My Dog is a God

My dog, Harpo, looks like the Egyptian jackal God, Anubis. Harpo is a loyal companion, and a wonderful watch dog protector. She is very beautiful, athletic, with a shiny black coat. In some ways she is a very lucky dog. She is an inside and outside dog, coming and going, in and out, almost as she pleases. She chases deer. I think that it must be a thrill for her to make such a large animal jolt away. She loves to swim in the creek to cool off. She wishes that I would walk the woodland trails with her more often. The worst part of her life is that I sometimes go on trips for a few days, leaving her with an automatic feeder and water. She hates it when I leave. When I come back she is needs reassurance and attention for a while. She gets jealous when we have visitors and needs attention and treats. SHe never has to wear silly clothes, just a collar.

I would post a picture of her, but have lost my camera charger. I think that I have a good pix of her in my files, will look for it.

This picture is digital, photo shop. 2550 px x 3300px. Completed today. The Anubis image was a low rez, harvested from Bing and completely repainted digitally.

The background is a vintage picture of Florida magnolia trees. The photographer is A.T. Styles Burlington. I didnt do much alteration of the photo, just made repetitions of it and changed the color. I have magnolia trees in the woods.

Paris Courtyard

This is a digital collage of photos that I took in Paris. The gargoyles are fragments of old statues that were lined up on the floor of a covered walkway. The angel is holding garlands of flowers.

Paris Courtyard

A digital collage of photos that I took in Paris. The gargoyles were fragments of old statues, lined up on the floor of a covered walkway. The angel statue holds leaf garlands.

Tossled Tree

An impasto acrylic painting on canvas, 16"x24". Sold

Da Vinci on Stamps

From the series, da Vinci Goes Digital.

The Old Hotel, Part Seven, Rude Awakening

My earliest memory is set in Belle and Joe's dog trot log cabin. I remember floating out of the baby cradle. I had been in that constrictive human baby body for four long earth months. I wanted to return to my home of light. I escaped the tight flesh and moved about freely. The room flickered with oil lamps. I floated over my mother and her mother, sitting close to the cast iron wood burner. I saw Mama Gordon rocking in the nursing chair and Mother sitting in a straight wooden chair, beside her. Out the window I soared. Out to the night. Below me the ground glistened with moonlit frost.

Their front sides baked by the fire, while their back sides were cold. Belle Gordon drowsed while Victoria droned on about a dress that she was planning to sew. She had the Butterick pattern and a length of striped linen from the Woolsworth in Jackson. Belle snored once, then jerked abruptly alert. She went to the little crib in the far corner of the room, where new baby Jan slept. The child was as cold as ice and her breathing slow and shallow.

Returning to the nursing rocker and the small circle of wood heat, she clasped the fading infant to her love beating heart and wrapped herself and the babe in a wool shawl.

"Victoria, your baby is almost frozen to death. No, I will hold her, she will warm up soon."

I was joyous to be back to my true home. Vibrating to a symphony of light. Then after only an instant of peace, I was sucked back and anchored in that infant flesh cage. Waves of healing circled from my grandmother's heart. I was resigned to the body, and then, I glowed with Belle's love, and knew that I would be in that flesh vehicle for many Earth seasons.

Puzzled Child

Digital picture, created a few years ago. From the series, "Time and Space". The girl is my sister. The detail of her face was pulled from a photograph from about 1950. Father was stationed to a Air Force base in the north west. We lived in Maryland. Mother took her three daughters to Washington D.C. We toured ALL the national monuments in one day. This photo was taken at the end of the visit to our national capital. I love Kathi's two year old, pist off expression.

I scanned the snapshot. Pulled out the face. Integrated that into the puzzle pieces. Added a lotus and the Roman numeral clock numbers.

Have a fabulous day dahlin!