rust art


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Posted by Marja-Leena on August 31, 2010 | Comments (5)

boiler beauty


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or, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder....

(Original photos were taken by husband, then much loved and played with by me!)

Posted by Marja-Leena on August 29, 2010 | Comments (7)

a volunteer


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This datura emerged in my pot of sweet bell peppers, not quite as large as the one that grew in another pot three years ago.

As it did back then, it still makes me think of some prehistoric giant plants, ready to take over the world, maybe coloured by a book that I'm currently rereading some twenty years later: Rumors of Spring by Richard Grant. Highly relevant in today's troubled ecology, I must say, even as it is fantasy/science fiction.

Posted by Marja-Leena on August 24, 2010 | Comments (13)

shadow play


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This afternoon's moment of shapely shadows playing on white curtain,
recalling yesterday's fleeting, precious ephemeral instant:
a hummingbird's shadow,
too quick to be captured with camera,
as he feeds at the hanging red ivy geraniums.

Posted by Marja-Leena on August 21, 2010 | Comments (5)

contrasts


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cool and drizzly after hot and dry days and nights
soft leaf on hard angular body and sharp spines
dark against light,
a hint of coming change of seasons

Posted by Marja-Leena on August 19, 2010 | Comments (6)

still


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still here, too hot to think
enduring another heat wave
by keeping still
seeking cool corners
in these dog days

Posted by Marja-Leena on August 17, 2010 | Comments (9)

triskaidekaphobia


Another new word for me!

It is Friday the 13th and though I'm not a sufferer of this 'ailment' I found this article about its history very interesting.

Posted by Marja-Leena on August 13, 2010 | Comments (2)