03 Thursday Mar 2016
Posted in Caribbean, Painting, still life, Travel, Uncategorized, watercolor
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art, arts, beach, Caribbean, painting, pebbles, St Martin, still live, texture, travel, watercolor
For all we really do is stand here
in a springtime rain and wonder if
time is passing by or we are passing
through time. Grasping every moment,
every drop, every breeze, every tick
of time. And do what we should do.
Beach pebbles – 14×10 watercolor
02 Wednesday Mar 2016
Posted in Art, Caribbean, Food, Painting, still life, Travel, Uncategorized
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art, arts, food, painting, St Martin, still life, Susana Weber, texture, travel, vacation, watercolor
Are you done with those yet? The light isn’t right… it’s not going to be right today. Well… alrig__…. Hey!
Avacados – 12×9 watercolor
29 Monday Feb 2016
Posted in Art, Caribbean, Painting, Travel, Travel ~ Photography/Art/Food/Culture, Uncategorized
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art, challenging yourself, inspiration, learning, paint sketching, reawakening, special place, St Martin, travel, vacation, waking up, Watercolors
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
From “The Waking”- Theodore Roethke – 1953
It’s a sad thing when your electronic devices remind you that your last post was one year ago… Very sad indeed… Sigh…
Then… Good morning. Waking. Inspired, as always by a tropical sun and warm breeze. Making use of my time and all these reflections and shadows. I’m waking… Going where I need to go.
03 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Africa, Photography, Travel, Travel ~ Photography/Art/Food/Culture
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Africa, animals, culture, earth, inspiration, intensity, landscape, learning, nature, Ngorogoro Crater, outdoors, safari, sky, special place, Tanzania, travel
Hovering just above the red earth…
trying not to touch the ground.
What is this magic place?
No, no… don’t tell me.
I really don’t want to know.
I just want to stay a little longer.
Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
The earth and sky touch each other in a different way. There is a primitive look to the way the clouds hang at the edges before they curl over and flow gracefully on their way across the 20 miles of open space. They move in slow motion, unable to break through an invisible ceiling that prevents them from spilling onto the floor of the crater. Like an enormous stage set for a grand performance, the curtains have gone up and we’re speechless at the prelude.
Taking a break from the studio, family obligations and the daily routine of “life at home” we’ve ventured off to see what there is to see in Africa… well… in Tanzania, anyway. Some other parts of Africa are having their medical and/or political issues… but… Africa is a very big place… a very big continent, actually. And Tanzania has something we’ve been longing to see… very large spaces of unspoiled land where animals roam without barriers. These areas are protected. Access to humans is controlled but, poaching does occur sometimes. The animals are free to go where they want and some do migrate in and out of the parks and conservation areas. Some stay within the relative safety of the controlled parks. I say ‘relative’ because predators are everywhere and few species are spared being the prey of lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, eagles and others. Some animals are food for others and nothing is wasted… everything nourishes the cycle of life in this amazing place.
26 Friday Jul 2013
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clouds, finding beauty, inspiration, Italy, monuments, photography, rain, Rome, travel, wet streets
… just wallow in the soggyness of a day filled with angry skies and downpours. There is no use wasting the day. Put on those wellies, put the camera in a plastic bag to protect those vital electronics and go forth and find the beauty in the day. It’s out there… just go find it!
In the Spanish Piazza… Ave Gratia Plena, Dominvs Tecvm, Benedicta Tv In Mvlieribvs… Once a year, firefighters scale the monument on the Feast day and offer fresh flowers.
The rain provides a reflection that is otherwise not there… and an opportunity to capture the forms without the crowds.
Stop and warm your hands over the chestnut vendor’s roaster near the Trevi Fountain.
23 Tuesday Jul 2013
… on a miserably rainy morning in the Eternal City… and you want to be out walking around seeing things and absorbing all there is to see and do in a magnificent capital city like Rome. What do you do? You go out and do all of that… and take your camera with you to record what other people are doing out on a rainy morning! What else?
Catch up on your email on the Spanish Steps.
Enjoy getting your picture taken… sorta.
Rest your feet and hope nobody takes your picture with this silly orange poncho on.
Ask young beautiful girls to take your picture… it works sometimes.
Stay inside and check out who didn’t show up for duty.
Try to ignore your jet-lag as long as possi..b..zzzzzz
Make a note to self to pack your own suitcase.
Forget about the puddles… it’s just a dress.
Sit down, eat gelato, meet new people and talk to everyone.
Is there more? Oh yes… later… Ciao
BTW… from the FREE Dictionary
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Word History: Ciao first appears in English in 1929 in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, which is set in northeast Italy during World War I. It is likely that this is where Hemingway learned the word, for ciau in Venetian dialect means “servant, slave,” and, as a casual greeting, “I am your servant.” Ciau corresponds to standard Italian schiavo; both words come from Medieval Latin sclavus, “slave.” A similar development took place with servus, the Classical Latin word for “slave,” in southern Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Poland, where servus is used as a casual greeting like ciao. At the opposite end of the world, in Southeast Asia, one even sees words meaning “slave” or “your slave” that have developed into pronouns of the first person, again to indicate respect and humility.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved
05 Thursday Jul 2012
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brick buildings, canals, city of lowell massachusetts, factories, garment industry, history, merrimack river, mills, past, photography, river, scott kelby, travel, world wide photo
The dates of the 5th Annual Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk 2012 (that is a mouthful!!) have not been announced but I’m waiting to hear!! I missed last year’s walk which took place in October. Winners images are posted on the Worldwide Photowalk site from last October. On two days last fall there were 27,924 people of all skill levels… with all kinds of cameras… walking in 1118 different groups and capturing the world they found where ever they were. It’s a GREAT experience to meet other people interested in Photography and walk a common route that is planned by a group leader and then see that experience through everyone’s eyes. It’s amazing how different the captures are. Leaders select a representative image from what the group captures and submits it to the Photo Walk headquarters where winners are selected for prizes. Of course, the real prize is going on the walk to begin with.
On one of the WWPW I’ve participated in, the walk was through an old mill town along the Merrimack River in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. The site of the mills and factories along the rivers and canals that supplied the power almost 2 centuries ago was a mixture of sad at the results of the ravages of time… and delight at the rediscovery of the marvelously large spaces that are being renovated and turned into living and working spaces in the heart of the cities. These images are from that walk among the red brick buildings where you could imagine the giant machines turning out shoes by the millions and fabrics to support the garment industry for a westward expanding nation… and thousands of young women coming from the farms of the northeast to take jobs in the hundreds of factories along the Merrimack.
