I simply wondered, what would happen if I froze the petals?
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when the rose fell apart …
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged abstract, beauty, colors, frozen, ice, imagination, Inspiration, petals, Photography, roses, water on January 20, 2015| 6 Comments »
green in winter
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged gardening, green, indoor gardening, Inspiration, nature, Photography, plants, posters, sprouts, wall art on January 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Two new posters available in my Zazzle shop. Just click on the image for more information on availability. The first image is of spicy cress sprouting in a shell I found on Revere Beach. The second image is of clover, a “weed” I recently learned is edible, so in a little clay pot it now grows next to my other herbs.
new crops
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged colors, indoor gardening, Inspiration, nasturtium, nature, Photography, plants on January 12, 2015| 1 Comment »
And in the bucket where my mini crop of potatoes once grew, a wonderfully gnarly growth of nasturtium. No blooms quite yet, but I’m waiting.
cuban oregano
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, cuban oregano, food, food photography, gifts, herbs, Inspiration, monotype, Photography on December 31, 2014| 5 Comments »
It is a gift that keeps giving. The herb with one hundred names. Oregano on steroids. My friend simply introduced it as cuban oregano when he handed me the little pot several years ago.
It is a hardy succulent that smells wonderful when you rake your finger gently across a leaf. And even if you aren’t gentle, and a piece falls to the soil, no problem. It roots quite easily. From my one pot, I now have several pots of oregano. Please keep in mind that some of these “pots” are the size of demitasse cups but … they are still wonderful, edible, bits of green to tuck in sunlit places.
P.S. You can view some green images in this previous post. 😉
winter growth
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged colors, cress, food, food photography, gardening, herbs, indoor gardening, Inspiration, microgreens, nature, Photography, plants, simplicity on December 29, 2014| 2 Comments »
The instructions say to plant seeds in a shallow dish and move as needed for best light. Instructions I can follow! Not sure how I’m going to serve up this first little harvest. Maybe with slices of avocado and tomatoes on toasted bread rubbed with garlic. Theoretically, this cress is a spicy herb. We shall see. I’m not sure that I grow enough at a time to benefit from the nutritional value, but the simple act of planting a few seeds in a bit of dirt and watching the sprouts rise in the sun, that’s worth the effort alone.
just nested bowls in the kitchen
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged bowls, colors, kitchen, Photography on December 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »
it must be part of the creative journey
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged african violets, beauty, colors, indoor gardening, Inspiration, nature, Photography, plants on December 14, 2014| 4 Comments »
It better be, to crawl around on the kitchen floor, photographing the undersides of African violets. It is certainly a pleasure to look up at what is so rarely seen. There are two plants, both needing to be repotted. A winter task I am looking forward to doing and then I hope to tuck the plants away into a warm winter spot where I won’t mess with them so much. One I’m definitely watering too much but the other has new buds forming. Perhaps it is of hardier stock. We’ll see …
glass on the table
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged abstract, beauty, colors, diffraction, glass, gold, Inspiration, light, perspective, Photography, reflection, refraction on December 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
That same day there was a glass on the table, and it too filled with light. As you might imagine, it was a very hard day to concentrate. It would have been easy to pull down some shades or find a dark corner, but I do declare, I just couldn’t do it. I have no regrets even though I had to stay up a bit late to finish some writing assignments.
cloth
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged abstract, beauty, cloth, colors, fun, imagination, Inspiration, light, perspective, Photography on December 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Not flower petals. No view through rippled windows. It is a piece of cloth draped over a chair. Yes, in that same kitchen with those magnificent windows. A bright ray of sun shone through and settled in the various folds.
The only reason I knew to look up from my laptop and in that direction was because the sun was burning my arm. My camera was near. I did not adjust the settings but what I captured I liked. The impressions of light and suggestion of form and the shifting shades of colors.
Eventually I did shift settings so that I might capture just a bit more of reality.
And after that I could play again in the light.
orange mint in the hallway
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged Branches, colors, food photography, herbs, Inspiration, mint, orange mint, Photography on December 4, 2014| 3 Comments »
