Basho speaks
of seeking
balance & composure.
Where
to begin?
Wordless Wednesday
7 Eleven
Seven random images posted the 11th of each month…
1. Collage: Red Bull
2. Hard Ground Still Life
3. Yellow Wildflowers
4. The Mighty North in B&W
5. I Miss Colorado. Stupid COVID…
6. Collage: A Little Edgar Allan Poe
7. It’s a Wrap
Wordless Wednesday
Sandstone-Limestone Swirl
Living Vicariously…
We’d be looking forward to another September sojourn in Colorado right about now but, well, better not to linger on what might have been…
So.
Next year, fall of 2021, we’re hoping
- nothing
will prevent us from spending another week or so out there again. (COVID — I’m talking to YOU…) In the meantime, YouTube hiking videos are a glorious, if imperfect, way to celebrate the tangible beauty and mystique of the Rocky Mountains.
We continue to rack up “Ooh, let’s do THIS trail!” potential hikes for our next visit.
Here’s a video we enjoyed over lunch today. Ypsilon Mountain is one of my favorites although we’ve never hiked it, just enjoyed it from a distance. I took this photo in September 2017. A glorious peak!!
A Few Touches of Blue
Into the Depths
enthusiasms in decline
or already dead
motivations lacking
or never-were
faltering footprints of self-pity
give way to immobilization
boot straps — broken nubs…
curled up, knees to forehead
sunken cheeks, cool to the touch
eyes a-glaze…
covers in a heap, empty side of the room
noon whistles blasts
the requisite three and a half minutes
yes, covid is a thing
but, girl, you’ve got to
pull yourself together
Painted Grain Silo
A recent cell phone ‘dump’ yielded these photos from May of last year that I forgot I’d taken. An Australian artist, Guido van Helton, painted these incredible images on a 110-foot tall grain silo in my husband’s home town of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Here’s a link with more information.
Driven to Abstraction
This is a photo of the ‘background’ for a page I’ve prepped in the altered book I’m working on. I almost hate to cover it up! Anyway, it’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Color = POWER. Bam!!!
Art is fun!!
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