Celebrating Garden Blooms: English Daisy

At the moment at Nayland Farm there are some white low-lying daisy’s carpeting the path around our field. You hate to walk for fear of squishing them. But to date, I haven’t seen one of these RED English daisies in Suffolk. 

Don’t you worry, though, I will keep my eyes peeled. 

Hyacinths are long gone in Blighty and the delphiniums need staking, but that will have to wait.  I am on a flight to Maine to help another gardener to get her garden going! 

Huge thanks to Cascadia Artist, as ever

Calla Calla Calla

 What would your chant be if you wanted to drive away harsh winter?  I’m not saying that was Gerda’s intention, but repeat the name of most flowers three times and  if you are anything like me you will begin to feel hopeful. 

I love those stamps and the image of the snow or plaster or dried paint that feels like an arial view,  it’s a great contrast and you have two sides of the seasons, for sure! And the light of the image that evokes deepest winter is reflective and refractive, so beautiful and encouraging for me. 

Thank you Gerda, sending you virtual greetings from a flight from the UK to the US!   I keep meaning to send you something FEMAIL. 

Mail Art Perfect

The Artist in Seine is the master of evoking something more with  few recycled bits. Here we have Napoleon, the fashion industry and the impressionists rolled into on. A.I.S. makes me want to fall in love on a Parisienne street, to lurk on the Rue..  to see the glamorous cavort. Oh to be anything but an American living the England!

Thanks for the deluge of sentiment! And it is Mail Art perfect!

The Vampire Rhino Handler

Before the days of the internet, when you only had the nightly news, the dictionary, your teachers and an encyclopaedia if this card had come across my doormat I would have scratched my head and felt a teeny weeny bit stupid.  Instead I am on an internet-free airplane typing with the help of an overhead lightbulb.

I know Dada Trumph Motors is on a crusade to enlighten the world and Cascadia’s wonderful series on American Oligarchs is changing the way this mail artist uses the word ‘Oligarch’ and classifies the rich and famous . 

Is that CT Chew, the retired mail artist in jungle mode, ready for handling? Is a 

Rhino a RINO? Is extinction preferable to over-population? 

Thee re a few of my questions at 36,000 feet.

Thank you Cascadia! I love the Color and the image and that lunar New Year stamp is eye-popping!  

A maiden voyage and pussy willows

Delighted to receive Mailart from a ’femail’ Donna MacPherson who has spread some spring cheer  in an original print card she was inspired to make  when she found some pussy willows in the park. 

Not sure if you can tell, but I am writing from airplane seat #30 on my way to the states. I have been rushed off my feet so am carrying the pile of mail art I have accrued to blog and hopefully to respond to.  I feel terrible! Especially about someone who was so generous to someone she trusted and had never met. 

Rest assured I appreciate your mail ART! I will bring it across the pond and archive it at the Nayland Farm mail art site, but in the meantime,I am enjoying it on a darkened plane.

I sure hope it isn’t too cold in Maine (not too far from Canada)  but if it is that will be an excuse to get to work on some return mail art!

Thank you!

The Language of Flowers

I have already printed off a set of these to bedeck my next series of mailings! When the US postal service produces flower stamps, I buy my fair share. I also love bees and birds. Nature, attending to it and having it around me, well it's key. So, seeds from Cascadia to plant here. a highpoint and receiving them is now part of the rythmn of my year.  Now to find the time to get them into a seed bed!

Love the poem on a postcard - its aesthetic and the words.

The precision with which Cascadia makes this mailing is fabulous.  A few years ago in the seeds Cascadiasent me some siberian wallflower seeds in the mix.  They bloomed for months and the scent was irresistible.  Using jack's key, I figured out what they were and about two years later I ordered some of my own. Now I have many many siberian wallflower plants and they appear in my paintings often!

                                        

Thank you SO much!