jaeleslie

Yesterday we went on the "Better Lawns and Gutters Tour" sponsored by the Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission, Healthy Lawn Team, Audubon Society, and UW Arboretum. We made it to nine of the twenty sites listed in four hours. ( Read more... )

On abandoned farmsteads you can find bits of tulip plantings, or daylilies, or crabapples, mixed in happily enough with the natives. But the exotic invaders are here now, including the highly successful dandelions, so we have to work out how to live with them.

Finally I have scanned most of the rest of my scrap book from last year's calligraphy conference. After I sewed it together last summer it actually took me several more months, up to about New Year's, to finish it. It contains a miscellany of poems and fragments by Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Tolkien, myself and others. The album of pages I have uploaded to Yahoo does not include a few page spreads that were Left Intentionally Blank or had only some collaged clipping from another artist. The show goes on for 28 page spreads after the cover:

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/jaeleslie/lst?.view=t&.dir=/Scrap+Book

Overall size of the book is about 6" x 4-1/2" x 3/4", six signatures stitched together with coptic stitch. I could make a catalog of all the media used, but it was a working studio notebook so the bits are extremely various. Ask if you have any questions about it!