the sun shone bright upon the clouds. I thought a storm might come, but it passed.
Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’
and while looking up in somerville …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged blue, clouds, colors, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, sky, Somerville on June 8, 2014| 2 Comments »
while walking in the back bay, I paused and looked up …
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, Boston Back Bay, Branches, colors, Inspiration, leaves, life, nature, neighborhoods, Photography, trees, urban landscape on June 7, 2014| 8 Comments »
new postcard available
Posted in Inspiration, tagged angels, architectural features, colors, Edward Burne-Jones, Inspiration, Photography, postcard, pre-raphaelites, stained glass, stationery, Trinity Church in Copley Square on June 5, 2014| 4 Comments »
It is always a treat to walk through Trinity Church in Boston’s Copley Square and to have the opportunity to photograph the architectural features, especially the stained glass windows. This particular detail of a gold-winged angel is in the Edward Burne-Jones window, Wonder of the Shepherds (1882). This image is now available as a postcard in the church Book Shop, located in the building undercroft. You can read more about Burne-Jones’s adoration of angels in this 2006 article by his biographer, Fiona MacCarthy. Learn more about the Book Shop here.
a somerset sky
Posted in Inspiration, tagged art, books, colors, imagination, Inspiration, literature, Of Human Bondage, Philip Carey, sky, W. Somerset Maugham, watercolor on June 4, 2014| 4 Comments »
Recently, a friend invited me to join her for an “art-in,” and there she provided me with paper, pens and watercolors and encouraged me to paint whatever came to mind. I decided to paint what I call a little somerset sky.
a somerset sky
Its origin is this: Of late, W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage has found its way into my hands, and there is a particular color-filled passage that I return to. It is near the end of the book. After an eventful night, Philip Carey, the main character …
“He leaned against the parapet and looked toward the morning. At that hour the great city was like a city of the dead. The sky was cloudless, but the stars were dim at the approach of day; there was a light mist on the river, and the great buildings on the north side were like palaces in an enchanted island. … It was all of an unearthly violet, troubling somehow and awe-inspiring; but quickly everything grew pale, and cold, and grey. Then the sun rose, a ray of yellow gold stole across the sky, and the sky was iridescent .”
Thanks, Carol, for the opportunity to put brush to paper. More about Carol’s beautiful artwork later this summer.
Have a good day, folks. 😉
an empty bottle at the window
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, colors, glass, green, Inspiration, nature, oak tree, Photography, sake bottle on June 2, 2014| 7 Comments »
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.
from small beginnings …
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged food, gardening, green monster, humor, Inspiration, nature, Photography, potato crop, potatoes, tall windows on June 1, 2014| 5 Comments »
Earlier this spring, I found a little potato sprouting in the pantry drawer. I cut up the potato and planted the sprouts in a big green pot on a table next to several tall windows. Lots of light shines down even through the widening leaves of the oak tree outside. No high hopes for a great potato crop but I did have a wee hope to see just a bit of green poke through the soil. Guess what?
I have in my midst what one friend described as “a lovely green monster” that any moment now is going to shout, “Feed me!”
Are actual potatoes growing beneath the dark soil? Will I grow my first potato crop ever in a big green pot sitting on a sun-drenched table in Somerville, MA? Stay tuned, my friends, stay tuned. 😉
shades of gray
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged beauty, clouds, colors, gray, Inspiration, nature, Photography, sky on May 31, 2014| 2 Comments »
browns, mostly
Posted in Inspiration, tagged abstract, animals, beauty, brown, colors, Inspiration, mallard ducks, nature, Photography, urban landscape on May 29, 2014| 3 Comments »
After an unplanned course of color-filled blog posts this week, I was wondering if I could carry on and what the next one might be. I had no idea today as I took a late lunch break beside the pond in Copley Square. And then a little visitor paraded by. And then, just like that, I knew I had my next color, with so many of its shades displayed.
red
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, food, food photography, Inspiration, Photography, red, red onion on May 28, 2014| 5 Comments »
slices of red onion, bathed in light
gold
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged clouds, colors, gold, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, sky, Somerville, sunset on May 28, 2014| 7 Comments »
sunlit clouds in a somerville sky
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