experiment no.2

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another exploration of a tentative idea

see also experiment no.1, no.3, no.4

experiment no.1

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playing around with various images
not sure where these are going yet
here’s the first one in early formation

See also experiments no.2, no.3, no.4

gardens, woodpiles, rain

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Happy and exhausted from gardening
‘Twas 34C (93F) yesterday
He cleaned the woodpile
Textures intrigued the artist

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Wonderful scent of rain in summer
Gentle and warm, first in two weeks
Remembering childhood summers
Standing in the rain in a bathing suit

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found art (1)

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a magical find in our backyard, under the magnolia tree…

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looking through the scanner lens, closer

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and closer, enthralled by the delicate weaving

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like that of the finest master weavers…

beach art

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still too busy for words
so, an offering
another photo from my collection

this earth

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Another one from a favourite place…

If you are curious about where this photograph was taken, see the comments in the previous post.

still

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I’m still feeling tired and under the weather.
It’s a glorious sunny day at last and the garden is beckoning.
I need to repot the tomato seedlings, still so pitifully small.
I must start hardening the geraniums and other plants for their move outdoors.
Lots to do, so I hope the sun gives me energy.

a photo

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Still here, but too busy, then too tired to write…
but here’s a photo taken on a favourite island…

a rock

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an odd-shaped rock covered in barnacles…
I stop and wonder how ancient it is, how far it has travelled
if it is made up of thousands of compressed fossils
of preserved barnacles and other ancient animal life
and if the metamorphoses and the cycles will still go on…

stones or bones?

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Looking through some of my old photos, I was again struck by these interesting rocks on the Saanich peninsula on southern Vancouver Island, taken in the summer of 2005. They make me think of weathered old bones of some prehistoric creature.