Nuremberg Chronicles Art Wood Cuts Book

I have always admired wood block prints. I dream about carving out my own art by a cozy wood fire with a love for art fueling me late into the night by candlelight. Every night. It seems like such a romantic form of art/illustration. With the finding of a Nuremberg Chronicles book published in 1493 just recently in Utah, I am in awe all over again. Do you think anyone would notice if I pulled a loose barn board off and got a knife and started carving intricate swirls for wind, roses, and sunshine, which is also what I dream about the rest of the time?

From what I understand each print was from a wood cut in this book. All 1,809 illustrations. Some illustrations were hand watercolored. We are still romancing wood cuts after all of these years and rightly so.

Farming A Life and Organic Produce

Author Kristin with husband, Mark Kimball

Read this book and you will think differently about hard work, dirt, and farming. You'll be willing to spend your savings on horses, cattle, pigs, and milk cows. You will have found the zest of life right under your fingertips, dirt. You work for it and it pays great rewards back to you! Hard work is a tonic! Who needs much sleep? Especially when you are reading about someone else's bone tired labors and the joys that go with it.

This book redefines what success and beauty mean. Kristin Kimball makes fun of herself and her ideas of a good life before she turned farmer. We really like her husband and smile knowingly when she describes their working relationship that gets stressed to the max sometimes when two work together every day of the week. It is always funny when it is someone else! She shares her mishaps like a best girlfriend. You feel like you know these two well and are cheering like mad for them! A very enjoyable read. I handed the book over to my dad who is enjoying it as I type this. The book is titled THE DIRTY LIFE, on Farming, Food and Love by Kristin Kimball.

Long live organic farmers.

Go to NPR (National Public Radio) for a great interview and pictures.

New review here in the Irish Times about "devouring" page after page of this book. Personally I think this book will made into a movie!

Roses and Floral Wallpaper

Just stopping by to say a fast hello. When we were at the doctor's office today I picked up a magazine that had an article about neat items. (Don't ask which magazine as I think I read three before the doctor called us in, then I read a new one on the "inside" waiting room.) It had this picture of floral wallpaper from anthropologie. Isn't it adorable? When you line it up like a "mural" it measures 9 feet by 6 feet. But then it says the roll is 9 feet by 6 feet. A total of 54 square feet. The cost? $298.00

The therapists said home rehab for my dad will be two months. Occupational and physical therapists visit daily except weekends. Nurses come as well. Meanwhile he can watch all the beauty of spring unfolding around us through a very large bay window! The day before it was 78 inside and 78 outside!

Painting new art is on hold for now. I keep a journal of my dad's activities and I should start jotting down ideas that zip by as I'm busy here.

Hopefully all are eating nutriteous food, exercising and enjoying your families!