the peaceful peacock

a soule­mama inspired post.

…at the loom…

Thanks for hang­ing in there while I’m get­ting a new round of techie stuff fig­ured out.  Cre­at­ing and design­ing a cus­tom web­site is no easy feat, espe­cially for some­one who didn’t even know how to use a dig­i­tal cam­era three years ago.  Iron­i­cally, the sim­plis­tic lay­out and easy-to-maneuver site is one of the most challenging […]

I sup­pose a few may be won­der­ing how my chal­lenge of the utmost kind is hold­ing up.
It’s chal­leng­ing.  And good.  And I’m hav­ing fun with it so far.
One of the ele­ments that I like about par­tic­i­pat­ing in some­thing like this is that it becomes sur­pris­ingly per­sonal.  I’m look­ing inside and out to dis­cover exactly what it is […]

This win­ter I have acquired a new friend.
Her name is Jas­mine Green.
She lives in a teapot, a cup, a jar, some­times an unbleached fil­ter.
But she’s always nearby.
She brings her friend Honey along too.
We have some good times.
She offers me a han­dle on the dif­fi­cult moments.
I often think of her in the mid­dle of the night and can’t wait […]

I take it back about not mak­ing any New Year’s Res­o­lu­tions.  The other day we were out play­ing under the blue­berry sky again and I stum­bled across a solu­tion that solved a lot more than my query about how to make the moun­tains look big­ger with my sim­ple camera…

Aim higher.

The win­ter lasts a long time in Mon­tana.
A looooooong time.
We are cur­rently in the throngs of Win­ter 2, the post-Christmas lull before the real deep-freeze mad­ness sets in.
This year we have been graced with plenty of still, blue skies and pre­co­cious black birds to waken our dreary eyes.  A refresh­ing prepa­ra­tion for our next sea­son.
Still Win­ter.
Hang […]

I can gen­er­ally tell how pro­duc­tive the day will turn out by 10am.  Psy­chic?  Nah.  It’s a sim­ple mat­ter of dis­ci­pline.  If I get myself in gear and do the major­ity of my “Daily Dis­ci­plines”, then I know I’ll have a pro­duc­tive day.  If I fal­ter and blow them off, then the day is already […]

So I’ve been plan­ning a small project for myself involv­ing a vari­ety of fab­rics, and just yes­ter­day I was think­ing, “Wow, I really wish I had some strips of lilac col­ored duiponi silk.  That would really pop with this silk vel­vet.”
This morn­ing I took the kid­dos for a stroll and hap­pened upon a yard sale…

and found […]

In her true style, Mon­tana has wel­comed the dawn of a new sea­son with a chris­ten­ing of snow.  This is a reg­u­lar event on this side of the Divide, even dur­ing Sum­mer Sol­stice.
It has often been said that those who live here are a tough breed.  Or crazy.  A bit of both is prob­a­bly most […]