Posted in Monday Musings, Photography, tagged Photography on November 22, 2009 | 23 Comments »
This rose captivated me as I searched through my slide collection on Sunday morning. I lost myself in the beauty, the color and the forms of this lovely pink rose. I had no choice in the matter.
Like Alice in Wonderland, I was drawn within and whirled round and round. I had no choice. And you [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, Photography, Tutorials, tagged Musing, Photography on November 15, 2009 | 19 Comments »
This week’s Monday Macro wanted to be color. I do enjoy working in color, especially with flowers. The image below was scanned from a slide that’s date stamped June 1971 — that’s a long journey on the way-back machine.
I like the colors in this one and the promise of the transformation from rosebud to rose. [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, Photography, tagged Photography on November 8, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Orchids are such beautiful flowers (even if they’re really tulips). Get up close and you’re likely to lose yourself inside.
I have no idea what color this flower was. I took this photo with B&W film (Kodak Plus X) way back in 1970 and rediscovered it last week. I’ve been going through all my old B&W [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, Photography, tagged Photography on November 1, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The leaves are almost gone now. Our pear tree bit the dust (literally) a few weeks ago, but I found these photos I took on one of my neighborhood walks a few years ago. Let’s have one last look at the wonder before we bid farewell to autumn.
Yellow is my favorite fall color. There’s nothing [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, tagged Photography on October 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The “Burning Bush” or Euonymus alatus puts on a fantastic show in the fall. It certainly lives up to it’s name and, given the right conditions, looks like it’s on fire.
My wife chose the perfect location for ours where it “anchors” the southeast corner of our home. It’s perfect because the burning bush needs plenty [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, tagged Musing, Photography on October 18, 2009 | 13 Comments »
“The letter E is over 56 times more common than Q in forming individual English words.” (AskOxford.com) In fact, the letter E occurs more frequently in English words than any other letter in the alphabet. I discovered this years ago when the E key on my TRS-80 model 100 up and died on me.
I wanted [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, tagged Musing on October 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Pear trees send out large leads low on the tree and this makes them unstable when they mature. It was mid-afternoon last Wednesday when the pear tree in our front yard succumbed to the high wind with a huge crack and a boom.
The poor tree was mortally wounded.
I measured the fallen lead. It was 34 [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, tagged Photography on October 4, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I have no idea what flower this is. I can’t name it but I like it just the same. Sometimes names simply aren’t important to me. It happens with songs a lot. I hear a familiar song but can’t name it (or the artist). Names don’t matter if you can get to know something of [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, tagged haiku, Photography, Poetry on September 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Wheels circle round on edge
Not yet now comes past and gone
Unwinding life’s line
I wrote this poem, a haiku, earlier this year. The seed came to me as I clustered on “circles” one day. I got to thinking about the wheels on my bicycle as I ride, how a small patch of tire comes around, touches [...]
Posted in Monday Musings, tagged Ideas, Insight, Photography on September 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
How we see and what we choose to see are only the beginning. “With perception we do not see the world as it is but as we perceive it.” [Serious Creativity -- Edward de Bono]
I took this photo a long time ago. I won’t call it a vase because it is more (and less at [...]
