A view of the Chesapeake Bay area. Take a good look at the crescent world above our thin atmosphere; it is not the moon, but an ideal of our own home planet, covered mostly by oceans and clouds. Is it unreachable?

Inspired by a short story by J.R.R. Tolkien, about the pursuit of artistic perfection and its just reward.

On April 7, 2007, I read an article in The Washington Post about Saad Eskander, who was the director of the Iraq National Library and Archive in Baghdad. It was about his struggle to maintain the Library despite looting and violence. He calls the Library “the historical memory of the country.”

The Dells are a beautiful landform carved by the Wisconsin River. The layered sandstone cliffs rise up alongside the river for a few miles, and are lined by old forests. Dells

This wall hanging incorporates some unusual materials. Hardware stores are as interesting to art quilters as are fabric shops. I thought it looked like clouds and air - one of the four ancient elements.