This Spring, after the snows melted, I found a dried tomatillo husk by the wooded ravine, a remnant of last year's garden. I brought the flimsy husk inside and it…

Worker Series #1 Craig Frazier - Illustrator and Storyteller from Jeff Hurn on Vimeo. Great video about illustrator Craig Frazier's process by Jeff Hurn. I've always enjoyed the simplicity and…

Dan Devening spoke about his art and process at the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois yesterday, and I was inspired by his abstract art, and especially by his thoughtful…

"There are hundreds — no, countless ways to kneel and kiss the ground." —Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as Spiritual Practice The title of the above book,…

"Whereas in science one aspires to the simplest explanation of the phenomenon under scrutiny, the whole point of art and the Humanities is to open our minds to more alternatives…

From my notebooks, a Sabbath poem by Wendell Berry: When we convene again to understand the world, the first speaker will again point silently out the window at the hillside…

Ellen Meloy was a naturalist, writer and river-runner. A bit of her writing, a phrase, lingers in my mind: “... to reclaim daily the notion of layered miracles.” (Eating Stone, p.…

A really inspiring story of pursuing your passion and overcoming some big obstacles in life.

Spring beauties in our woods. Back several years, I didn't notice Spring flowers and did not care one bit about them. Now, with age, I guess, and with the understanding…

Inspired this morning by a 2006 article on dwell.com. As Annie Dilliard says, "We can live any way we want." *** Excerpts from the article (photos by Cornelius Scriba): “Our…

Glancing through sketch/notebooks, two days before the winter solstice — when the days start getting longer, longer, but so slowly at first — I found this excerpt from Mary Oliver's…

Very cool and inspiring. From the 2005 Seattle Flower & Garden Show. Found at gardenweb.com at this thread.

Austin Kleon's little black book, "Steal Like An Artist," hit the New York Times bestsellers list a few months ago. The book was based on a talk he gave, and…

Great site for contemporary art at a reasonable price.

We're intrigued by the blend of recycled and new materials in Megan Lea's backyard garden house, discovered in the inhabitat.com post from 2011, "Rustic and Beautiful Backyard Micro-House is Built from…

I gravitate toward the abstract, toward investigations of form and color, and I enjoy Jennifer Sanchez's work a lot. Her work has vibrancy, energy, and inventiveness to it. Line —…

A site we love is inhabitat, where we discovered this beautiful, made-from-reclaimed-materials cabin, inspired by Shinto architecture. Something like this cabin would look perfect on the back hill. View more…