Still creating pottery

A shapely mug with a shapley damsel resting upon it...an artist's painting of Monarch butterfly.

A slightly larger size mug with a Monarch-like painting...showing both sets of wings.

To see how I paint my Monarch-like butterflies, check here.  I don't claim these are exactly right renditions of Monarchs, it's hard enough to just put all that glaze into details that are close.
Maybe with more practice I'll get closer to our almost non-existant Monarchs!

First version of these mugs looked like this.

Thought for the day (true even more so for butterflies!)

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

I do depend on the internet

Today the cable company will turn off my internet where I've been living for 6 years...and then connect me at my new apartment...hopefully!

Without this great cable provider, whose cost I think of as exorbitant, I'd not be able to share and save my story with you...and pictures!

And I'd not be able to click on the several dozen sites that I like to read where other's post the same about themselves.

And the biggest change isn't just the physical place where I'll reside, but the added service and entertainment which I'm jumping back into...perhaps at the wrong time in news cycles.  I'm going to have TV service again as well. 

I remember turning it off in July 2 years ago, and being somewhat surprised how much music I started listening to, rather than having to mute commercials all the time on programs that I was watching.  I certainly have enjoyed streaming various things that have been available on my computer.  Thank heaven.

I no longer listen to CD's much at all, because I have thousands of radio stations streaming live on my choices of genres over the computer...thanks to iTunes.

But I am saving enough money from my rent that I think I can afford to watch a limited amount of TV now...both psychically and economically.  I'll try to protect my psychic from the deluge.  I can always cancel again if I need to.

Thought for today:

And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love.

William Blake

 

Boxes

I  lied on my last post.  Here is what I'm looking at until Sat. when everything is finally moved over to the new (to me) apartment!

And it's been refurbished completely, so this is the new kitchen...before I move all my stuff in.

I say I, but it sure is taking lots of friends and one son is even planning for the big day to help as well...thank you in advance to all of the "Moving Barbara Crew!"

PS, I'm moving this week, so it may take longer than usual for your comments to be posted!

Thought for today:

We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Howard Zinn