Sunday, August 31, 2014

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.





Thursday, August 28, 2014

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 . . .

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Sunday, August 17, 2014

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...

Thursday, August 14, 2014

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 

Monday, August 11, 2014

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

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

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Saturday, August 2, 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.



&


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