… a detail of a treasured cloth embroidered by husband’s aunt many years ago

It’s been a very busy week getting started in the studio, doing a bit of of fall gardening between showers, and now preparing a little birthday celebration for our ‘English’ daughter tomorrow. Then suddenly Monday will be here and the day we take her and our dear granddaughters to the airport for their flight home to London. They’ve been here over two months but will not be coming home for Christmas this year for the first time ever. We’ll miss them. It will be so very quiet here.

or, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder…

Original photos were taken by husband, then much loved and played with by me!

Macro views of the tiles on top of a coffee table built by my husband over 40 years ago, weathered, much used and loved.

Edited March 10th, 2010: A few curious folk have asked for a description or photo of the table. I’m really enjoying the abstraction and designs that come out of seeing the macro images out of context, so I feel a wee reluctant to start showing off the furniture but here is a view. The colour of the tiles in this photo, taken under incandescent lights, is close to reality whereas the macro shots in sunlight gave forth amazing brilliant colours.

I look closely around home
I see with new eyes