So my driving ritual for the last month or so is this: start the engine, accelerate away from the house, then olives accelerate and start hoping around. They fling themselves off the top of the car as I drive down the road (I'm talking maybe 3 or 4 at a time, but as I write this I feel guilty now. I'm an olive litterer). My fantasy is that they are planting themselves. Soon there will be baby olive trees sprouting up all over. In years to come when I drive away from the house, I'll be driving through olive groves that my car helped plant. Did I mention that I've been on functioning on hyper-drive? That goes for my mind too.
Winter's coming and a lot of garden projects were waiting for the right confluence of planets to line up and give the word go. Projects like organizing the sheds, building a bench (my new photo shoot location) and laying a patio. All projects are ultimately making it a lot easier to work with flowers and give workshops at my home studio.
Ah yes, the flowers. My upcoming workshop at College of Marin is called Celebration of Fall. We'll be working with metal pin frogs in pedestal type vases to make a tall arrangement for your mantle or sideboard or a shorter one for the table. This is how you use heavy branches in shallow containers. This is how you keep all the buggers in place. Working on this type of arrangement really helps work on composition, color and movement in a big way.
Class ID 664
November 14
Time 10-12 PM
Location College of Marin, Fine Arts 312
Fee $79.
What to bring: see course listing.
http://marincommunityed.augusoft.net/
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