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I’m not completely sure what Thoreau meant by that phrase but those are the words that surface as I review these photos.  They do capture a bit of the mood of my mind.

Appreciating the light.  Both intrigued and challenged by the darkness.  In an abstract space, and feeling like that’s not a bad space to be in creatively, but …

… also knowing that, especially on a Monday morning, one needs to find some focus.  Or fake it really well.

I’m hoping another cup of coffee might help. Have a good day, folks. 😉

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a view of the window with curtain sunlit …

and leaves, green and gold, through the rippled glass.

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For the past few years, through the rippled glass, I have most often photographed a nearby vacant lot where dandelions would grow rampant.

But in time all things change.

In late spring, a new neighbor moved in and he has turned the field into a garden.

It is quite lush with green mounds of this, green hills of that and …

probably green peas spiraling up a new terrace made of string.

When the wind blows just right, I can catch a glimpse of gold squash blossoms.

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A little oak in the making, growing next door to the muffler shop.

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For many weeks, I’ve admired its shape at the window, and how the morning and afternoon light fills its form. A beautiful green vessel, for sure, that empty sake bottle. I’m always shifting things about but that bottle I have not moved since placing it at that window.  I began to wonder why.

I think it is the layering of the bottle’s illuminated form against the living, shifting greens of the oak tree outside.  As the wind blows and the branches shift, bits of blue sky or gray sky are intermittently revealed. The background is constantly in flux.  The scene of bottle against tree is a still life always in motion.

And yet even as I celebrate the serendipitous layering of light and color at the kitchen window, I also could not help but wonder what would the scene reveal with the absence of color.

Simply beauty expressed in a different way.

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I purchased the little pot of fennel as an experiment.  Just to try growing something I’d never tried before.  After an initial mishap involving watering (or lack thereof), the herb seems to be doing alright.  Still haven’t really cooked with it yet, but I do love the shadows it casts.

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At the beginning of May, I did a post, spring images through the double rippled glass.  Now that May nears its end, and the weather is almost consistently warm, one set of windows has been removed.  And guess what? The remaining window is a bit pitted and rippled in places too!

The bright gold forsythia flowers visible in the previous post are gone, but as I recently tried to convince a young friend, even with no flowers, green plants and hanging vines are quite beautiful.

Through the single pane, the morning light seems to shine differently, and the spring winds seem to send the vegetation moving in a different dance. My imagination is still stirred at what’s captured just by pausing for a moment.  The following image reminds me of Munch’s The Scream … though in a happier way.

And these images (only the last one altered in GIMP) remind me of those forest portals where reside dragons and other magical folk … though that thought must be influenced by recent viewings of Game of Thrones.

And, if I lift my camera above the spring green, and look up into the sky?  This is what I see, through the rippled glass.

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Branches viewed while on a short walk this afternoon.  Yes, I played around with the color and such a bit.  I think the green of spring is finally calling to me. 😉

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