drinkable riot Riotous chamomile with its tall stalks, tiny daisy heads moving to wind’s (uneven) rhythm makes me smile; as it delights me to see my tea free in the wild.

POPO Playtime! POPO has returned the artist to her studio, a 4’ x 2’ foldout table with floor space to stack boxes of magazine, coffee table books, and pattern sample cutouts. TV trays hold implements: paper cutter, paint, brushes, glue, acrylic finishers, envelopes, bits & scraps, who’ve been waiting to come out and play!

Turning it Up May was June June was July What will we get this month? For sixty plus years A/C was optional. Now it keeps us alive. With cars going electric, where will energy sprout as we frogs in the pot begin to boil?

Extreme Moderation Summer and winter extremes, their domains of life and death; where only hardy dare tread, watched through windows instead. It is in freedom of spring and fall where moderation gives its all that we step out and call Nature our friend.