A Few Little Things

It was the addition of the lawn ball in the tall stand that caught my eye this time. Yard Art. Making life interesting.

Ohio House with the Art Car parked in front

Found on a Walk

The day before the snow came.

From My Grandmother’s Album

No notations and the faces are not familiar

Wordless Wednesday

3 Day Old Sandhill Cranes- Guest Blog

Sandhill Cranes in Florida photographed by Marlene.

Who Knew?

National Sock Monkey Day

is Monday March 7th

I know this absurd fact because my friend Joanne sent me her daily Pandemic Painting and told me so! She and her sisters paint daily for two years now but I’ll do a separate post about their prompts and the paintings they create and share with one another.

Joanne’s Daily Watercolor

My sister Mary my daughter Laura and my grandson Charles and I have been to The Sock Monkey Museum in Rockford, Illinois . (Mary and I went another time, too). here’s one post from that exhibit

Mary
Laura and Charlie

I’ve sewn a lot of sock monkeys. Here are two.

https://rutheh.com/2018/01/06/the-sock-monkey-book/ a book I illustrated about how to make a sock monkey

Sock monkey tag on previous blogposts

Silent Sunday

Monongahela Incline March 6, 2012

March 5, 2012

Carrie Furnace ten years ago. I’ve photographed it many times in all seasons. The Monongahela River looks different every time.

From the archives March 5, 2012

Mushroom Twins

Mushrooms. Yes or no?

Children in Winter c.1916

From my Grandmother’s Album. Durand, Illinois. Uncle Robert (b.1914) I’m the left. Uncle John (b.1910) on the right. my mother Marian (b.1912) next to Robert with the light trim on her dark hat. She looks about four to me but maybe it’s 1917.

Don’t know child in the center wearing the white hat Robert, Marian, ? and John. A neighbor?
They had just one boy cousin.