End

 One glimpse of the story 

and you'd think you spotted love,

but like all chapters some end

quite abrupt. 

I might have known it

and than again who would, 

a heart that's broken

can no longer mend. 

 Walls hold the flesh, 

but the spirit soars free. 

Broke My Heart

One world in another
it just cannot be,
gold fish and a dolphin
and a river and a sea.

I held onto the dream
I lived it night and day,
trying to keep you close
in so many ways.

Reality had spoken and
I knew from the start
but still took my love
and broke my heart.

Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You

You and Me

The fog is heavy
but I still can see
through the heart
there is you and me.

Skies are blue
behind the gray,
makes the day
feel new.

The fog is heavy
but I still can see
through the heart
there is you and me.

Soar

Experience is freedom,
to love and to feel,
to challenge each moment
without a barrier or shield.

I take this very moment
to soar beyond the blue
and dance upon the heavens
and interlock as lovers do.

2016

I can't believe we made it into another year. It took me a life time to find myself and sometimes I still have no clue what I am to leave behind in this world. But at we approach the new year with optimism  I find that my daughter Audrey is jumping on board with some new and exciting ideas. In the coming months you will see the exciting ideas we have planned for the new year. Expanding our line of products to include cosmetics. This will complete a women's regimen to bring her in the new year with a health and fresh new look.
Poetry ... my soul  on overtime. I am sometimes lost and occasionally connected. Life is so short and so precious and I find staying on track to be  complicated at times. Though winter is progressing rather quickly I still find the darkness like a sea of water a bit difficult to tread in.
I look to the future with optimism and know it will be a great year for Autumns and for our customers.

Happy New Year!

Four months into 2015

Another season and I find myself unprepared. Unfortunately the Ramp Festival was canceled for Spring 2015 so hopefully I will see everyone at the Frontier Festival in August.
The years have gone so fast that looking back feels like yesterday. I have tried to make sense of this journey, as they say " there is a moral to every story" I know that I have met many people and learned that everyone has a few hurdles to jump. But what is the meaning of our time on earth? Well for everyone it is a bit different. I hear people all the time say " If I could do it over again". Well we can't and I guess we all experience happiness and sadness.
I have made my share of choices and not also were they so great but I took a chance. On life, love and in the process stumbled, cried and dusted myself back off.

This season finds me in some of the usual places Boalsburg , the market and also some local events. I have never felt so alone on the journey as I do now. The children have grown and at times the motivational factor has teetered. Sometimes I don't know why I am here. That is when my customer calls and talks, orders and reminds me that we all are here on this quickly passing, unique to us journey.


Sharing with the heart,
touching with the soul.

Meaningless Words

Free to journey,
travel on,
far and near,
with loss of song.

Distance between us,
time of despair,
heart of sorrow,
hear to fear.

With Love In Your Heart

It has been said " that we each have one good story in us. " If life is a book I would have preferred to lollygag in the chapters that brought the most happiness and move on in the ones that were heavy at one point. But this is life as we teeter while trying to bring balance.
I can't help but think of freedom and the lack of it. Freedom, no matter what kind of freedom we confront , it indeed comes with a price. Freedom of expression and freedom of choice always seems to be complicated by extenuating circumstances. The facts which may be invisible to the eye creates barriers that occasionally are found to restrict the soul.
As I review my life and look at the moments where I danced upon the cloud, I find that I have to review the struggles that came before and after. I have always based decision making on the basis of right and wrong. Somehow there are many ways to review the same side of a coin. What seems right at the moment becomes a gray area. Right for whom or what?

Sings >

There is angel in my corner

and I will tell you how I know,

he held my hand tightly and

refused to let it go.

 

Touched my heart

and whispered words of love,

there is an angel in my corner

sent from up above.

 

There are days when I am weary

and I don't know which way to go,

when I feel like giving up because

the moment seems to blow.

 

There is an angel in my corner

and I will tell you how I know,

he held my hand tightly and

refused to let it go.

 

Touched my heart

and whispered words of love,

there is an angel in my corner

sent from up above.

 

I don't pretend to understand or

know who wrote the script that

was written in the sand but as

the ocean erases it from the shore,

I am reminded of my angel who

I deeply adore.

 

There is an angel in my corner

and I will tell you how I know,

he held my hand tightly and

refused to let it go.

 

Touched my heart

and whispered words of love,

there is an angel in my corner

sent from up above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The darkness of the night having nothing on me,

for I have your love and I have the dreams.

