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Art and Friends

with neither rhyme nor reason

a sort of blog

Mar 12
1 min

Day 353

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Sam Baker

Mar 11
1 min

Day 352

Do one thing every day that scares you. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Sam Baker

Mar 10
1 min

Day 351

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. -Mary Oliver

Sam Baker

Mar 9
1 min

Day 350

something about a tree is always about a dream

Sam Baker

Mar 8
1 min

Day. 349

Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside is each of us. -Mary Oliver

Sam Baker

Mar 8
1 min

Day 348

A platoon of wild turkey pause beneath my feeders. They take the drop spilled there by careless cardinals and indifferent finches black...

Sam Baker

Mar 6
1 min

Day 347

mesquite limbs are loaded with cardinals today females and males perched against a deep blue sky males a bright cad red females a more...

Sam Baker

Mar 5
1 min

Day 346

So I waited, in my corridor. I listened for the sea To call me. I knew that, somewhere outside, the horse Stood saddled, browsing in...

Sam Baker

Mar 4
1 min

Day345

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees....

Sam Baker

Mar 3
1 min

Day 344

Snow moon

Sam Baker

Mar 2
1 min

Day 343

cold thorns

Sam Baker

Mar 1
1 min

Day 342

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. -Annie Dillard

Sam Baker

Feb 28
1 min

Day 341

How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...

Sam Baker

Feb 26
1 min

Day 339

Rocks and thorns

Sam Baker

Feb 25
1 min

Day 338

casual conversation over dinner

Sam Baker

Feb 24
1 min

Day 337

A scattering of clouds

Sam Baker

Feb 23
1 min

Day 336

A scattering of birds and deer

Sam Baker

Feb 22
1 min

Day 335

A tree is complex

Sam Baker

Feb 21
1 min

Day 334

The great thaw. prickly pear grows on an oak tree. yesterday as the world de iced.

Sam Baker

Feb 20
1 min

Day 333

The Bustle in a House (1108) The Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted opon Earth – The Sweeping up the Heart And...

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