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Tomorrow I'm going to submit my application to the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery. They accept apps only once a year from new folks, and I happened to find it a month before the deadline. The worst that can happen is that they say no. And I still get my work and name under more people's noses. Chuck's recently been accepted there, and one of the questions on the app is whose collections are you in. Well, he & I exchanged paintings a couple of years ago, sooooo, I'm in the collection of another artist in the gallery- ha!

I *accidently* started another collage this weekend. I was just going to put down some layers of texture so that when I decided what it would be, I could jump in with some good stuff. For texture, I added some leaves, which lead to dandelions, then some moss, and pretty soon I realized that this will be about our garden- not even an idea that was on the list. I dug up years and years worth of seeds in various bags, so I've bordered it with seeds packs- peas from 1995 and radishes from last year. Jim's really pleased that these old seeds are getting such a dignified retirement:-) Now I'd added invoices from Seeds of Change orders, ads from the Sunday paper on plants, grills, and hoses; and bits cut out of books- sketches of plants, and descripitons of species. It's all I want is to work on it:-)