Corners, Milkweed & Memory Jogging



Wrapping a canvas around a stretcher corner is similar to making hospital corners on a bed.

Making the bed neat and tidy is easier. My canvas corners are slightly lumpy. If I leave the right amount of canvas to fold, then the corner will be smoother more often. In the photo, there is a good amount of canvas but the corner isn’t tidy. 

In a frame, lumps won’t show. Untidy corners, I believe, don’t injure the artwork’s value. 

A corner over-cut on a watercolor or drawing mat does, I feel, lessen the value of the artwork. I will not accept a framed piece that has mat corner over-cuts because it is sloppy mat cutting. I believe All matted artwork for sale should have mats with no over-cut corners.

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Milkweed

Milkweed flowers have a sweet and strong scent. I am glad to say that despite losing 80%+/- of my sense of taste and smell after getting the 2022 covid vaccine, I can smell the milkweed flowers! It is quite a thrill. There are taste and smell levels I still have in the sweet and salty levels. 

Memory Jogging

The spicy training to help bring back my senses of taste and smell has not worked for me. 

As I eat, however, I will use memory by telling myself that I know the taste from in the past. I am pleased to report that jog my brain method does help. Melding memory to the food is proving to improve my enjoyment of food. I don’t care if the taste is only my imagination. 

4 comments:

  1. Jogging your memory about tastes is a great way to recapture some of the enjoyment of food.

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    1. Anonymous09 July, 2025

      Marie,
      At first it was slow and after several weeks, food became more tasty.
      May

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  2. I know I'm always pleasantly surprised at how milkweed smells. I'm glad that it's no longer being classed as a noxious weed and thus destroyed. The monarchs need it to survive.

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    1. Anonymous09 July, 2025

      Maryanne,
      Bees are all over the milkweed flowers. A big butterfly came close but dashed away. I think my sitting on the porch startled it.
      May

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