chiaroscuro

Phote Quote: Summer Rose

"Tis the last rose of summer,

Left blooming alone;

All her lovely companions

 Are faded and gone."

~  Thomas Moore, The Last Rose    of Summer, 1830

Our own rose plant...a bit too tired after a dry, sultry summer.

overcast

We have a rooster and his team, somewhere in the fields across....who can't stop his call until the sun is on his head. The co-co-ro-co reconnects me instantly to my childhood, and our own villages...so i love it, but today with the overcast sky, he seems to have gone back to sleep sooner . . .

river

blue

August breeze

flying kites

On  Independence Day (August 15) and until a few days after, it's kind of a historical ritual to fly kites high in the sky as an expression of freedom and happiness...


playing out 
more string to the wind ~
the August sky reverberating 
with the laughter of children
flying kites 

....and this another August sky...the birds...ever and forever celebrating their freedom...

Photo Quote - Hermann Hesse -I

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.” ~  Hermann Hesse, Demian 

August wind

August sky

Photo Quote

“Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit.” ― David Archuleta

gentle August

Not a poem per se... may be a line from an story, yet to be written

crepuscular

Trailing - 04.12.2010 / 04.08.2014

For a change - an Art and a Model

Been working on Van Gogh's Model....this summer. . .

Art: Van Gogh, Flame Nettle in a Flowerpot, June-July 1886. Oil on canvas, 42 x 22 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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Here she is...the model, Flame Nettle or Coleus as we call her, among my plants...