Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour

On Sunday, October 18, I will be participating in the Arroyo Arts Collective 15th Annual Discovery Tour. I will be showing some of my recent mixed media pieces and a few surprises at Suzanne Siegel's home at 4563 Marmion Way in Highland Park, from 10 to 6. For more information on the Tour, visit the Arroyo Arts Collective website. If you would like to see examples of my work online, please visit my website. (Both links are listed on the right of this page.) The Tour is always an adventure, but if you don't have time for the whole thing, please feel free anyway to drop by Suzanne's to say hello.

Buddha garden design project

I have been working for a number of months on a garden design project for a client who wanted a steep slope outside her dining room windows to be turned into a garden. The garden has finally been planted, though there are still some details to be taken care of -- filling the pot with white roses, weather treating the bronze Buddha statue, and letting the plants take hold. I have been documenting the project all along -- here are some photos --

Before -- showing the rampant ivy, weeds and sprinkler pipe:



After -- a close-up of the Buddha on its stone platform surrounded by succulents and groundcovers.

A song from Grease

For most of September and October, Olivia was living and breathing "Grease" -- her first musical (she was stage manager). The girls did a very professional job with the show, and the music stays in your head for days. Here is one of the songs I liked best from the production.