I thought some of you might be interested to see the original photos I cropped to make the art piece for Monday’s Poetry Party.  The woman on the top was my paternal grandmother Erika who died when I was one year old.  The middle woman I actually don’t know, I found her photo among the others and loved the way she was looking at the camera.  She is connected to my family in some way, but it is still a mystery.  The woman in the bottom photo was my great grandmother, Erika’s mother Ernestine, but she went by Erna.  Erika and

  11 a.m. late November shadows    (photos from a late autumn walk through my Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle) -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts

(taken from the cottage at the retreat center where we taught our intensive last week) -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts