MAM Day X Water Water Everywhere!

The prompt for the day today was rivers but I am broadening it to “water” because it is that time of year. The earth (at least in Vermont) is swelling, running, bursting with water, giving birth to Spring.

Rivers

The Winooski viewed from the State Street Bridge in Montpelier

Waterfalls

Definitely not in Vermont. Costa Rica. Click on it to see and hear the rushing waters

Reflections in Water

Cloud reflection in an East Montpelier pond

Reflection of rocks in the Adamant Quarry

I’m always intrigued by reflections in puddles.

Reflection of trees and sky in a puddle. This one was taken on a trail in Japan

Tree reflection in a rut on Sodom Pond road

More reflections in ponds

A little bit of blue sky reflected in the melting ice on Sodom Pondn

I’m feeling a bit waterlogged…how about you?

Just one more peaceful water scene to send me off to sleep.

May visions of water lull you to sleep

MAM Day IX Composition, Decomposition

This is an announcement of an upcoming Adamant Co-op Gallery show, titled Composition, Decomposition in which I have a few pieces:

“We plan, arrange, construct, compose; create order for the eye, the ear, the life. Yet nothing lasts forever. Breakdown is inevitable — sometimes random, sometimes planned.

Our spring exhibit at the Adamant Co-op Gallery considers Composition and Decomposition through music, painting, assemblage, photography, collage, and interactive and still life installations. By putting these works in conversation with each other, we hope to enhance viewers’ appreciation of the specific works and artwork in general.

Work by Liz Benjamin • Heidi Broner • Paul Cate • Joni Clemons • Ruth Coppersmith • Cathleen Daley • Lois Eby • Karen Kane • Janet MacLeod • Susan Bull Riley • John Snell • Kep Taylor • Dan Thorington

Exhibit dates are March 15 – April 15, with an opening reception onSaturday, March 21, 1-3pm.

** SPECIAL EVENT: Liz Benjamin will present a professional recording of GONE, GONE, her original composition for viola and piano, at 1:45 at the opening reception **

We hope you can join us!

All our best from the gallery,

Janet MacLeod, Joni Clemons, Karen Kane”

Here are a few pieces of my art work that will be in the Adamant gallery “Composition, Decomposition” show.

Hope maybe some of you locals will stop by to see the show. For the rest of you here’s a glimpse of the pieces I will have in the show with titles and descriptions:

Loss of Flight

Butterfly wings found on Sodom Pond Road nested in a ceramic bowl covered with a glass plate (to protect them from my cat.)

Wedding Remnants

This assemblage represents remnants of a Jewish wedding.
The dried flower the memory of joy and beauty now faded; the broken glass a symbol of the traditional end to a Jewish wedding where a wineglass is stepped on and crushed. This act has many possible meanings: It signifies endings and new beginnings; the balancing of immense joy with deep solemnity; a reminder of the fragility of life and relationships.
The ribbon could be a piece of the wedding chuppah (canopy). All is enclosed in a glass case protected but still ephemeral.

What Remains

This is an assemblage of bits and pieces of natural objects left on the earth after they have begun to decompose – eggshells, seaweed, moss, a snakeskin, and a bat skeleton, all in a belljar.
A somewhat apocalyptic vision.

Here is another bat composition not in the show.

And another Decomposition/Composition

Photo of a burnt out tractor in my neighbor’s yard transformed into a drawing of a crab. Wonder what the little crab in the corner thinks…

That’s all for now. Think I’ll compose myself to sleep.💤

MAM Day VIII International Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day so I’m thinking of all the girls and women who were and are, an important part of my life. Some are family, some friends, some mentors and guides, some mentees, some well known in the world. I am grateful to all for shaping who I am today.

Here is a photo collage of just a few of them.

Hope this will encourage you to think of all the important women in your life and give them thanks.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY,

MAM Day VII

Riffs on the prompt for the day – cats

My affectionate but mischievous kitty Swee’pea

Cats everywhere!

