Garden Guided Meditation – Real & Imagined
September 1st, 2022GARDEN GUIDED MEDITATION – Real & Imagined September is my favorite garden month. The gardens are lush with flowers and foliage and mostly on their own. There is some weeding here and there, but it’s too late to plant for this growing season, too early for fall planting. It’s a month of rest. There is […]
Springtime Mandalas – Gardens & Sharing
May 17th, 2022Springtime Mandalas – Gardens & Sharing Garden Mandalas Spring is the time of nature’s mandalas. The flowers are blooming in mandala madness. Tulips, daffodils, and even earlier flowers started the show by sharing their colors, circular centers and round shapes. Mandalas are also seen in flowers that don’t hold an outer circular shape. They […]
Mandalas and Sunflowers for Ukraine
April 11th, 2022Mandalas and Sunflowers for Ukraine The latest Mandala Circle was in late March. The war in Ukraine was already a month old. The heartbreak felt then and now is deep. The colors and shapes we created in our art were to recognize the people of Ukraine and honor their strength and sorrow. Christine’s Mandala […]
Can We Speak in English Flowers – Old (1760s) and New (2017)
October 9th, 2017Can We Speak in English Flowers – Old (1760s) and New (2017)
London to Missouri and Back. Coloring Book and Garden Visits
To Be or Not To Be – A Garden
July 27th, 2017I am working on a new practice, like the practice of yoga, meditation or prayer. It is the practice of becoming bilingual in the language of animacy.
Garden Planting & Mandalas
June 12th, 2017Today I finished planting my garden. It’s the last on the list of the many gardens I work in. Before digging in the dirt I took some mandala photos of the garden and flowers that touch my heart and share my time.
Flower Love – My Garden In Vases
August 19th, 2016I love my garden and the beauty of flowers. I love growing flowers and bringing some inside to be near their beauty and energy. These are some of the flowers from my garden from this year, in vases I love, many that I made out of clay.
Driveway Mandalas
May 12th, 2016I miss making mandalas with art materials. Instead I’ve created some “driveway mandalas”. It is busy springtime when my life and driveway are filled with flowers and plants
Flower Fix – Mandalas & Bundles of Joy
February 22nd, 2016Spring is almost here. There are a few flowers blooming in St. Louis now. Their small flowers are a joy, but their small size sometimes isn’t enough.
My Cutting Garden – Flower Love in Winter
January 18th, 2016In the winter I have to visit the flowers in my garden through photographs. It lets me fall in love with my garden all over again.