Last Day of Summer

October 4, 2006

Okay it’s not really summer, but yesterday hit 89, one of the last really warm days of the season. I’ve been working hard lately to get ready for this show. Truthfully, I’m kind of freaking out because I’d hoped to have a lot more work done by now, and I only have two month left to get ready. But I’ve been having a pretty good week, so we took the afternoon off to go water skiing.

Although it was warm out, the water was a bit chilly (well what do you expect on October 3rd?) But it was a gorgeous afternoon and with hardly any other boats on the lake, the water was like a mirror — slick and smooth. Skiing into the setting sun was like sailing into heaven. Then we anchored in a cove, let the dog swim around snapping up bugs, and listened to the birds and the leaves fall while eating some homemade (lopsided) sushi as the sun finally dropped behind the trees.

When we got back to the boat docks, there was an almost full moon in the sky. I suddenly remembered as I looked that the boat lights reflecting in the water, several years ago I had seen a similar scene. I had just stumbled across Paula Burbidge’s Quilt Studio, the first quilt book I ever bought. Paula’s book shows her amazing studies of light reflecting on water. At the time I was so excited and overwhelmed by the idea of making art using fabric, so jazzed up by the photos of her studio, that I barely knew where to begin.


Although I’m truely awed by these glimses of great beauty, I find it difficult to even think about doing art. Nature is a much better artist than me, so I’m pretty happy just being an observer and making art about other things — like snowcones and toothbrushes. There was lots of inspiring road construction along the highway around the lake, and it’s true, I got more ideas from that.

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