Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Thank you to  Backbone Mountain Review for publishing me again this year!! I will post the 2 pieces below... with some author's notes.  An honor!!!


Alberta
You rest
wan upon the pillow
scent of
some  past fragrant peach
lingering over the eiderdown
old skin in soft focus
afternoon light
of the soul.


Stream Waders

Hear below the
waterline
the language of little
green muddy things
whose bubbles break surface
in small redundant pops.
A stone shifts, a lure lodged.
A branch deep down hides carp,
trout dozing
in primordial peace.

ALBERTA is in memory of my Grandmother on my paternal side.  Her name was Alberta...and just for the record, tonight, Sept. 12, 2012, did I first realize the subliminal reference to peaches of the same appellation.  The poem has been brewing for a while.

Stream Waders recalls time spent on the Yough River. (Youghiogheny) Garrett County, MD.  Being an outside gal, I love to see the small, the fleeting moment...the moments lost becasue Nature is always in transition.
 

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

FROM THE CUMBERLAND TIMES NEWS SEPT. 11, 2012 
Local residents participate in a Meet an Artist, Make a Masterpiece session Sunday afternoon, sponsored by the Evergreen Heritage Center in Mount Savage owned by Janice Keene of Frostburg. The painting workshop featured artist M.C. Pratt of Triskele Studios in Frostburg, who introduced participants to oil painting with a natural focus. From front to back are Iris Halmos, Nicole Halmos, Dennis Sherald and Shirley Giarritta, all of Cumberland.

Monday, September 10, 2012

A shot of participants from Wine and Wonder Workshop at the Evergreen Heritage Center, held on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012.  This was the first of a series of visual arts workshops planned for Evergreen.  While not much wine was flowing, all painters had a productive afternoon and enjoyed a beautiful early fall afternoon in the mountains and on the grounds of EHC in Mt.Savage, MD.
From the left, back to front...standing - Janice Keene, Director.  Participants Jeanne Cordts, Diane Engle, Egan S. Pratt. Far corner top right - Jane N. Madden