Thursday, June 23, 2022
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Summer Solstice Morning Walking! slowly with My Two Girls!
It has been a long while... Months almost a year maybe... That I have been able to take a morning walk down our local lane with my two body guards and fur baby companions, Mollie the Dog and Verde the cat. Illness and other circumstances had prevented me to do so. As some of you know.. Mollie and I have been going through various stages of the madness of our times.. see previous bloggings for that.
Well this am I took Mollie out onto our road again.. the two of them bolted out the gate.. as if no time had been lost. So I followed their lead... We saw some usual women walking on the road.. and then to my surprise.. off we went... Slowly walking over to see the horses, the oh-so-amazing view in the East... And alas the sun.. the sun coming up through the trees on this, the longest day of the year.
I have to keep walking at this point (or I truly feel that I am going to lose my legs), though I thought Mollie as well as I might just recover and she has!!!
Whether it was muscle memory or just divine intervention... We made it all the way to the first gate.
They both rolled in the white sand on the road that they both like to do. Verde skipped to and fro...playing with us both like she loves to do! Magic was truly in the air... And once again.. I count myself blessed... Happy Summer Solstice Y'all indeed!
Just some of my Art... You too can become a supporter of my own as a Creative Being!!
Over the years since starting this blog way back at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse circa 2007, I have attempted to be my own promoter of my own, (now much bigger) collection of watercolors, potato prints, nature rubbings, collages, photographs and mixed media creations.
I was supposed to have my first show and opening in June of 2009.. in a cafe in Half Moon Bay , California, but my abrupt departure from my entire life on the Pacific Coastline... It wasn't to be so.
In 2009 I finally posted alot of my work on this my eddy, my book, my blog! Giving it all away free to the universe to see...in hopes that it would someday finally pay off! and you can click on that year to the right here... In the fall of 2009.
So I packed it all up... In a tote given to me by a couple from Germany who were staying at our hostel...and hauled it all the way back to Ohio. One half of ( that then) couple became one of my greatest supporters and remains to be an amazing supporter by both the occasional monetary donation via paypal and as just a beacon of wisdom for me, who remains to be my biggest supporter still.. and remains to be my friend across the pond.
As a matter of fact, I have asked , Claudia, who remains a facebook friend.. (often communicating with me when I wake up in the middle of my OwlGirlRhythyms night and hop onto The Net), to along with a longtime pal in (Upper Manhatten, NYC,NY) to somehow oversee what exactly becomes of this huge body of work, should these recent covid/lymes disease/spider bite... Take me down.
My one showing was two pieces I had in the Rhodes Tower Gallery located on the first floor of The Ohio State office building in the center of downtown Columbus.. all Thanks to my fellow artist (famous) cousin Jim Siemer... Who was organizing the show back in the day. Note Jimmy's work can be seen on
But besides that, and this blog, my work has never been seen. I go back and forth about whether or not to put it onto a site such as etsy... But the fiercely independent woman that I am... Still wants to try and sell it on my own.
You too can be a supporter of my (lifelong) creative process.. and help me to NOT be yet another artist " who died penniless! " Never really benefitting from it myself.
Contact me at my
annie.siemer@gmail.com
Via comment here or on a facebook project I use for an umbrella for my wider work as a kaleidoscopic Environmental Educator, longtime Interpretive Naturalist, Herbalist, organic gardener-farmer... That is a site on face book I call
Withlacoochee Arts and Ecology!
Link here
And!
Happy Summer Solstice Y'ALL!!!!
Wisdom from a nearly 10 year old magazine...
I have been known to be somewhat of a magazine hoarder. I have carried this one copy of Mary Janes Farm since I purchased it up in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio.. right before I moved down here permanently to become my Dad's caretaker.
I have kept mostly magazines such as The Mother Earth News, National Geographic, and other publications that feature herbal medicine wisdom... Traveling, backpacking, bicycling and such. Most of them were left behind in moves, in my storage unit still in Ohio.. and some of them made it down here. I am not sure if it is still in existence.. but it remains to be timeless.. and now it's all new again.
Here is one illustration in this edition (Oct-Nov 2012) that "resonates" with me.. and became just the perfect illustration regarding what I have been going through... Now.
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| Illustration by Dr. Laura Koniver Guest writer for this issue Of Mary Janes Farm Back then, Dr. Koniver had a website www. IntuitionPhysician.com And was a "South Carolina physician who brings intuition and medicine together for a fuller understanding of healing and a deeper connection to her patients. Again, I am not sure whether she is still practicing.. or who knows after this pandemic.. whether she is still helping US ALL to heal... One intuition at a time. I certainly hope so. |
And
both still seem to be surviving and thriving like me!
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Happy Father's Day... To my Dad "Ray"!
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| My Dad Ray and I on the steps of my Maternal Grandparent's Barry and Bernie (nee McVay) Finneran front stoop.. Avondale Avenue, Franklinton/Westside Columbus, Ohio Circa 1961. |
After the Storm.. as seen on Riverbend Road yesterday afternoon...
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| There are many beautiful Crepe Myrtle Trees on our Riverbend Road.. the daily thunderstorms have returned, we all get a chance to cool off and the plants , animals and birds all Rejoice!!! |
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| I love all Airstreams.. young and old and still have an old one Up for sale... |
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| This collection of gnomes has grown over the years and I just love seeing the changes.. its been a while since I have been able to drive our road.. so yesterday everything just Looked amazingly vibrant! |
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| Ibis on Riverbend Road |
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| My consumer cellular flip phone camera just doesn't do these crepe myrtles justice.... |
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| This land was once owned by my Grandpa's best friend Joe "Jack" Lewis, who became my Dad's best friend and fishing buddy after Grandpa passed on back in 1991. Years ago, while coming here between Outdoor and Park Naturalist jobs, Jack allowed Us to hang out in his dockhouse to fish or in my case.. get some time To watch the numerous Egrets, Great Blue Herons, turtles, alligators and myriad other forms of wildlife that were more numerous..here on Lake Rousseau, Back in the day. |
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| I recently met the family who purchased the property.. and will use it as a vacation spot. Changes come hard on me at times.. especially now when the difference betwen the haves and have nots seems so poignantly clear. |
They did keep the old mailbox.. and for me that is a really nice way
to maintain the history and folklore
Of the place.
And alas, our road is a mixture of red and blue and all colors
Of our beautiful spectrum.. like the tiny Mexican Hat (purchased for my
dog and constant companion Mollie) , now an old blind dog at home in the
Air conditioning.
This post is dedicated to my Dad.. Raymond ,
this today being Father's Day... And my Paternal
Grandpa Francis "Frank/Pee Wee" Siemer, whose retirement from
The New York Central Railroad... Got us all here to Riverbend Road,
Dunnellon , Florida
In the first place.
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