Brown Pelicans and Black Skimmers on the beach from the storm…

Beautiful Brown Pelicans could be seen on the coast of Santa Barbara this week as many were disoriented from the storm and hungry. Here are a couple of shots from the day. See the rest on flickR.

Brown Pelican

Black Skimmer

mOsaic workshop in wOnder valley

Please join us for an inspirational weekend on April 3rd and 4th at the Tile House in wOnder valley, California just 2.5 hours from Los Angeles, Vegas or San Diego. Perry Hoffman will be giving a mosaic workshop, starting the morning right with Felicia Tomasko teaching yoga classes and serving us Ayruvedic meals. Two nights lodging + ayruvedic meals + yoga + mosaic workshop for $535 or $950 a couple. TREAT YOURSELF… more information? email me at raven9@cox.net You can also just sign up for the mosaic workshop for $150.

The 34th Latitude, ƒrom wOnder valley to Santa Barbara

The 34th latitude stretches from the o©ean to the desert in Caliƒornia. I have been extremely blessed to experience the first part of the month in the desert and watching sunsets like this every night. Now back on the coast as El Niño hits, wrecking havoc on our beaches with debris and toXins from the land. The chocolate color is from the soil I believe. Anyway, much turbulence and necessary water for all the gardens on the 34 line.

wOnder valley sunset January 2010

Chocolate waters, Hendry's Beach January 18, 2010

2010… a new yea®

The first SEVENTEEN days of 2010 were spent in the desert, in wOnder valley smashing & breaking tiles and continuing work on the living room at the eL paseo residence. Lenore came out for a few days to help and earned the title of Butter Queen as she steadƒastly applied the mastic to the tiles and handed them to me in expedient fashion !!! I am very grateful for Lenore’s assistance, cooperation, music and energy she brought to the desert. I took her to one of my “secret” desert bone yards filled with rusty tin cans, Bauer and Fiesta pottery and debris. It was there in the pottery vortex that she spied the bottom of a glass jug with the words, WHITE MAGIC emßossed. Soon to find it’s place on the wall of The Tile House in wOnder valley.

photo courtesy oƒ Lenore Fromm

photo courtesy oƒ Lenore Fromm

white magic

Buddha wall in progress

pottery vortex

Native Tile with one BJ Duke roadrunner and red stained glass window

©ommon YellOw Thrøat, Ruby ©røwned Kinglet & Ja¥s øn the ©øast

During a beautiƒul morning walk between rains and big, billowy clouds, many birds could be heard chirping and chattering on the Douglas Family Preserve above the Pa©iƒic O©eAn.

Common Yellow Throat

Ruby Crowned Kinglet

Scrub Jay

Yea® eN∂ phOtog®Aphi© o®ganiZation

December is a likely to time to reorganize and reassess. I am happy to announce that I have finally uploaded a good and sturdy quantity of my high resolution images to flick® … so they can be stored safely on their servers as well as on my external drives and be viewed by YOU, the viewer. There is a new homestead cabin set. The bird set has the most images at 52. A small but sweet wOnder valley set, one for the dogs, reptiles, insects and more. This has been a LONG time coming so please peruse and enjoy and always feel free to leave a comment You can just click HERE for the page that holds all the sets. Also many ƒresh new images…

New ©ormorant Photos on ƒli©k®

I knew where they were perching on the beach. Saw them ƒor several days. Went looking today when the sun came out in this otherwise dreary and gray day, and ƒound them all basking in the sun at the beach. Always loved cormorants !! But before I even left the house this morning I snapped this hummingbird who had landed on our lights outside. Love!!! magically recorded days!!! Happy Holidays!!! Say “peace on earth” like you mean it!!! and What does that ƒeel like? p e a c e … and it’s raining now… To see the rest of the photos click HERE.

Anna's Hummingbird

Cormorant

New ceramics

Cone 5 new clay… New feet.

Homestead Cabins November

Homestead Cabin wOnder valley

The Pink Cabin in wOnder valley

wOnder valley homestead cabin

wOnder valley 2009 November

 

cabin, cabin, all fall down...

phOto

The store, Random in Santa Barbara