Art & Illustration

Memory is an Unreliable Narrator, Print Your Photos

Stashed away in shoeboxes since the dawn of digital, the photos were a slideshow I was tentative to unreel.

Jan 23 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

Evergreen Garden Stories

and sweet peas...

Jan 16 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

Be a Good Human

I didn’t expect to have a puzzle & puff pastry on this week’s bingo card... WAIT, the world is coming apart at the seams and I'm talking about puzzles …

Jan 9 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

Organizing Life

Every year, rather than forward thinking resolutions, I find myself looking at the past, the lost, and the forgotten.

Jan 2 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

Celebrate the Turning of the Wheel

Here on the eve of the biggest dark, it would be so easy to draw in and succumb to despair. Thankfully light is coming on the other side of the Winter…

Dec 19, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

In December 2020, a generous Seattle homeowner transformed a concrete retaining wall along the sidewalk into a whimsical, remarkably detailed…

Dec 15, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

All Gingerbread

all the time... Thankfully gingerbread order has been restored.

Dec 13, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

Note the woodsy scent of the tiny noble fir in the corner of the living room, the resinous perfume of juniper limbs loaded with berries on the mantle…

Dec 12, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

for your index of delight this week...

Dec 8, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

An Equation for Miracles

‘tis the season of miracles and gifting. Squeezed for time and with limited funds it’s easy to get distracted from what we can all give freely: The…

Dec 5, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

All the Waters Touch

and everything is connected... Life is a flat circle and all the waters touch. I know I’m mixing my metaphors, but I believe that life is the sum of…

Nov 28, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

your index of delight...I'm dreaming of a Spring Garden Festival, an Invincible Summer and cake!

Nov 24, 2025 • Lorene Edwards Forkner

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