November 2023

“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.” — Cynthia Rylant

The Crocker Art Museum & Sacramento 2023

“And I’d do it again.” — Aimeé Crocker

October 2023

“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” — Keith Donohue

Paranormal Cirque II 2023

“The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.” — Laura Lam

September 2023

“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.” — Peggy Toney Horton

August 2023

“August was smoking hot, then September walked in as cool as a cucumber, and made her presence felt.” — Charmaine J Forde

World Watercolor Month 2023

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Willem Van Gogh

The Missing Pages – April, May, & June

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

July 2023

“it is the end of july and the idle breeze of gentle childhood befogs my mind once more,
as the foreign dull heat holds my body so close i feel it’s scarce and quiet breathing brush against my stomach.” — adina s.

Central Coast California 2023

“Lean in close to my little record player on the floor. So this is what the volume knob’s for… I listen to dance music.” – JD/The Mountain Goats