Images of cats

Cat pillow in back of Bread and Puppet bus

Sometimes I think of my cat as a sphinx

A birthday card for a friend who loves cats

Remember those three cats in the photo from Montreal? The rainbow photo is one I took in East Montpelier

So many words start with cat – some have to do with cats: catfish, cattails, catwalk, catnip, catnap, catbird, catcall, catfight, catfooted, caterwaul, and of course catamount…and some have nothing whatsoever to do with felines: catalyst, cataract, category, cataclysmic, catatonic, catamaran, catalpa, catalog…oh I could go on and on but I’ll stop with catsup and catapult myself to bed hopefully for more than just a catnap.

Night night all. Sleep tight💤

MAM DAY VI addendum and day off

Today is my one day a week MAM day off

But a couple of things from yesterday’s post that didn’t get in so I’m trying again. Wish me luck.

Now some sounds of Spring

A very poor recording I made…hope I can get it to work technically so you can hear it. If not I’ll give up on this one. If you can hear it see if you can recognize the sounds – it starts with Spring rain and ends with drops in the bucket, with some bird and frog sounds in between.

Shabbat Shalom, wishing you a peaceful Shabbat

MAM Day V

The prompt today was “melting” but I prefer “Spring Thaw”

Spring is right around the corner! Let’s hear a few snippets and take a few glimpses of it.

Daffodils poking up through the snow. My front path in March last year

March sun on muddy Adamant Road. Not my favorite thing about Spring (I mean the muddy roads not the sun).

Some very poorly recorded sounds of Spring. See if you can recognize some of them. The recording starts with rain and ends with a drop in the bucket, with some frogs and birds in between..

Poor things! Too often they’re casualties of road traffic..

Frogs legs, a French delicacy? Oh YUK! Oddly they remind me of the Radio City Rockettes

Okay Ruth, pretty weird comparison

Enough with the frogs, let’s end with some rousing music – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – Spring…

https://archive.org/details/lp_the-four-seasons_antonio-vivaldi_2

Sweet dreams of Spring

MAM Day IV

Well the prompt for today was “Full Moon” I revised it a bit to just “Moon”. You will see why in a moment.

First just a few moody moon photos:

Moon over Haneda airport in Japan while coming in for a landing

Photo collage with assemblage of dead frog dancing in the moonlight – some kind of strange fairytale?

As you can tell I like taking pictures of moons…

Okay that’s enough mooning over moons. I’m getting sleepy.

It never worked for me to try to go to sleep by counting sheep…maybe I’d do better imagining myself sleeping in the cradle of a crescent moon.

Good night now…💤

MAM Day II

Happy Purim!

Purim is the holiday when you are supposed to be joyful. Also you are supposed to get so drunk that you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys…And you are supposed to tell the story of queen Esther.

Have you had enough to drink so you can’t tell?

Which is the good guy, which is the bad? This is from a shadow puppet show I made of the Purim story.

BaaBaa and I are all dressed up and ready to celebrate

Enjoy! And tune in tomorrow.

MAM Day I (Flight)

My dear sponsors welcome to day one of the 2026 March Arts Marathon. We’re getting off to a flying start! (The prompt for today was “Flight”).

For those of you who were sponsors in previous years but haven’t made a donation for this year and would like to please let me know and I’ll send you a link. If you do not want to receive these posts let me know that too and I will take your email off my list. Thanks,

BaaBaa is flying over Sodom Pond on a great blue heron and dreaming of basking in the sun in Culebra

For those who haven’t been introduced… BaaBaa is my loyal companion. They always were a big fan of Snoopy the Red Baron so I thought I’d give them this role in my post.

Here is how I put this image together (it’s a little crude because I don’t have fancy editing tools so I just make do with what I’ve got):

Flight helmet and goggles make BaaBaa feel like a real pilot

Whenever I want to meditate on my most peaceful memory I imagine myself in Culebra. How I wish I were there now!

This is a colored pencil drawing I made of a great blue heron

So there you have it. Enjoy…until tomorrow.

Day Four

Well now it’s April first. Happy April Fools Day? One of my very favorite holidays. We’re getting a little more of a handle on this Coronavirus thing – what it is, what it might do to us. Scary!

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