Cali Finds

Just a smattering of finds from the most recent California trip to share – some creepy, some pretty and some that made me long for fall. It was chilly there and made we want to pull out sweaters and boots. Then I returned home to 100 degrees. Damn Phoenix in September!

These bubble gum looking creatures were washed up all over the beach in Summerland, CA. The short one couldn't stop touching them.

Another bubble gum looking creature

View from Mannhattan Beach

View from Manhattan Beach

A gate in Rancho Mirage

A tree in Grover Beach Park in the fog

Grover Beach Flowers

Longing for fall - a leaf in Grover Beach Park

Grover Beach Flowers in the fog - it was only 59 degrees

Grover Beach Flowers

Natural Beach Sculpture - found

September 19, 2009labfive Leave a comment

mural of words and images

I created a paneled mural of words and images for the Phoenix Office of Arts and Cultures’ artSpace program. This mural was requested to provide a small bite of the activities that the POAC artSpace program offers. It will live at the Arizona Department of Education office as they are the funders of the artSpace program. POAC artSpace provides kids access to the Arts in an after-school setting. I worked with a gardening and growing theme using trees, flowers, butterflies, a wheelbarrow and seed packets. The lines of the tree trunk and branches as well as the flower stems are made by using words from poetry written by students participating in the artSpace programs. The leaves and butterflies are created out of photos of kids in the program and images of their artwork.

Tree with "photo leaves" of program activities

Flags of program sponsors

Wheelbarrow with "seed packets" spilling out with names of program providers on them

Title flag

Program name - artSpace as the sun

Text - kids poetry as flower stems

Photo butterfly

Close-up of tree "photo leaves"

September 6, 2009labfive Leave a comment

cactus flowers

Today is hot. Arizona desert hot. The reward for tolerating this heat you ask? Looking out onto the back yard at a very happy cactus if full bloom announcing it’s love for this heat. From inside, with the air conditioning running and fans in every room I will take this sunny, happy sign of summer. It is so much better then muggy with a side of mosquitoes. We’ll just wait to BBQ until after the sun goes down.

Cactus flower in bloom - close up

Cactus flower

Cactus flowers

July 4, 2009labfive Leave a comment

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mural of words and images

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