Long, long ago (in a galaxy around the corner)...

We, Susan & Jon (awkwardly pictured below) went on a trip to Duluth this past June:



While there, we saw beautiful scenery (Canal Park lighthouse):



(ship coming into Canal Park harbour):



("sea"-gulls):



...and on the way home, Susan played "self-portraits" with their camera, a game which Jon does not love very much:

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...and the sun shined over a field of windmills on the way home:




Later in June, we went to Susan's niece's wedding where there were pretty flowers:




In July, Jon played a beautiful Nina Simone song at his in-law's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party:




Susan inherited her Grandmother Miranda Henrietta Rose Denbrooke Heath's skill for horticulturing african violets (the trick is to not get the leaves wet, ever):




Susan made her ward's YW girl's camp flag:



...and did NOT act like a camp leader - she's the 2nd one in from the left:

(note: Susan got asked daily at camp if she was a leader or a camper).


A Monarch visited the Ramsey house of royalty:



Bonnie Wright stole Susan's face:


(screen still from a new film to be released soon).


Our neighbour gave us our pumpkin that was growing on their side of the fence; it is turning a nice bright orange on the kitchen table now:



and Susan colored her hair red:



In other non-photographed newz:

Susan's art will be published next month in Melvin Lans' online art magazine (Jon's artist friend from Colombia, South America)

Jon has been patiently teaching Susan quantum mechanics (while enduring her lack of basic math skills)

Jon started helping coach his niece Breanna's soccer team

and Susan started leaving fewer carbon footprints on the planet by taking the bus to work, which she likes because it feels like school.

dogs in springtime...

susan and margie like to cuddle and watch tv:


Piper, not understanding the game of "fetch the ball", fetches Margie instead:


...and is pleased with herself when she feels she has successfully fetched Margie:


Margie offers the ball to anyone willing to throw it for her again:


susan planted holly bushes last summer, and this year they are blooming, which brings so many possibilities for christmas decorations:


susan never noticed how the quaking aspens budded like pussy willows in early spring:

Stuff only my Mom would care about:

AAAhhh, the family blog update. It will be severely boring to you unless you are my mother. So, Margie and Piper will try to take you along on a journey through our latest happenings...

Here we are waiting for Sue to throw the ball. She makes us wait too long, But we'll stand here forever, drooling, until she does:


One evening, she made an oven-roasted chicken and we couldn't stand the torture of being forced to smell it all night without being able to eat all of it. A lousy small treat portion was given:


Here's Leo who, just as he got good at climbing trees, has been quarantined inside after a neighbour complained of the cats pooping in their flower beds:


Here's sassy, jerk Napoleon. He whines a lot when he can't go outside. and whaps us and bites sometimes. what a jerk. but Susan seems to like cuddling with him for some reason:


Here's fat cat Phineas who lies around, eats, and meaows when he gets lost in the basement every 5 minutes:


Here we are running the ball back to susan so she'll throw it again to us for us to chase. our job is hard, but we love doing it:


We got to poop in this area of the yard for a year to get susan's garden all fertilized. then we got to eat all the grass out for her. then she planted her seeds yesterday, so we don't get to go in there anymore. But we do still have to eat all the grass around the fence, so our work is never complete, until winter (then we have the "stick project" to worry about):


Here's soem Spring litter susan found in our front yard after the snow melted. It was the most interesting as of yet! Half a Cinderella doll, a kid army jacket, energy drinks, and meat sticks... mmm, good stuff to chew on i'd say:


Here's all of us pets lying on susan as jon takes the picture. we like to all lie on her because she gets really warm and scratches our backs:


here's the front yard flowers this year. some sort of animal must've eaten all the Black Beauty tulips this year:


but here was a stray black beauty:



and an orange spikey one:


the parrot kind:


purple:


and a home-made hybrid:


The End. We hope you enjoyed our update... Do we get a treat now???

my big fat update

last weekend brought heavenly treats of scones with devonshire cream for tea time along with grandmother denbrooke heath's english bone china.
thank you, sharon young!


napoleon liked it too:



Piper (aka Pipermint after she eats my burt's bees peppermint chapstick) gets bored when left out alone at home. Who wouldn't with NOTHING to do besides bark muffledly at passersby through windows while the humans are away?
SO... why not metamorphosize into the tazmanian devil and tornado-ify the entire house?! Yes. Plan made. And, abra-cadabra... Garbage EVERYWheRE! --->


knawed off plunger handle ^


bathroom trash ^


can't quite get to main garbage can! ^


trash be free!!! ^


pyrex measuring cup amongst boxes ^


that lemonade cookbook's gotta be around here somewhere! ^


trying to call for help with recipe ^




all we have is powder mix?!! ^


living room tornado! ^


broken glass in bathtub, broken hearts. ^


luckily, no injuries were sustained.

Piper loves her kennel while humans are away.

and we all need an extra relaxing tea time with scones and cream!

a great blue heron summer

Susan's been published!
& her great blue heron painting is the Cover Art for this season's
Minneapolis Observer Quarterly!



To read whole interview, visit http://www.mplsobserver.com/

Painting With Words: Artist Susan Heath Talks About Art, Nature, and Place

May 24, 2009

The Great Blue Heron on the cover of the summer issue of MOQ was painted by Minneapolis artist Susan Heath. We asked Susan to tell us more about what inspires her and to share her thoughts about art, artmaking, and being a nature-loving artist in the city.

april shower, may flowers

Hi. I'm Leonardo. Leo for short. Lucky Leo sometimes as well. I was out on the front step the other day when i discovered what good my claws are for as i abruptly ran up the front tree.


Piper underwent horticultural training and failed when she achieved mere hole-digging and seed-unearthing, but won the Canine award for "Places to hide a Bone" contest.


After an honest day's work of instigating trouble with Margie, drinking all the water, and stepping all over human's sensitive parts, Piper likes to curl up with Susan (her chosen favorite) and hoard the blankets and bed space.


We all like to go outside and enjoy the miracles of nature, including these lilacs...


Even Napoleon takes time out of his pain-causing-jerk-stuff activities to enjoy the wonders of lawn-munching...


these Bleeding Hearts spouted poetry and prose about the romance of Spring sun...


Phineas watched for birds and whined at the neighbors in his old man voice...


While the rainbows of tulips stood around, wondering which colors would be added to the mix next year.