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Tom Vanderhyden – Master of a Traditional Craft

February 5, 2015 by Michael Wright

elsewhere in the room, the remaining nesting tables stand beautifully in readiness.

Tom and I stood in the middle of the room and looked up. The space was large and yet comfortable, defined by the wooden posts, beams, walls and trim. There was a warmth that filled the space all the way to the peak. I have spent many hours in this 20 x 26 foot timber…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Building, Craft, Home, Wood

Always Thinking of Something to Eat

December 30, 2014 by Kate Walter

mystery in cabbage

  Comes a new year, and I find a time to pause in my butterfly report. The holiday season has been pleasantly busy for us at Living Traditional Arts, and part of the activity has been a dispersal of many of the food related paintings from the Living Traditional Arts Shop. Andrew Bick’s food photos…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Beyond the Back Forty

Last Summer, Still Looking for Monarchs

December 8, 2014 by Kate Walter

leaves and sunlight by Kate Walter

Last summer in Wisconsin we saw vibrant greens and blues, lit by golden sun through clear pleasant air. I kept watching for the sharp accent of orange and black of the Monarch butterfly, and for a long time I didn’t have much luck. Even on that valley farm so beautiful that we used the word…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Beyond the Back Forty

Butterfly Tale Two

November 8, 2014 by Kate Walter

leaves and sunlight by Kate Walter

A brief stop at Bakke Farm, then over one ridge and across two rivers to the beautiful valley farm of a friend who said, yes, she had seen a Monarch this summer. One. It was still July, and I’d been thinking about Monarch butterflies. Her place, grown lush in the moderate summer weather that settled…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Beyond the Back Forty

The Butterfly Tale

October 30, 2014 by Kate Walter

We got to Wisconsin in the summer. It was July, and we saw a few fireflies. There was a feeling in the air. I had to ask. “Seen any Monarch butterflies this year?” We visited a lot of people and I asked often. No one said they’d seen more than one, most said, “No, none…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Beyond the Back Forty Tagged With: butterfly, endangered species, monarch

Four Leg Peg

October 16, 2014 by Kate Walter

I first saw this easel design when I was living and working in Toronto, Canada. Two different schools had several in storage and brought them out to display signs or art work in progress at festivals or at special classroom events. Neither school used them for individual easels in full classes – I’m thinking they…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Art, Craft, Education, Painting, Shop, Small Business, Wood

EN PLEIN AIR

August 21, 2014 by Kate Walter

The Viroqua, Wisconsin plein air painters keep Bakke Farm on their list of regional locations that offer beautiful rural views, and three painters came to the farm one Friday in August to catch a summer image. Kathy Fairchild arrived first. Kathy comes to the farm quite often; she and her husband have a garden over…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Art, Painting

PIECE BY PIECE

August 4, 2014 by Kate Walter

There was still clothesline tied to the old laundry poles in the sideyard of the Bakke Farm house, so I hung up my new quilt for a view, an art piece in an artistic setting. Quarter square triangle blocks, a standard in quilt piecing design, make up this subdued and yet vibrant piece, and I…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Art, Craft, Fiber, History, Textiles

Treasures in the Marketplace

March 13, 2014 by Kate Walter

I first saw the bracelet at a music festival some years ago in Toronto.  The copper color caught my eye, and I was attracted by the beautiful design of the letters cut from metal. “What do these words say?” I asked the Tibetan vendor. “It’s a mantra,” he answered, “inviting enlightenment for everyone on earth.”…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Craft, Festival, Fiber, Metal, Shop, Small Business, Textiles Tagged With: bracelets, gem and mineral show, Kate Walter, Michael Wright, scarves, shop talk, tucson

Teaching Moments in a Desert Garden

February 17, 2014 by Michael Wright

  When I arrive at Las Milpitas de Cottonwood community gardens, Josh Banno and a group of students are already working. They had taken the city bus from their downtown high school as they do every Friday afternoon as an after school option activity to work on their small piece of ground in the larger community…READ MORE >

Filed Under: Education, Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens, Sustainability

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by Michael Wright

Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

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