by Robin Brooks | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
dried sunflower stalks on a foggy October morning in our Topsham garden Lately, I’ve been thinking about my relationship to our cat Toshi. Toshi came to us three years ago at this time of the year. She was a tiny ten-week-old ball of fluff. Ever since she was a...
by Robin Brooks | Dec 9, 2008 | Teaching and Learning
I carefully harvested the dried stalks from my day lilies and stored them in the shed. In early October, I brought bags of these tall lightweight “lines from nature” into my art room. For my kindergarten students, I cut a variety of lengths of lines...