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I’ve also been studying my cats with my camera. Some hate it and some tolerate it.  I just keep working with my models until the job is done! Reverie Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge Enlightenment Photograph copyright by Lynn Bridge Which came first:  the reverie or the

The Wife of Mr. Fix-it 14″ x 11″ x 3″.  Copyright 2009 by Lynn Bridge In looking back over my posts from last fall (2009), I was surprised to see that I had written nothing about one of my personal favorite mosaics I have made.  This mosaic made of hardware from

“There is no abstract art.  You must always start with something.  Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”  -Pablo Picasso I went to the photographer today to pick up three of my mosaics and their images she had captured with her professional equipment.  I

Today, I’m hearing voices in my head!  One of them is telling me to get busy on my new ‘Blog Triage’ class assignment from Cynthia Morris and Alyson Stanfield:  write a topical post three different times, each to a different type of person in our lives, or even

The other day I was polishing this thing, this butter-keeper, which has been passed down in the family, and I started wondering about the young bride who received it as a wedding present back in 1873 or so.  How much time did she spend polishing it?  Did she relish figuring out

Spring is starting in Austin, Texas.  The native Mexican plum trees, an understory plant, are flowering white under the bare branches of the taller trees.  This non-native shrub in my yard is flowering pink already, and its sibling shrub is thinking about blooming sometime this

I realize that most of the world does not care about American football, but our country just finished the 44th year of the National Football League’s Super Bowl match up, and lots of people in this country care a LOT!  Millions of dollars’ worth of  television

Our friends who were in Haiti to try to re-open the hospital in Leogane told the story of coming to the United States for a couple of weeks at Christmas to visit friends and family, and buying a large supply of LED flashlights to take back to the hospital in Haiti as presents for

I made this mosaic yesterday as an escape from a mosaic that I could not seem to accomplish.   The way I explained it to someone who inquired about its meaning on my Flickr photos is this:  the idea presented itself when I was using similar materials to design a different piece,

Without realizing it, as a child running barefoot, going for Sunday afternoon drives in the car, and trying to be a wild animal as much as possible, I internalized the shape of my area- the way the limestone cliffs look when they weather, the shapes the hills take on over