Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 18, 2010, 10:46 pm
At recess the little class in the big city is overtaken by coloring books!  One of the craft monkey's has been tearing hers apart and restapling in a way that makes better sense to her.   M...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 17, 2010, 2:03 am
My sister, Dottie sends me missives from South Africa.  Details of her daily life.   Exploratory jaunts to interesting places.  In the shots above, a journey to the vast territory known as the Gr...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 16, 2010, 8:13 am
1. Corridor mirror, 2. #404 黃腹展啄 (Ballerina Doing A Pirouette), 3. Untitled, 4. after a storm, 5. Untitled, 6. My happy bike, 7. Sunday bear, 8. Hyacinthes, 9. 57/365 Composition...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 14, 2010, 8:14 pm
Picture this.  A giant gumball machine.  We're talking HUGE.  I'm in it thrashing about.  Up to my neck in fluorescent gumballs. You don't know if you should call for back-up.  My hea...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 11, 2010, 7:47 pm
Rain on succulents.   Clusters of sparkly globes balancing on the leaves.  Little worlds under each.   My Meyer lemon tree is budding for the first time.  Since it's my first lemon tree it c...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 7, 2010, 2:18 pm
The little downhill flowing brook that bloomed in the lane next to my house yesterday has dried up.  A big dose of lemony sunshine arrived this morning. A hot sunshine spotlight centered right ov...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 6, 2010, 5:21 pm
Rainy Saturday here in LA.  The bluebird of paradise just flew by my window.  Really!  Bright feathers settling briefly on the porch railing.  Long enough to wink at me through the window. I'...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 4, 2010, 9:30 pm
White daisies & chrysanthemums from the market. Another wood panel hanging on the wall. More rain arriving on Saturday.   I awoke last night to moonlight streaming through the window and down ont...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Mar 1, 2010, 6:07 pm
Here I am.  A mosaic and a small bite of poetry.  Because I love the pieces sometimes more than the whole.  1. lemons, 2. Prayer Flags, 3. 1950's Retro Telephone, 4. #98 黃腹雙逐 (A coupl...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 28, 2010, 8:29 pm
My sister, Dottie sent me another dispatch from South Africa.  She's at a university there until early summer with a group of African Studies college students from Minnesota.  Unlike me, Dottie ...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 26, 2010, 11:52 pm
My 48 hour vacation has begun.  Going to dive into my wood panels.  Am just coming up for air.  And food. A storm is rolling in off the Pacific, straight towards LA.  Should be here by midnigh...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 23, 2010, 7:44 pm
Lately after a day of educating young punks,  I scramble home to the disordered splendor of my art room and start making messes.  Right on. It's soothing - the making of mess.  Let's focus...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 21, 2010, 11:41 pm
Algoa Bay, South Africa.  My sister, Dottie sends me dispatches from her African odyssey.  People and animals she meets along the way. Some time last week while I lay sleeping, she headed out in a ...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 20, 2010, 8:17 pm
Saturday night.  Dinner from the taco truck.   Flowers opening in the garden.  Suede Buttons is staggering in her cloak of winter red. This is no joke.  Miniature lemons have really sprouted...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 15, 2010, 9:02 pm
Tomorrow I awake at the crack of dawn and resume life as a monkey whisperer.  Instead of being sullen,  unpleasant, and hostile about the final grains of vacation sand leaving the top of the hourgla...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 14, 2010, 12:06 pm
PAUL & I met 28 years ago at a little Catholic college on the snowy plains of Kansas.  We were a couple of round pegs floundering about in a sea of square.  For the last 20 years we've always ma...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 12, 2010, 9:48 pm
I'm having the time of my life in my tiny workshop experimenting with more wood panels. That's me there in the canoe paddling down a shimmering river.  Big smile on my face.  A flower tucked...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 12, 2010, 12:02 am
Continuing to practice random acts of tomfoolery in the art room.   Pure hits of narcotic bliss.  One after another.    No outcome in mind when I start except a good time.  My inner 2nd grade...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 10, 2010, 6:38 pm
I think this is my last batch of travel journal pages.  I'm sure I missed some.  No matter, I'll be putting them all on my Flickr page.  These plus whatever I missed along the way. I co...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 10, 2010, 1:49 am
Horsing around on some wood panels.   No the green circle at the bottom wasn't meant to have a man with a mustache inside.  No wait, now it looks like geese.  It's a man smoking a pipe! ...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 7, 2010, 11:13 pm
Sunday in Los Angeles.  A big beautiful uncomplicated day.  Layers of snow-capped mountains, blue sky, sunshine, warmth.  Every last person and animal in this gleaming metropolis rolled their heads...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 5, 2010, 9:49 pm
 My sister, Dottie was given an extraordinary opportunity to live/work in South Africa until May.  Yesterday saw her at a nature preserve where she masterfully captured the long lashes of this flirt...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Feb 4, 2010, 6:17 pm
This week my sister and I shared this butterscotch budino with maidon sea salt and rosemary pine nut cookies on the side.  Sublime. That was after the Coach farm goat cheese, leek, scallion, garlic, ...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 31, 2010, 1:59 am
 I pointed my compass south yesterday and headed home.  Away I went, down 2-lane roads darkened by tall groves of redwoods, over bridges spanning creeks, rivers, bays of silvery water.   Through mi...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 27, 2010, 10:34 pm
I've landed right here beside this frosty window with a view.   No televisions.  No telephones.  Just water, tall trees, wine, a fireplace, a featherbed, a book, and a view.  Sure there'...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 22, 2010, 9:29 pm
Happy Friday!  Added more photos to my Mérida journal this afternoon.  Turns out the dearth of postcards in the Yucatan has had the affect of prolonging my trip to Mexico.  I usually finish my jou...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 21, 2010, 12:05 pm
Oh how I am sinking deeply into these rain soaked days at home!  Padding around the house.  Watching the little pools of water forming outside in the garden.  Every petal and leaf drenched.  I co...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 19, 2010, 8:29 pm
These are the supplies I carry with me when I hit the road.  If it doesn't fit in the box it can't come.  Well, except for that packing tape.  Since I waited until about 12 hours before I l...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 17, 2010, 10:47 am
I waved goodbye to Mérida yesterday morning and began the long journey back to LA.   I had no idea before leaving for Mexico that I would once again be so transfixed by tiles!  In Portugal they w...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 16, 2010, 11:46 am
If you have already taken STENCILRY and you've been considering taking STITCHED & STENCILED, the companion class... now may be the time.  If you register for STITCHED & STENCILED between January ...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 13, 2010, 4:31 pm
Izamal is bathed in a delicious yellow the color of ripe mango.  Coming here it is easy to see why it is deemed magical by the Mexican government.  We hailed a cab and our quiet gentleman driver whi...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 13, 2010, 10:23 am
Want a shot of pure joy? Click below and get your fix. Love blooms in Mérida from MAM on Vimeo.
