Category Archives: Wonder Moments

“At the Scent of Wonder,” available in my new gallery, Easter…Spring…and Mother’s Day   So…  I’ve resisted for a long time.   I just didn’t want to get involved with it.  With one more thing to keep up with.   With … Continue reading →

Often when I look through photos as ideas to draw, there are those that just make me smile… like the one that inspired this little gem. Who is this middle-aged, bowler-hatted, suit-clad gent riding so elegantly but incongruously on cycle?  … Continue reading →

Mm… this wonder-filled image!  It so captures the artist, the reader, the dreamer in me. It whirls clouds of white stallions across blue skies.  Stirs remembrance of England’s Cornwall coast as one of my lifelong favorite story themes, where protagonists … Continue reading →

Battery Point Lighthouse, Crescent City, California   Softly, at your morning pillow, He bids you, “Come.” You feel, more than hear the call to a freshly-crafted story unfolding in the dawn.  To a small, leather-bound volume that seems to be … Continue reading →

It was ten o’clock on a recent September morning, sunny and warming, the air scented with the last of white puffed hydrangeas and red roses spilling down the hillside to my right.  The aroma of fresh-turned earth rose from the … Continue reading →

Birdsong wings its piquant patterns, as if in tune to the way light is dappling and softening the  lawns as I step from my car this morn.  The perfect stillness, the refreshing…the memories I love here… all is enlivening to … Continue reading →

Humming obliviously, happily, two year-old Micah busied himself around the circular play base on the church lawn. Now he was even dipping his rosy cheeks, nose down, inside the hole at it’s top – curious to spy inside.  Investigating.  Learning.  … Continue reading →

We — or at least I — shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.  At best, our faith and reason will tell us that … Continue reading →

Do you ever find the Presence of the Lord, a flooding of praise and thankfulness, flowing over you each time you come upon a  simple grace or beauty around you? The sudden burst of spring is one of those moments … Continue reading →

All women are mothers.  Because all women bring life to the world in some way.  ~ Holley Gerth Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. ~ George Eliot HAPPY MOTHER’S  DAY!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © Pam Depoyan “Upon entering, … Continue reading →