Summer 2010 continued....

However, Ive been doing other things....besides driving my 14 year old teen, and cooking meals and doing laundry. Ive been investigating old foundations around the state; looking for old metal parts and bottles and broken crocks for when I begin doing my mosaic wall. The metal I use in sculpture. I find old maps for the areas I am interrested in with the old houses, then I match them up with newer maps to make sure I am not digging in someones' back yard. I gather up my equipment; machete, shovel, small hand rake, back pack, bandana, water, battery powered sawzaw, metal detector, and Im off. This past weekend I found some very interresting rock mounds, about 8 random placed piles about body sizes. Im not sure if they were Indian graves or not. Ive had some training with old boundary line evidences and understand how the old farmers used to place their virginia rail fences along wetland areas or hard to dig ledges and such, but these were random and not in that uniform way for these fences. I looked up "stone piles", "Indian graves" and other words and only found "Indian Ceremonial Stones" that somewhat fit this discription. It was an erie feeling being around them, and I wanted to take the stones apart, but decided not to. I will go back and do some investigating in that area again. Only I will look for another type of stone pile where there could be some pottery perhaps. All the foundations I looked around had already been dug up. So, while I am still waiting for my season to create again I am plenty busy doing other things I enjoy. Gardening has become a chore now. While usually spring I am all ready for that because I LOVE my flowers and eating fresh from my vegie gardens. I love to watch things blossom and grow and my best harvest are the smells of my mints, wild geraniams, and lavendars which I dry and use all winter on my woodstove in the pot of water for healing and pleasing art processes. Being an evolving artist is sweet. Understanding the cycles and growth spirts have been hard, but Im starting to understand how they go now. Which means I am finially beginning to understand myself. God its been along time coming.