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Zero Sum Game at the Folk Tree
The Day of the Dead is upon us and there is no better way to celebrate, than attending the 32nd Annual Day of the Dead Show at the Folk Tree in Pasadena. My entry this year is a riff on the Mayan Ball hoop at Chichen-Itza in Mexico. If you haven’t been, add it to […]
Season’s Greetings from Monsanto Gardens!
Everybody here at Monsanto Gardens wishes you happy holidays with family and friends filled with good GMO food and cheer. The halls are decked, the candles are lit, the cookies are baked. Let’s pig out!
Happy Thanksgiving from All of Us
The Pigmumpkins and everyone here at Monsanto Gardens would like to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! Leaf Girl also sends her best wishes for a season of plenty.
Song of my selfie
Last night, it rained for the first time in six months, and today, All Saints Day of the Dead (my birthday), I saw a little girl cartwheel on a grave. I never could cartwheel, but I have spun fifty times around the sun and can run three times around the cemetery where children play on […]
Dia de los Muertos Lives!
I would like to print a retraction from my previous post “Adios dia de los muertos“. Gail Mishkin corrected me. Although Saturday, October 11 was indeed her last day at the Folk Tree. The Folk Tree itself is still going strong. Dia de los Muertos lives, and Rocky is just fine. I’d like to thank […]
Adios Dia de los Muertos
This year’s Dia de los Muertos celebration and art event at the Folk Tree is bittersweet. Like every year for the past ten, I can’t wait to see what Gail Mishkin has done with the place. When I dropped off my “Lost at Sea” skeleton mermaid mirror a couple of weeks ago, the walls were […]