My Life in Pictures

Sweet Sixties

Since I turned 60 this year, I couldn't resist taking a picture of this Swarovski window in Budapest.

Locks of Love

Along the Mala Strana, in Prague, you will see small locks on a bridge over the canal. Legend has it that when you find your true love, you carve your names on a lock, lock it onto the gate and throw the key in to the canal.

 

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Art Bazaar

I am very excited and honored to announce that I will be one of the artist participating in The Woman's Guild fundraiser for the Huntsville Museum of Art, "Art in Bloom". You can read all about this wonderful event and buy tickets here...

http://www.museumguild.org/events/art-in-bloom-2011

I will be selling books, altered wooden cubes, spoon art, and mixed media collages. If you are attending this event on April 19th, please stop by and say hello.

I will be donating this fabric book for a drawing as part of the fund raiser.

 

Lennon Wall

While in Prague, we visited the John Lennon Wall.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portion of the John Lennon Wall, 1993

2009

The Lennon Wall or John Lennon Wall, is a wall in Prague, Czech Republic. Once a normal wall, since the 1980s it has been filled with John Lennon-inspired graffiti and pieces of lyrics from Beatles songs.

In 1988, the wall was a source of irritation for the communist regime of Gustáv Husák. Young Czechs would write grievances on the wall and in a report of the time this led to a clash between hundreds of students and security police on the nearby Charles Bridge. The movement these students followed was described ironically as "Lennonism" and Czech authorities described these people variously as alcoholics, mentally deranged, sociopathic, and agents of Western capitalism.

The wall continuously undergoes change and the original portrait of Lennon is long lost under layers of new paint. Even when the wall was repainted by some authorities, on the second day it was again full of poems and flowers. Today, the wall represents a symbol of youth ideals such as love and peace.

The wall is owned by the Knights of Malta, who allowed the graffiti to continue on the wall, and is located at Velkopřevorské náměstí (Grand Priory Square), Malá Strana.

Here are some of my photo's...

Just Us Girls

Pictures from Andi

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Happy Easter

Me & The Girls

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Budapest & Prague

I just got back from a wonderful vacation with my girlfriends, Andi, Darya and Pam. The spring markets were up, the weather was beautiful, flowers were blooming and all the windows were decorated for Easter. I took over 1,700 photo's. Thought I would share just a few and wish everyone a Happy Easter.

Zentangle

I took my first Zentangle class yesterday and loved it. If you live in Huntsville or Madison, AL and you have the desire to learn this unique art form, you must take a class from Paula Dickerhoff. She is a Certified Zentangle Instructor, a great teacher and you will have lots of fun. Check out her beautiful work and her teaching schedule here,  http://www.wannatangle.com/ 

Thanks Paula, I'm hooked!

 

Communing With Nature

Photo's from our nature walk yesterday.