Happy New Year 2024🎉🌈💝
Hope this year brings sparkle to our lives .
Peaceful. Lovely, wonderful lives for us😊
Happy New Year 2024🎉🌈💝
Hope this year brings sparkle to our lives .
Peaceful. Lovely, wonderful lives for us😊
Only today and tomorrow left in 2023.
This year passed so fast and I did a lot of things.
Now I just want to lay down and stare at sky while watching fluffy clouds go by.
After my show is up at the Northcoast Artists Gallery, I had to deal with business including filing Sale tax.
Now I started to relax and watch my plants.
I’m doing natural farming which doesn’t use pesticide nor fertilizer.
First cut weeds, leave their roots in soil, that is how the sprouting new weeds is slowed.
I make raised rows, disturbing soil as little as possible, making holes with water for seeds or baby plants.
This year I was busy preparing for my show, I didn’t have time to seed tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and basil, so I purchased them.
Finally I planted them in ground in June.
I’m doing natural farm, so roots grow slowly at first, then the plants suddenly get big and strong.
This year soaker hose had problem, didn’t water plants properly and plants got a lot of holes by bugs except tomatoes.
My favorite natural farmer, Imahashi, always says when getting plants from nurseries their soil has fertilizer that attracts bugs, but not to worry keep and let them grow with your love, when bugs finish their job they go away.
His idea is bugs come to try to fix problems.
Anyway, after we got better soaker hoses and started watering properly, plants are getting healthy and growing bigger.
I planted garlic which started sprout in our cabinet. They have very thick healthy leaves now.
Watching the lovely lights at the end of a day, which gives us smiles and very positive energy for tomorrow.
I think everybody has tried and failed.
I found a way to get through that period.
Just watching the situation like the third person outside of it, like watching waves.
Then it starts to untangle itself.
Or you can see from the other side of the issue, we may find it’s not an issue, just a way of nature.
We don’t need to be upset nor unhappy, just going with the flow as believing in ourselves.
We felt our world got in a vortex of chaos from covid 19, big fires, drought, then floods and economic fluctuations.
These dramatic events can lead to anxiety.
Stop thinking in that direction.
Go to a beach, a forest, somewhere you find yourself in nature.
Sooth yourself and feel peace and safety.
Your peace of mind and happy feelings are contagious to your friends, family and surroundings.
Vibrations, photons can make our world a beautiful and happy place for tomorrow.
This is my belief, that is the way I paint.
If you would like to know my journey according to my paintings, please visit my blog here.
I just updated “my show 2023” at http://www.mariko-irie.com/Show%202023.html.
Now I started to write blog again.
I will be at the Northcoast Artists Gallery all day July 7th from 11am to 5pm and after 5pm for my show reception, please join us.
We set up my show on July 4th.
It looks very peaceful and cheerful.
Show date: July 5 – 31, 2023
First Friday Artist Reception : July 7, 5-8pm
Place : Northcoast Artists Gallery
362 N. Main St. Fort Bragg CA 95437
707-964-8266
Also I will be at the gallery July 31, 11am – 5pm.
Hope to see your smile at my show😊💞.
Have a wonderful and happy summer,
Mariko
www.mariko-irie.com