'free bird' ~ albrecht durer watercolor pencils in my 'daily book' 

i've come to think of the spring of 2012 as The Days of High Exuberance...   at first i thought High Birdness, but wait, what about High Flowerness and High Butterflyness, and, and...?!!   

i've seen so, so many flowers and taken pics of so, so many flowers.  i chose this one to show here because well, look, it's growing in rocks!  if that's not exuberance i don't know what is!

every year i see a lot of shooting stars, and this year was no different.   i'm showing this pic so that you can see what they look like if they don't grow where you live...  they're pinkish purple...

until this year... when i saw two white ones.  if i had stumbled on the white buffalo him/herself i couldn't have been more surprised and delighted.  i was in a state of deep amazement for hours...

to add to the wondrousness of this, tammie lee of spirithelpers also saw her first white shooting star (in montana - i'm in northeastern california) this spring.  you must go here to see how beautiful they are.  as beautiful as the ones here were, the ones that tammie saw are even more mind blowing.

i've drawn on a lot of sticks

and rusty stuff.

i now know that the color doesn't last much more than a year, and you really can't go back and add more color (on top of the old) because the surface is too waxy - the color from the prismacolor pencils fades, but the wax remains. 

it's worth it though...

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words by allen ginsberg, written in my 'daily book'

XO