Old bushel basket with summer daisies.
No bike lock needed
Enjoy!
Ecuadorean green vine snake – Oxybelis brevirostris the size of an anklet! Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador
My entry for the Public Domain Image Mash-up challenge for T-Shirt Revolution – I seem to have a penchant for mirroring images, old watches and big wings… My source images (I think I got them all!) / / / / / /
Postman butterfly feeding on a summer daisy.
I loved the colour and texture of this old suitcase that I spotted in Bo’Ness Railway station in Scotland. Bo’Ness is a small town on the banks of the River Forth which is home to a very well preserved steam railway. The old station has been extremely well preserved as an early 20th century train station. This photograph won 1st prize in Stirling and District Camera Club’s Annual Print competition for 2008.
Watercolor paintig / 300g / 30cm x 21cm
The waxing moon, a couple days after first quarter, with “The Golden Handle” visable. The Golden Handle is formed by sunlight shining on the rim of the crater, but not the crater floor.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, / Silence the pianos and with muffled drum / Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead / Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, / Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, / Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, / My working week and my Sunday rest, / My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; / I thought that love would last for ever:...I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; / Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; / Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. / For nothing now can ever come to any good. Auden “Door #9” evokes one of my most favourite of Auden poems…full of the passionate cri de coeur of a lover who has lost his/her love and speaks in the throes of overwhelming grief and despair….it is agonizing to read…the lover is gone…death? maybe not …just not here…no not here.... / I think many of us can identify with the powerful imagery in Audens verse…the cry in the last line resounds…it is a bitter cry straight from the heart Watercolour on Saunders Waterford Rough Paper.. / The lock in the middle of the wood panel symbolizes more than just a door that has been closed for long time..it is the end of something and there is no going back…the lock is rusted and there is no longer an opening. / “Nine is a very significant number, and references to it occurs in mythology, the occult, the Bible, to name a few, and in mathematical science it possesses properties and powers which are found in no other number….it is the number of finality or judgement”....from my painting 9 / The Key / The Red Doorknob / Door #6 / Door#5 / Door #4 / Door#3 / Door #2 / Door #1
Something we all should have in every single room of our house and work place … like a gentle reminder …
Something along the lines of how people sinking within work and just the general busyness of life often reach for caffeine to save themselves… Enjoy!
Prince charming drops by for a cuppa.
My entry into the consumption challenge. This one’s from the heart, or should I say, the wallet?
/ “Door #4” is part of the Collection “Everyday Things” and is of course the fourth door…like Doors 1 and 2, it is not a painting, but a drawing, this time in Conte crayon…I love door knockers and refuse to add a bell to my front door…I polish mine so that it shines a welcome to all, but I made this one a bit oxidized, a little verdigrised to add some texture and interest to the painting…I never want to make it too literal... Conte crayon drawing on Clayboard Knock with tremor.. / These are Caesars.. / Should they be at Home / Flee as if you trod unthinking / On the Foot of Doom These receded to accostal / Centuries ago.. / Should they rend you with “How are you” / What have you to show? E. Dickinson / Door#3 / Door #2 / Door #1
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Jean M. Laffitau
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