Pressed Flowers – Pressing the “Odd” Item, Part I
Birch trees shed their bark. I often find large swathes of it on the ground, and small bits peeling off of the trees that line the creek near my home. The piece in the photograph above is large and...
View ArticlePressed Flowers – Pressing the “Odd” Item, Part IV
At first glance, the tangle of branching plant material in the photograph resembles deciduous tree twigs after they have lost their leaves in Autumn. In reality, the pressed plant material is seaweed,...
View ArticlePlace and Pressed Flowers – Pressing the Odd Item/Block Island Day 4
Clayhead Beach on Block Island is probably my favorite beach. This past winter, storms and currents deposited extra sand on the shoreline. The stretch of sand along Clayhead has always been...
View ArticlePlace and Play – Block Island Day 5
I am not much of a beach bather, but I am an absolutely avid beachcomber. The evidence sits on shelves in my garage. Stacked in boxes and bins are hundreds of pieces of driftwood, seashells, sea glass...
View ArticlePressed Flowers – Cutting Autumn Leaves
Autumn leaves are one of the easiest pieces of foliage to press. Collect them when dry, put each between the pages of a book, and usually in less than a week they are ready to use. The colors dull and...
View ArticlePrayer & Pressed Flowers – The Prayer Flag Project
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” James 5:16 I recently participated in...
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