NEON LANDSCAPE

Recently, in first light of dawn, my husband and I took a short excursion.  Before leaving the house, I noticed the first frost coating the dark green grass carpet.  

From the car window, I looked up  to greet old friends, Sirius and Orion.  Orion the Hunter and Canis Major, Wolf Dog companion, preparing to set in the velvet blue western sky still sprinkled with faint stars.  Around the bend and to the east, we viewed Jupiter rising, veiled in mists of early pre dawn clouds.  Ancient and modern, the myths and legends of our times...travel their celestial paths.  


* "Like a Poem Written [painted] in Landscape"

Later, after darkness had vanished, the morning sun rose shrouded in mist .  Sun brushed  leaves turned into a bit into autumn with flames and spikes of color while other trees remained totally green.  Some trees were multicolored, bits of green and gold or slashes of red and green.  As I thought of Claude Monet's impressionist paintings, like the view of the French River Seine above, I felt warm and peaceful in the chilly morning.  

Glancing around, candy pink fluffy cumulous clouds filled the horizon all around!  Recent heavy rains made mirror like reflections like so many sheets of glass and light.  Hues varied  in streaks from pale greens and blues, to soft lavenders and pinks.  Then I noticed the frost layer melting in the roadside grass and  lawns. The muted light had picked up the frost as a pale white-green, like a layer of "meringue" icing floating on the brighter green grass below.
"Not of Earth," a checkerboard of space and color shifts appears.

What?

Several days of grey followed, an impact on mood and inspiration.  All of a sudden today, the clear bright sun sparkled lifting the gray clouds and scooting them away.

"Just Like Magic"

  

Blog Search Key words:  Orion, Canis Major, Sirius, Autumn

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Resources:

* Quote from Rick Steves Europe, PBS broadcasting, segment, North Wales, feisty and poetic.

Monet's Palette, photos on Facebook celebrate Claude Monet, Impressionist Painter

Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey 21 Day Meditation Experience, Every Minute Counts new free online session begins Oct 30, 2107.  chopracentermeditation

Dr. Paul Lam, taichiforhealthinstitute  integrated exercise for all ages

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor

Images:

Headlights, photo by Rob

Orion, sketch by Dahlis

Claude Monet, view of the Seine River, painting by Impressionist Claude Monet

Chasing Shadows, Rob and Dahlis, ink sketch by Dahlis

LIGHTEN UP

Flowers in the Rain

Clouds and Rain

"It's a 'going within' clouds day."

"What's that?"

"It's a rain day!  I remember when we were kids and we'd have a rain out of activities and the like.  We'd stay inside and have fun with music or paints or cooking," Rob added.  

"It's so green out, it looks like Ireland."

Cats are already dormant. 

The rain came in sheets of greyness, in sprinkles, in drum rolls of thunder, and sparks of lightening.  Strings of clouds, lighten up a for a bit of clearing then start the show all over again.  A play list of weather patterns lingers along for a day and a half of down time and reflection.

*  "Like a blue string tied to infinity intent is part of your recipe for creative awakening.  Pick up a pencil, ink, crayons, or paints and free associate your own journey dance with word-colors and light-speed."

Years ago I received a journal with a Blue Butterfly on the cover.  What will I write or draw in it?  My pristine journal is still blank!

** "Oh, what do I know of the dragon, it comes on wind and clouds?"

Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu

* The Blank Page, waiting to be filled~

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* The Blank Page

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Resources:

** Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu

Tai Chi Exercise 

Dr. Paul Lam, Tai Chi for Health Institute

Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming, YMAA

Jou, Tsung Hwa, books, the Dao of Taijiquan, the Dao of Meditation

Music

Deuter, Wind and Mountain

Meditation

Deepak Chopra, chopracentermeditation

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor

Photos:

Flowers in the Rain, Chessie Studies Flowers, photo by Paul

Clouds and Rain, photo by Rob

Inspiration, photo by Dahlis

STONE AND GLASS

Rock Solid

Liquid Color

The Sturdy and the Ephemeral, one can support the other, or can it?

*  "Like emptiness and harmony...."

Early Autumn and there is a hot humid atmosphere yet a faint chill, breezes blowing gently now will soon have a bite.  Green is the color of the moment.  Cats are suspicious, they know change is in the air.

"All is Process"
One step builds another, a diagram or sketch takes shape and gradually becomes a project in action.  

"Yesterday", when I was little, I had a wagon full of rocks and pebbles, I roamed in the yard  and the wagon went with me.  Today I spliced together words in a fun and random poetic fashion.


String of Pearls Poems:

STONE

A wagon full of memories

White/Black/Smokey

Crystalline 

Grainy/Banded 

Sediment/Sentiment

GLASS

Transparent

Translucent

Invisible

Mirror Image


*** "That's the great joy, creating something that wasn't there before," Tom Petty, musician

Chaos becomes Order: Rock Solid Project, tiny boxwood, original sandstone brick and mortar, river rocks with flagstone trim

In my imagination:

** I see Mt-St-Michel and St. Aubert's Abbey in Normandy

I see Chartres Cathedral in France, sculptures etched in stone with curtains of lace-like stained glass: "The Legendary Windows."

* "I see angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity...."  

Golden Angel Statue atop St. Aubert's Abbey, Normandy 

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Resources

Music

* Paul Simon live concert, old favorites and new music including Sounds of Silence, Austin City Limits PBS TV, (2016). "Like emptiness and harmony" quote from song Homeward Bound and "Angels in the architecture..." quote from song Call Me Al.

Songs of the Day:  American Tune, Simon and Garfunkel, The Concert in Central Park and

Sounds of Silence, done very slowly here. Edgy yet relaxing music for writing.

*** Quote from Tom Petty, musician 1950-2017, from Charlie Rose Interview April 19, 1999. Charlie Rose, PBS and BTV

Book:  Mt-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams, take a pilgrimage into time, "The Legendary Windows"

TV: My Little Pony cartoons, episodes Maud Pie and Rock Solid Friendship, DFCH Discovery Family Channel and other sources.  Maud Pie studies rocks and writes poems, "There're all about rocks, I have thousands of them."

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor

Photos by Dahlis:

Rock Solid project begins

Stained Glass Candle Holder Glows in the Sunlight

River Rocks

Completed Project:  includes three tiny boxwoods in natural surroundings

Oil Painting by Dahlis: Sky Sea and Stone (detail)

St. Aubert's Abbey, 807 AD, appeared in a meditation and later gradually painted itself.  St. Aubert received three visions from St. Michael the Archangel to build Mt-Saint-Michel, fortress on the top peaks of this island off the Normandy Coast.