On Monday mornings, Maria wakes up thinking about her increasingly popular Monday morning video, “Good Monday Morning From Bedlam Farm.”  Her videos are sweet and gentle invitations to the way we start the week, usually doing the morning chores with the dogs, donkeys and sheep.

As always, she brings her own artistic style and vision to the videos, which attract large numbers of followers. As a visual artist, it was perhaps inevitable that she would turn her creativity towards her videos, her artistic films of the farm at the start of the week.

After she  records the video, she comes to her studio, the Ed Gulley bench on the back porch and edits her film and then puts it up on her blog. She also, you may notice, has stolen one of my hats, now joining the substantial collection of my clothing she has “borrowed” to wear or use in some of her fiber works.

For all of its headaches, new technologies have awakened creative people to all kinds of new possibilities. Just a few years ago, it was unthinkable to take a high-quality video with a cell phone that doesn’t need a plug and then edit the video and post it online while sitting on your porch.

It’s hard for me to take that for granted.