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 For the past few weeks I have gradually become aware of our descent into the dark days of winter. It is the winter solstice today. In the studio shorter days provide some fallow time needed for ideas to germinate.  Pomegranates are ripe in my garden now, my winter fruit. The rich pinks and red of the fruit offers passion and warmth so welcome in this season.

     In Greek Mythology, when Hades stole Persephone away to the underworld, he tricked her into eating six pomegranate seeds. Anyone who eats or drinks in the underworld is condemned by the Fates to spend eternity there. Zeus commanded Hades to release Persephone because her mother, the goddess of the harvest mourned for her, and the earth had ceased to be fertile. Persephone escaped but because she ate six pomegranate seeds she was condemned to return to the underworld for six months

each year to rule as Hades Queen.