Summer Flowers

 

The weather has suddenly become summer-like and so the flowers are in full bloom across the fields. I was struck today by the gentle and quiet beauty they add all around the house. I even brought a few into the house, put them into a vase and created an "arrangement". I really did arrange them too, with a piece of tall grass from the field making an upward thrust out of the complementary colors of the lupine and the buttercups. A beautiful centerpiece for the kitchen table.

The clover blossoms were the final piece for the triadic color scheme, with the lupine blue enough to count as a blue. They all have such a wonderful texture and delicate color structure.

Memorial Day Blossoms

The apple tree down front has blossomed almost overnight with all the rain we've had the past few weeks and I couldn't resist going down and finding some images from it this morning. The colors, the shapes of the blossoms are so fascinating and the tiny drops of water left from the early morning thundershower that crossed the bay add another element as well.

Of course, this is the time of year that the new growth and the blossoms as a part of that are showing up everywhere, and each individual species has it's own particular look and color. They are truly an amazing part of nature.

The "Islands" Show

Our NAHS Chapter at the HS is having the Induction Show at the Wing Gallery on Thursday after school at 4 p.m., and It will be a show of student works wrapped around the theme of "Islands". Big workshop tomorrow so I will mount their things at the last minute on Thursday.

I got a shot of the island at Sullivan Harbor on the way home tonight...

Blossoms and Blocks

That time of year again, with the blossoms just beginning, so I went down front to shoot a few of the buds on the trees and ended up on the shore with the tide out. It was getting dim, so I had little time to do much with the shots and exposures, so I took a few, found some sea glass on the beach, abnd then came back to the house and downloaded. Here are three.

Down Front

It was a dark dreary day today, but there's always something to photograph. I never get tired of it, but there is also so very much that I want to do I don't always know where to start.

Here are a couple of my recent favorites that have been right in front of my nose for a while, and I finally found them.

Where Have I Been?

Buried in work... too much to do, not enough time in the day to appreciate what I see around me. Just keeping the head down and plunging ahead while pulling any loose ends together. Here's a bunch of photos, random subjects.

Plastic Easter

The books say that the resurrection of Christ is an event that has come down to modern society over a two millennium time span. What do we have to show for it? How is our collective faith expressed in contemporary culture? Does everything come back to oil? I mean after all, plastic is a hydrocarbon product and perhaps the plastic Easter Egg is simply our own exercise in irony... for what it is worth.

B - Day Photos

I had a great birthday with a German Chocolate Cake finale, remembering what my Mom always did for my birthday (it usually rained) thanks to Lynne's cooking skills!

I'm not exactly sure what the metaphor is for these photos, but tracks are something left behind that is evidence or an imprint of what passed, and a sunset is just a a sunset. I won't comment on that as a metaphor, but it is obvious isn't it?

Spring Blossoms

The Amaryllis in the house is blossoming, and I'm not sure exactly where it came from, but it has been here awhile and has a "history" from or around this family. I read a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe this past winter and have a senior student who had never seen O'Keeffe's work and yet peripherally approached its style on her own, and I connected her with the artist just this week. It was so rewarding to see the light come on in her eyes. I know I have mentioned O'Keeffe before in this blog, but I can't help myself.

April Fools!

Yes, and I often am. A number of photos of the storm.