SCARY SCARECROW

Friday Feb 8 2008

I see the day is slipping by and I have not blogged yet.

While looking at Maine photos I came across this

scarecrow in Durham Maine and it became

my pick. It is interesting to note that Steven King

lived in Durham in his teen years and used to hitch

to Auburn/Lewiston area, where I lived, to see the

latest horror flick playing. If you ever drive

the road to Durham from Auburn you will feel the

darkness thicken as you pass cemeteries and dense

piney woods with their beckoning boughs.

Preserved Gift

Thursday Feb 07 2008

Here's a fun way to preserve a gift of flowers or anything you want. All natural things from your yard can be a beginning. You must have a scanner and lay the items down till you like the way they looked when viewed on your computer screen. This can happen quickly or take time. One scan may lead to another totally different design etc. Maybe I should do a class in this way to be creative with your scanner. The results are so large they must be resized to email and the clarity of the result much sharper than with the camera.

TWO FOR THE SHOW

Tuesday Feb 5 th 2008

above, the exhibit that watched

the lookers

above filming and interviews being done

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and so tommorrow will have just one last exhibit photo.

Started using a new 320 GB External hard drive

today to store my photos etc.

THREE TO PACK UP

Monday Feb 4 2008

"Light's Canvas"

Soft Focus on a Presence

Near closing time, the shadows on the walls

were exhibiting their own works

The Portraits of Stafford Art show is over and it is said that is was the most succesful show they have had. The photos I am showing were taken at the end of the show which was so expertly taken down in one tenth time it took to put it up.

Thank you !

Sunday Feb 3rd 2008

At the art exhibit yesterday I was surprised

with some very cheerful flowers from

Gail and John Kapinos-----I took photos

this am and then couldn't resist

playing around and liked this magical look.

Flowers really are welcome this

time of year when they are beneath

the fallen snow in many places---

I'm not a gardener but appreciate

them and bet some are pouring

through the seed catalogs now

---with dreams and plans for this Spring.

Beaterice Potter

Saturday Feb 2nd 2008

Here's Beartrice in a painting done by a D. Banner,

at my age---I'm thinking, you put

that hat, coat and shawl on me

there's a resemblance...

she was such a hard working woman

on her 4,000 acre farm

in the high fells country.

Hardwicke Rawnsley

Friday Feb 1 2008

I think you'll appreciate Hardwicke Rawnsley's words written for the opening of Amitte Library in 1912---he was the Vicar of Crosthwiate Church near the Lake district where Beatrice Potter first summered and then lived and worked---he also was a poet and journalist and B Potter donated much of her work to his Library---his death was life changing to her-----

I think of shells and people I admire when I read this:

As in some inland solitude a shell

Still gently whispers of its home,

the deep,

So from the world of being

beyond all sleep

Where those two happy sister spirits dwell,

This book-lined room, this simple student's cell

Shall, in the silence, pure memorial keep

Of those who sowed that others might reap

Their wisdom was from wood and lake and fell.

And as we gather up their gentle lore,

Made rich by jewels from their treasury,

The whispers grow, "Behold! these souls had power

Because with patient heart and loving eye

They learned that man and beast and flower

Were in God's purpose friends for evermore."