 

Sunshine in my morning, with every smile you

give , that brings to me the love that through me lives.

 

~

 

Need more of your love,

your warm embrace.

 

Need more laughter

to remove the heartache.

 

Need to script to the blue

a life of loving you.

 

Need to let you know

that my love for you

continues to grow.

~

 

 

 

We sometimes write the ending

before we have read the beginning.

I don't like turning pages gray,
crumbling before me makes
for a weary day.

I don't like the darkness that
rules the night, that is why
I need your laughter to
bring me light.

~
Idle lay this body,
while the mind runs away
and still I have to confront
what comes both night and day.

Tears upon my pillow
as I share my thoughts with you,
wondering through the chapters
of both gray and blue.

We can't erase it nor
change a chapter or two,
but we still can write
tomorrow to see our
heart through.

~
With love in your heart,
you'll see it what it can do,
bridge an ocean and paint
a sky blue.

With love in your heart,
the world will look anew,
as you wander over the
mountains and see the
sun come through.

With love in your heart,
no sadness will there be,
for everything makes sense
a fulfillment of the perfect
dream.

With love in your heart,
you'll make it through the day,
touching others in a angelic
kind of way.

With love in your heart,
freedom will find away
to dance upon the heavens
night and day.

...to the redwoods.

I have found the years encapsulating. The further you travel, the more you find you haven't left the back porch. The experiences found me racing to the heavens to only find that the clouds dissipate and the fall to earth painful.

I changed the words,
I wanted to believe,
that true love existed
if only for me.

Time angered,
distance reveals
nothing in life
can make a heart
heal.

Eternity....

Someday when you're old and grey, you will hear me say that I love you, love you with all my heart.

My Soul on canvas, "Pictorial Prose": Another Version of life is not always black and wh...

My Soul on canvas, "Pictorial Prose": Another Version of life is not always black and wh...: This is one of my favorite sketches of Audrey's, Nothing is ever simple, so comes into play the colors of life. I find the picture to...

Another day, another ...

It is another year.. Wow! There have been many accomplishments and I am somehow lost in it all. Trying to focus and make decisions in a positive way.

I have no calender of events and yet May is a busy month. From presentations to farmers markets and events in between....tis is life.

Forever Free

I am forever free...free to make choices. Why does it seem so darn painful? Trapped in a maze and hitting into the walls.

The Lardin House Inn, October 20 21 2012

We are set to have a great event at " the lardin house inn, in Masontown PA. Right off of route 21 in Fayette County. The festival plans to showcase local talent and raise funds for the DVSSP - Domestic Violence Services of South Western PA. Enjoy a day of shopping, relaxation, beautiful scenery as well as a car show and other fun festivities. If you  have yet to take in the sites and scenery of south western Pa, October is the month to really explore the heart soul of Fayette and Greene and Washington County. Make the Lardin house inn your last stop on a tour of the hills of PA.

There are a few spaces available for vendors, artist and crafters. For an application email Rachel@autumnsboutique.com or the lardinhouseinn@yahoo.com.

www.lardinhouseinn.com

If you have never visited the Lardin House Inn in Masontown, now is the time to come by for lunch and dinner. The restaurant has been beautifully restored by the new owner's, to the days of its former glory. Dinner was done to perfection by the Chef Bill Aupperle and the food actually burst with flavor. The chicken was so flavorful and tender and the vegetables fresh and colorful. The surroundings took you back in time to a place rarely caught in today's busy world. Whether you are looking for lunch in between work, office meeting or simply wanting that special place for dinner, " The Lardin House Inn in Masontown comes highly recommended.

http://www.masondixonpark.net/

We will be at the frontier festival in the mason dixon park, the mount morris exit off of 79 south. The hours are Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6 pm. It has become and annual event where we celebrate kids going back to school, meet up with old friends and make new ones. If you yet to find our little corner of the world in Greene County Pa, stop by and enjoy the music, food and relax and have a wonderful time as we prepare to say goodbye to Summer and get an early welcome on the fall season.
We working on some great new products, come on out and celebrate.


http://www.masondixonpark.net/

Eminent Domain - Destruction of the "American Dream"

http://www.masondixonpark.net

http://www.masondixonpark.net/I have stayed pretty much local this year. We will be doing some of our annual events such as the mason dixon park, frontier festival. It is always a pleasure to do the the Frontier festival. Meeting up with old friends and making new ones. Rain or shine it is always a good time. Food, entertainment etc.