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 11, 2010, 10:44 pm
Lovely experiences are happening here that I don't have time to write (blog) about.  Every available word today going directly into the travel journal, which is growing fatter by the day.   Ye...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 9, 2010, 3:54 pm
  While I am exploring my tropical inner self, my sister, and regular travel partner is alas confined to the snowy hinterland of Kansas.  I have come to Mérida with my friend Suzanne w...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 7, 2010, 11:59 pm
Another warm bright day in Merida, the highlight of which was taking a leisurely stroll over to Santiago Park.  I walked alone, just me and my little flip.  I like the unobtrusiveness of thi...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 7, 2010, 11:35 am
the house from MAM on Vimeo. Day 2 in Merida. Our house is divine, once again confirming my idea that renting a house is a much more fabulous idea than staying in a hotel. And hard to believe bu...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 4, 2010, 9:44 pm
At my appointment today with the ENT, who is now my new BFF, my middle ear was pronounced all clear for take off!  Whew.  That is a relief with a capital R.  Thanks for all the ear love you sent my...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 3, 2010, 8:51 pm
As an act of good faith I've decided to start packing!   But tomorrow when I go see the ENT armed with my Ear Planes I just picked up from Walgreens I refuse to believe he will not declare me fi...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 3, 2010, 12:07 pm
I don't know if I'm NOT going to Mexico until tomorrow.  I cannot wait to find out.  How's that for a triple negative.  I mean.  Is that NOT a great triple negative?  Sigh.   One of...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Jan 1, 2010, 3:03 pm
After some coffee drinking and blog hopping this morning, and especially after going HERE, which is one of my all-time favorite blogs on planet earth, and seeing what Alicia & Andy & Clover Meadow Pau...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 31, 2009, 7:36 pm
Tell me if this has ever happened to you:  You wake up and a cat with a lampshade on his head is staring at you accusingly.  It happened to me this morning.  After a tumble with an enemy combatant ...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 29, 2009, 8:37 pm
My sister sent me this email.  And I did what anyone would do.  I copied it in its entirety and reposted it to my blog.  Without her permission.  Or her husband's permission.  Or even her cat...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 29, 2009, 2:12 am
This week's giveaway WINNER is Amy who left lucky comment #232.  Zip me out an email Amy, or leave a comment here and I'll send you the golden ticket.  Congratulations!
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 28, 2009, 8:26 pm
Christmas Eve with a friend at a cozy little Italian place.  My sister, in an effort to bring a sense of culture to my uncivilized ways, has been schooling me on the finer points of red wine.  I'...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 24, 2009, 12:17 pm
1. Untitled, 2. merry, 3. IMG_0847, 4. all things bokeh, 5. tiniest collection..., 6. 340, 7. curious Christmas cardinal, 8. Snow Wreath, 9. AND I will be out tonight like all of you.  Craning my he...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 8, 2009, 7:48 am
Lady Luck has smiled on Magpie commenter  #140!!!!  Happy Tuesday!  Have your people call my people.  You'll get hooked up. Next week I'll spin the wheel of fortune again and draw another...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 7, 2009, 11:36 pm
On this cold, rainy Los Angeles night as cloud piles move overhead and wind blows and rattles the windows of Moss Cottage, I deliver a poem.  That I took the liberty of cutting into pieces.  Because...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 6, 2009, 9:40 pm
Somewhere deep in my late Autumn brain are thoughts that have nothing to do with paper scraps and fabric bits.   Wild delicious excitements are rising and cresting.  Great waves of ideas one behind...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 5, 2009, 6:41 pm
A big serving of cold and grey in the City of Angels today.   Too much sunshine causes my smooth thoughts to become jagged.  Rain is in the forecast for next week!  It's 56 degrees outside!  ...
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Mary Ann M. posted an article on Dispatch From LA - Dec 2, 2009, 2:02 am
In a stunning reversal of tradition, the breakfast club went out for dinner & cocktails!    On a weeknight.  GASP!  To this splendid corner table.  Which overlooked the whole glittering metropoli...
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