This morning, at John C. Campbell Folk School, I headed out with the Canon camera, to capture some flowers along the path to Orchard House. I tried to photograph the mist but realized that the camera could never focus on such a blurred scene while it was set on Auto Focus, so I shifted to manual and then began to photograph the flowers up close and personal. I’m thrilled with the wonder of nature’s beauty and the power and pleasure of this great camera.

I’m happily felting away at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. I do love the needle felting “art.” The wool fibers are beautiful in both texture and color, from the washed and uncarded to the finest Merino wool roving, to the sensuous bamboo yarn. And the colors!!

First a charming attempt to recreate a beautiful landscape photo I had seen. I wanted the horizontal line of the sunset against the darkening night sky, with palm tree and quarter moon.

The next photo shows an eyeglass case which began its artistic life as a sampler in color blending: from bright yellow through green/yellow unto green itself. Then we did a stand-alone leaf which we felted on, but then we raised the leaf by feathering around its edges. I needle felted a back and then needled the two sides together.