Seek shade
I am a shade-seeker, though I love the concept of sun. If I have a choice between sitting in the sun and sitting in the shade, I almost always choose shade...
to read more about this photo, visit here.
14.7.07
13.7.07
We Know Each Other by Heart
My brother, Peter Shaughnessy, makes wood and mixed media sculptural "boxes" that often have human characteristics and always embody a human motive, emotion, circumstance ... life. He made the box (above right) as a wedding gift for Tim and me. If you like his artwork as much as I do and are interested in seeing more, please visit Peter's website.
11.7.07
Balance
A photo from my friend, Lawrence Wright (aka northdevonfarmer) motivated me to write a longer-than-usual comment on his Flickr photo, because it reminds me of how much I love the way we humans make art out of seemingly ordinary objects, everyday emotions or simply the impulse to create:
perhaps along the way
you see a stone,
your creative mind sees more
than stone
you pick it up
handle the stone's weight, its' heft
feel its' shape, the smooth roundness
you look around,
see a pointed stone nearby
your imagination sees the two
together
in such a way that you
transform both stones -- and more:
you change their context,
the environment in which they exist
and when you leave, there is
a balance struck
between these two simple old shapes
and the air and
the earth beneath them
waiting for the next passerby to see
and understand
and delight
and imagine
6.7.07
Photo Friday: Busy
Gabe and his friends Kyle and Jack began the demolition of an existing landscape for one of my clients, two years ago. They removed a waist-high raised bed that occupied about one third of the space as well as a dilapidated fence, unsafe deck, and huge dumpster full of rocks, clay, weeds and dead shrubs. The result of our last two years of off-and-on work on this site is a peaceful, private garden. I have been enjoying documenting the garden's progress on my garden blog Raven's Nest.
Posted for the Photo Friday theme, Busy
18.6.07
17.6.07
14.6.07
Photo Friday: When she dances
When she dances
when she dances
earth and sky
bend with her
fire leaps
like hands
telling stories
river moves
in calligraphic
graces
mist shrouds
mountain shoulder
hidden-- Maureen Shaughnessy
Today's post began with a randomly chosen prompt from Poetry Thursday, writing some words inspired by an image. I made the above collage for no other reason than "I had to," and the words just came as I watched what I was making.
Check out the other poetry posts for this week by clicking this button:
The Poetry Thursday crowd is on summer break which gives me "official" permission to do what I always do anyway -- that is, to ignore the weekly prompt. Or not.
also posted for the theme, Active:
13.6.07
Trinity
Life spins light into
golden thread,
weaves warp and weft --
a tapestry of experience
that falls, unique for each of us,
from the loom. -- M.S.
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Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
12.6.07
Rocky Mountain Iris
Iris missouriensis
Found growing in meadows and along streambanks, often where apparently very dry, but always where moisture is abundant until flowering time, in western and central parts of MT. Also from B.C. to souther Calfornia, east of the Cascades in Washington, east. to South Dakota, North Dakota and south to New Mexico.
11.6.07
Lemonweed
Lithospermum ruderale
Watch the slideshow with Flickr's new format. It's really beautiful: Gathering the Light
10.6.07
9.6.07
Fenceline and Storm
You go through farm fields on a winding dirt road up into the mountains. The valleys have been cultivated and the mountains are left wild. One of the things I LOVE about Montana!
8.6.07
7.6.07
Grove Shifting in Afternoon Light
worth viewing larger on black: 'Grove Shifting in Afternoon Light' On Black
part of the set, Solitude in Sepia
6.6.07
P-Town Painter Mounts Solo Show
Live Painting Sol Ball, originally uploaded by skuz.
If you're an art lover, and or live near or in Portland, please check out my blog post about my son's upcoming art exhibit.
Among Friends
5.6.07
The Road
If you'd like to see this photo larger, click here.
I have put together a set of photos from the same shoot, all can be seen here: Solitude in Sepia
4.6.07
Remnants of Former Residents
3.6.07
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