Daily Notes - June 1st

I found a stack of Art magazines in the discard pile at the library.  In one of them this image of an eye.  I have been struggling with Jude's class.  Not having a Spirit Animal to put on cloth like Jude's beasts.  But wanting an eye.  Here a painter added an eye to an abstract painting.  I am now wondering about making an abstract patchwork surface and working on making an eye--that is there and not there.   I tore out about 30 images.  I will tuck them into my envelope of images and sort thru them as needed.

I thought of the time spent with scissors and pages of art  as being my Artist Date for this week.
I did drive to Staples.  Our store is now situated in a mostly vacant block of empty stores.  I purchased two new notebooks for Morning Pages.  I did buy the wrong size.  The ones I bought are larger than the $2 one I got at Goodwill (just as I needed a new book)  And these cost $12 each.  But the pages are smooth.  And I bought a dozen Pilot pens.  I like writing with them.  So, I am stocked up for the summer and perhaps to my birthday.  Looks like a spiral notebook lasts one and a half months.  I will keep writing in the hopes that someday I write something life changing.

We cut the grass again yesterday afternoon.  I had to do my strips the opposite way.  Instead of sideways on the hill, I had to go straight up and down.  I mostly worried about slipping and sliding into the mower or tipping it over.  As ever, the grass looked amazing when we finished.  I  dusted my rose bushes with insect powder and copper dust.  Then raced into the house to take a shower and put my clothing in the washer.  Last summer the deer ate all the roses.  In previous years the roses were covered in a thick layer or moving beetles.  Japanese.  No roses.  The copper dust should work to keep off the beetles.  But the deer are another story.  I may buy some small aluminum foil tart pans and tie them to the sticks surrounding the roses.  On string.  So they wave and move in the breeze and perhaps scare the deer away.

In case I forgot, this year I have the cloth attached to the fencing around the garden-on the side where I grow blueberries.  It's billowing and floating.  And we haven't been visited by deer yet this year.  I could do the same by the roses.  Billowing and floating cloth.  Long thin prayer flags.

One of my roses is an Austin.  William Shakespeare.  Lovely roses.

The peonies are growing taller each passing day.  Getting ready for their big explosion fo flowers in June.  Just before it rains and shatters them.  It looks like today will be a miserable day.  Cloudy and dismal.  I don't know if it will rain.  There will certainly be loads of mosquitos on the walk. I still have my winter corduroy pants and sweaters in the closet.  And my summer clothing.  It's a day by day thing deciding what season it will be today.

Riley and G slept well last night. I did not.