by Marja-Leena 
Spooky sights lingering after last week’s witching
Thick morning fog parting, revealing
Haunting glimpses of a ship, shifting shape
Like Coleridge’s death ship in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Then sun burning away the last wispings of fog
My world shifting back to normal.
by Marja-Leena 
Rain, never ending rain
south Pacific winds
November-like storms,
skipping autumn
With ancient sonnenstein
beseech the sun’s return
by Marja-Leena 
On this glorious sunny Sunday morning, all the more precious when sunshine has been so scarce this fall, I spotted a very delicate, very perfect silky spider’s web outside one window. I asked my husband, a much better photographer than I am, to try and capture this ephemeral creation, so barely noticeable and quickly disappearing with the sun’s southward movement. The photos disappointed but some photoshopping gave some interesting results, though still rather too delicate to show well on this other web.
I am quite envious of Dave’s photos of spider webs.
And that reminds me, I’m pleased and proud that one of my favourite images, Footprints in the Sand has been published on Qarrtsiluni. It’s a reworking of one that I posted here quite some time ago. If you are interested in submitting something for the current issue of this superb online literary and art magazine, the deadline is tomorrow.
by Marja-Leena 
awake at 4:30 am, enthralled
by brilliant moonlight
dancing lights on the water
like dreams of water ballet
by Marja-Leena 
Eight years ago, when I had an exhibition of my works in a gallery in Edmonton, Alberta, my husband and I decided to deliver my framed works by car and make this journey into a bit of a holiday. One of the highlights of this memorable trip was seeing the Hoodoos near North Battleford, which I’ve mentioned here a few times before. The other was a visit to the fantastic Royal Tyrrell Museum. It’s famous for it’s paleontological collection, which I certainly enjoyed, but I was very excited by the fossil collection and snapped a lot of photos of these.
Being in glass cases with low light, not all the photographs turned out well. Here are a few of my favourites. Like the hoodoos, some of these images became incorporated in several of my prints.
This one was used in Paths XII and Paths XIII/Nexus and others.
This one appeared in several pieces including Nexus V, Nexus VII and Nexus/Blue II and III
See what happens when I go through old photographs!
by Marja-Leena
…inspired by this week’s theme ‘lapsi’ (child) at Valokuvatorstai (PhotoThursday)
by Marja-Leena
This photo has become one of my favourites and is now my new desktop image. I wish you could see it much larger.
by Marja-Leena
Ugly or beautiful? Isn’t it odd that it depends on which hat I’m wearing.
Am I judging the state of the property? Or am I in my artist’s state of mind?
by Marja-Leena 
Another one from this photo expedition
