long weekend (3)
We are enjoying fantastic summer weather on this last long weekend of summer with Labour Day today. I’m enjoying a short spell of peace and quiet while our visitors have gone canoeing on the sea.
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by Marja-Leena by Marja-Leena industrial art
There’s beauty even on an industrial site if you open your eyes wide.
by Marja-Leena a malady
I think I’m suffering from what one excellent writer and blogger calls Seasonal Blog Entropy.
I like the many suggestions in the comments, like posting photos!
by Marja-Leena stairway
On the trail in Writing-on-Stone Park.
Lovely and cool here at last, so I’m going through my summer list. Friends arriving tomorrow!
by Marja-Leena more rock
A picture speaks a thousand words.
Another photo of some of the thousands of rocks at Writing-on-Stone Park.
by Marja-Leena rust
looking through some photos I took around the studio last spring…
by Marja-Leena pensive
It’s been quiet for a few days here as I recover from having a lot of visitors in the midst of a heat wave. Though it’s a little cooler today, I’m still feeling tired and uninspired. Instead I’ve been doing some needed housekeeping on my computer, and then rewarded myself with another tour of our photos from the recent trip to Alberta. I’m thinking again about how I may use the Writing-on-Stone Park photos, like the one above, in my new work.
Suiting my pensive mood, I’ve also enjoyed a tour through Simon Marsden’s moody and darkly romantic photos (introduced by wood s lot). Naturally I like his Standing Stones the most. The arches and the ruins appeal as well for they have been elements in my past work.
Then a little bit of opera music lifted my spirits some more, though the video itself is too cheesy for my taste. I know and love Dvorak’s Song to the Moon, this time sung by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. (Kiitos, thanks to tuumailu for the link!) Nothing like this kind of art to nurse a pensive mood and then inspire! Does it work that way for you too?
by Marja-Leena self-portrait 6
Here’s another self-portrait, one that turned out rather Andy Warhol-ish, don’t you agree? Maybe it’s also a reflection of my overheated mind and body as the temperatures continue to be HOT here!
Here are the other ones that I’ve contributed to the self-portrait marathon: the first self-portrait, the second, the third, the fourth and the fifth.
And the super slide-show of the participants’ portraits. There are a few days left to join in as it ends on July 8th.