Before the frosts began, we moved two plants from our herb table onto the porch, the lavendar and the parsley, placing them on the top of the radiator in the living room. Both promptly bloomed!
Postcard: Parsley Blooming Indoors
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Author Archives: Leslie Schultz
Reminder: If You Are Joining Us at Magers & Quinn on December 4…!
Susan Jaret McKinstry and I are excited to be sharing at reading at Magers and Quinn on December 4, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. We would love it if you could join us!
The reading is free, but the store recommends reserving your seat. To do that, use this EVENTS link!
Hope you to see you there! LESLIE
Small Comforts II
Taking Refuge in Small-Scale Creativity This Week
Color is medicine. This week, I am turning leftover bits of yarn into crazy socks. The quiet repetition of knitting is very soothing, and the random jolts of color–tiny choices from a limited palette–prevent boredom from setting in on these grey post-election days.
LESLIE
Point Arena Lighthouse, Labyrinth, and the National Art Line Project
Last August, in celebration of our anniversary, Tim and I traveled to California and Oregon. It was a many-faceted trip. We started in the Bay Area. After a live-changing lunch at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, we drove up the coast to spend a couple of nights at Point Arena Lighthouse. Why? My friend, Marilyn Larson, a labyrinth designer, collaborated with her friend, labyrinth designer Lea Goode-Harris, to create plans for a labyrinth for the Outdoor Museum at the lighthouse. (If you scroll down a bit, you can find information about this amazing site.) This outdoor artwork, installed to help encourage inner-and outer peace, is the western start (or terminus, depending on your orientation!) of a transnational line of such imaginative places that can all be found along the 39th parallel, including the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio and flowing to Cape May, New Jersey.
As you can imagine, I took lots and lots of photos. Tim also took a 360-degree short video of the labyrinth. Upon our return, Marilyn and Lea urged us to write a bit about our encounter. We did, and it can be found online: HERE is a link the an article Tim and I wrote.
And to learn more about the Art Line Project, HERE is the link. (Many thanks to Toby Evans of Sagebrush Exchange for her excellent summary of the Art Line Project.)
If you are ever near Point Arena, California, this is a delightful place to stay or to visit during a free hour.
LESLIE
