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When everything is seen as One, we return to the Source
and stay where we have always been.. -Seng-t'san
9" x 12"
Arches 140#CP
Masa Paper
We've been visiting some festivals and traveling the foothills of North Carolina enjoying the incredibly glorious weather! Temps in the 70s (cool for me!) sunshine, blue skies, and the changing colors of the hills and valleys. Though I learned to 'toss' paint (splatter) from Karlyn Holman several years ago, I wanted to apply that technique to masa. Since the initial washes are painted on Masa while the paper is soaking wet, doing so caused the colors to merge differently than on dry paper ... I enjoyed the difference in method and really love how masa adds a challenge as well as different look to similiar methods of painting.
The trees along the NC/VA border are more muted than this painting, but here and there, when we turn one of those many switchbacks or gaze over the valleys to the mountains, we were struck by the colors that can be seen. Oaks are turning wine red, tulip poplars, sycamore and the like are moving from yellow to gold, and the numbers of acorns we found on some of our walks predict a mighty cold, hard winter!
We visited the Horne Creek Farm Corn Shucking Festival yesterday. The gates opened at 10 am and by 10:20 am when we arrived, the parking lot was almost filled and folks were parking anywhere they could find a space. History came to life as volunteers rendered sorghum into molasses, natural plants into dyes, corn cobs into kernals. Music and dancing, food, including old Southern apples (drying, frying, being made into cider and apple butter) and sweet potato pies, brought the farmstead to life. Horse and wagon rides, pumpkins and hay bales, colorful woodlands, flowing creeks, and tons of children seemed to make the day 'fall festive.' I don't know that I have seen a small festival so extraordinarily well attended! Fun!
C revisited the 'jam' group we had met a few months ago when we came up this way for a vacation ... even then, they seemed like old friends. In the town, one of the retired teachers held a small art show for some of her students, and the community all pitched in for the reception. Each artist - hobbiest, professional - from oil to photography to acryllic to sculpture - won a trophy.
I do LOVE small town living!
I've painted a bit from the car, as well one can on winding roads, and just enjoyed the relaxing scenery and time away.
I hope the rest of your weekend is grand!
A most unpromising gray day last Sunday suddenly produced this beautiful late afternoon sky. They're not really my trees of course, but I see them every day and think about ways to photograph them.
Revere, MA
It's ages since I've done a new textured image, but Skeletal Mess published a new one this morning which inspired me to have a go .... As usual, I've doctored it a bit. You can find the original here -
www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/5474699141
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © Steve-h. All rights reserved
Soundtrack // Bande-son: DAKOTA SUITE ("Autobiography"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGcbzexf4M
"In my childhood, TREES WERE GREEN... And there were plenty to be seen... (...) When I was 5, black trees came... Nothing left was quite the same..."
Entered in TMI: Beautiful Branches, August challenge. Thank to everyone who stops by to view this image. All favs, comments, or awards are appreciated! Please do not use my work without my permission.
Journal Tip In -- My backyard trees. Though most of the leaves are on the ground, the landscape is still mighty colorful. The view is looking out from my dining room window.
tampoco sabiais que las encinas se enamoraban, eh?...
(escaneada de diapo, deja que desear... ese brillo...)
Shot using B+W 090 Infrared Filter (580nm). Shot in nature reserve Waterleidingduinen Netherlands.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
- Lord Byron -
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My cold and cough got the best of me yesterday and I spent the day resting.... these trees were all I could muster. I'm feeling a bit better, but with that restlessness that comes from being a bit under the weather.
I'm heading to work today - there's much to do. If I grow too tired, I'll head back home, but I'll rest better knowing I completed some obligations that are due.
Take care and have a great week!
I live in a northern climate, and our trees have no leaves for 5 to 6 months out of the year. So you begin to appreciate them in a whole different light when they are barren and stand-alone against the harshness of the winter cold.
Texture by Distressed Jewell
www.flickr.com/photos/jewellofdistressed/5347535120/in/se...
Over on the blog today I've been trying to decide how to choose the best between several different versions of the same photograph bit.ly/Rw7cBL and meanwhile I've also finally got round to sorting out my 500 px page over here 500px.com/shotslot Why have I done such a thing? Because so few people seem to talk on Flickr nowadays (though you folks that do it's always nice to hear from) and I'm not really meeting any new people either...I know a lot of people just facebook now, but I just don't get facebook, never have, never intend to. I'll stay around for a bit, but in 12 hours I got more nice interaction from strangers than I got here in the past 12 weeks, so I'm going to see how it all gets on!
Some lovely early light setting the tree off against some ominous black clouds.........,its all about the light.............. ;)
Thanks for looking,
Chris.