September Flying Carpet 2021

 I can still hear the crickets singing
the night before the first day of fall
like the rusting hinges of the season

 

The sharing of the harvest

Color feasts of Farmer's Markets

Amulets beseeching bounty 

and blessing 

Honoring the harvest

Drying and storing 

for long winter months

When is that moment
of crescendo?

 

August 2021Flying Carpet

 In August The Flying Carpet
has sent you to the Land of Scent.

Use your eyes 

to conjure the aroma of

petrichor…
the tenuous essence 

that occurs after rainfall

Marvelous moment of desert rain

Smell of approaching fall 

in New Mexico
Chili roasting…

Bundles of sage

A museum of smell!!!
The history of fragrance in Venice
at Mocenigo Palace

Safflower fields in rural France

Whiff of the exotic

Miasma of Evening in  Paris

Burning leaves
at the papermaker's shrine

…and your olfactory memories?

July Flying Carpet 2021

 In July The Flying Carpet
welcomes you 

 Through The Looking Glass
into Rieke Studios

 Over the threshold

Where memory is bundled

and papers are illuminated

Where time flies

and lines ripple

Where black and white 

exchange letters

Where reflections keep their secrets

Where cages are empty
and suitcases are full

Where rust sleeps in the garden

The Flying Carpet invites you

to visit Rieke Studios

through the month of August

by appointment

gail@riekestudios.com

June Flying Carpet 2021

 In June
The Flying Carpet
was PEOPLE-IZING

 

This little Pridelette
captured
the delicious moment
 

This bigger Pride-ette
knows how to celebrate…
adorned and adored

This Space-Walker
Belly-Dancer
Hoop-Gyroscope
strutted her stuff
on the Plaza

Wanda The Wanderer
tried Internet dating

And finally thought
Gus The Gunslinger
was The One

before he rode off
into the sunset

 

Harley Grampa
made a quick get-a-way
as well

Stone sculptor Mark Saxe
was excited about
finishing his biggest fountain 

Susann Craig left us
to decorate
The Great Beyond
with her ebullient presence

Special thanks to
Maggie for Wanda
Gayle for Gus
and Jill for 

gathering the Creatives

May Flying Carpet 2021

 After dreaming about travel 

for over a year,
The Flying Carpet,
vaxxed and not vexed
finally went somewhere!!!
“Life as a Waking Dream”

“I dreamed I” owned a paint store
in Truth or Consequences, 

New Mexico

“I dreamed I” was playing my favorite game“ Reflections” 

in T or C

and  in Hatch, New Mexico

“I dreamed I” saw whacky art
outside A Space Gallery
in Silver City, New Mexico

Where I saw that blue! blue!
New Mexico sky

And the most funky-fabulous mosaics

“I dreamed I” went to the movies
in an actual movie theater!!!!

     "I dreamed I” played dress up
at Patsy's Vintage Fantasies

Photo by Victoria Rabinowe

"I dreamed I” said goodbye
to Silver City

"I dreamed I"  was 

"On the Road again”

To The City of Rocks

“I dreamed I"  stole from the rich
to give to the poor

Special thanks to Victoria
(my hilarious traveling companion)

And to Ann
(the Mostess Hostess
with the sweet suite)
and the wonderful
show of her paintings

Photo by Victoria
 Sending love to all of you…

May all your dreams come true