WINTER GLOW

Standing on the cusp of winter 2020, I thought back a year....back to a brilliant gold sunset sifting through spider webs of leafless trees, a living moment.  Patches of crystal ice droplets touched and glittered on the branches.  Mounds of far away snow appeared in the near distance.  

Quickly I grabbed small canvas for an instant pocket painting~ 6" by 6."  Pocket paintings are fun and portable, a take-with event.  The small stretched canvas on wooden stretcher bars meant instant hanging on a wall, a frameless frame. Three simple pure colors and a small chisel brush.  A moment captured in time.  I can even remember the diamond dust of air born crystal ice flakes drifting about in the frigid still air outside.  

In moments the light shifted and faded....gratitude for viewing the scene.  Happy to have chased and captured a memory.

How have I changed?  Or Have I? 

"Nothing Gold Can Stay," Emily Dickenson

"There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods," Byron

"Friendship is a Sheltering Tree," Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Time it was oh what a time it was....long ago I held a photograph, preserve your memories...." Simon and Garfunkel

Bogger Search Key Words:  Nature, Trees, Creativity, Poetry

Resources:

Pinkalicious, PBS kids cartoon, episode, The Painting Pixie, small paintings hidden in unexpected places, a Pixie grows her wings.

Music: 

The Memory of Trees, Enya 

Bookends album, Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends Theme

Dahlis Roy: Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner 

Image:  oil painting by Dahlis

Winter Glow, small pocket painting

AUTUMN LIGHT

*  "Everything the light touches....."

Have you ever watched the sunlight shift over your favorite paintings?  The strong vibrant full sun, the soft glows, the backlighting, the subtle colors and shades, wonders yet discovered and every day is "new" because of the ever shifting light.

With weather and colors lighting up in turn, seasonal paintings parade in our living room.  Each painting choice different, each fun and enjoyable.  Paintings emit unique energy all their own!  

Clouds and Water, reflections and refractions, trees shimmer and glow, soft detail.  Here the random brush strokes play and frolic, blending, at a distance into a more unified "wholeness" of the scene.  

Experimenting with French Impressionism technique is enjoyable and, depending on the lighting, you never know just what colors and shadows may appear.  Every Moment Different

Shadow Shift

Looking at the Abbey, I feel the blues "lighting up."  Until I saw the subtle light effects, I had forgotten just how many blue touches had entered the rocky sculptured look of brushstrokes and textures, of sky and sea.

Now I am spending more time with nature this year, observing clouds, plants, trees and light first hand, I feel more connected, more relaxed.  Daily "nature breaks" reset my mental computer and help body strength as well.  Feeling the breeze and touching leaves brings the heart mind into a unity of peace and reflection.

** "Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."  Karle Wilson Baker

*** "A million oak leaves await within one forest."  David B. Axelrod.

Blogger Search Key Words: Autumn, Impressionist Painting, Architecture

Related Posts:

A Firm Foundation

Angels in the Architecture

A Different Light, Painting Mont-Saint Michel, The Artist Meets the Archangel

Resources:

* Quote from The Lion King (1994) Walt Disney Productions, Mufasa talks to his cub Simba.

** Quote from Karle Wilson Baker from a message on a teabag, Traditional Medicinal Organic teas.

*** Quote from Another Way, poems derived from the Tao Te Ching, one of many books written by David B. Alexrod, founder of CHI, Creative Happiness Institute

Music: 

The Memory of Trees, album by Enya

Aspenglow  song by John Denver

Dahlis Roy, Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis

Backyard in Autumn, sunlight flickers over oil painting

Impressionist Sketch, oil painting

Abbey Church in Normandy, (708 AD) below Mont-Saint-Michel, oil painting.

"The Archangel Loved Heights" from the book Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1909)

ONE MOMENT

 * "This moment is unlike any other moment.

Don't even say how it is similar."

** Color Wheel

Blogger Search Key Words:  Poetry, Color, Creativity

Resources:

* Quote from Another Way, Poems derived from the Tao Te Ching, p. 9, by David B. Axelrod, founder and director of CHI, Creative Happiness Institute. www.creative happiness.org  

** Color Wheel, Painting by Zoe, printed with permission

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

Image: Painting by Zoe

** Color Wheel, 

STOPWATCH AND LISTEN

 

Breezing through a stream of pictures lately I heard the words, or what I thought were the spoken words, "Stopwatch and listen...."  I saw an image of a stopwatch in my imagination.  A trainer timed a sprinting horse on a practice track:  flashback The Black Stallion (movie).

Only later, I recalled OH, what was said/meant was three separate words: "Stop, Watch, and Listen...."  

* "....You're talking to me, I can't hear what you said..." Lyrics from Time After Time by Cindi Lauper

Words, for me, are the last form of communication I pick up. It's pictures first~

 Then I took a music break and tuned in to Cindi Lauper singing her song Time After Time and playing the dulcimer.  Backed by violin, piano, and guitar accompaniment, softly they played, and not all performing at the same "time," relaxation is "hear."  A total experience, a showcase of sounds, yet not competing with each other.  As the song unraveled, I read the closed captions!  I seldom hear words or lyrics to songs, rather concentrating on melody lines and frequencies of the vocals and instruments.  Was I surprised?  

Lyrics spoke directly to "Me!"  I sat up straight.

*....Caught up in circles, confusion is nothing new...."

* "Suitcase of memories, Time After Time...."

* "Sometimes you picture me, I'm walking' too far ahead....You say 'go slow,' but I fall behind.  And the second hand unwinds." 

 I get it!

"If you're lost, you can look, and you will find me, Time After Time...."

"....Watching through windows, you're wondering if I'm OK...."

"....Secrets stolen from deep inside, and the drum beats out of time...."

".....I got a suitcase of memories, I almost left behind...."

"TIME AFTER TIME"

It is interesting, in a shift of time and experiences, you can feel the meanings of songs changing and melding into outreaching vistas you never even imagined.  

** It's Only Time, Enya

*** "Are not flowers the stars of the Earth?" Clara Lucas Balfour

STOP AND GROW

Key Word Blogger Search: "Time"

Related Posts: The Painted Word

 Resources:

Music:

*Cindi Lauper, singer songwriter, sings Time After Time, PBS Salute to Grammys, Oct 2020, Cindi's song salutes Ken Ehrlich, receiving the Trustees' Award for producing Grammy, Emmy, and a few White House concerts, and for documentaries of The Beatles, Elton John, Prince and others.  Various artists also perform music.  Behind the scenes awards are given for technology in music, and areas of soundstage producing. Other Songs by Cindi include True Colors and (who could forget) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

** Enya, singer songwriter, relaxing and edgy Enya presents The Celts, Watermark, The Memory of Trees, the Only Time Collection and The Very Best of Enya.

Song Farmer, Michael Johnathan, painter, songwriter and author, Woodsongs, Old Time Radio Hour also on PBS. RFD TV, and Facebook 

Film:

The Black Stallion and the Black Stallion Returns, a horse and his boy

Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) looks at "time."**

*** Flower quote by Clara Lucas Balfour, message on a tea bag from Traditional Medicinal Organic Teas.

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

Images by Dahlis

Time Clocks

Hand Crochet Circle Design

Total Eclipse of the Clock, "and the second hand unwinds..."

Windows and Lace

White Violets, memory of spring

CHANGE OF FOCUS

* Poem Contributed by Isabel Jackson

Change of Focus

Full moon on the cusp of September

rises behind cloud wisps.

All day the feathers of mackerel sky

(never long wet, never long dry)

dominate the cloud scape.

Late summer, the fireflies have gone

but crickets with their rhythmic chirping

make up the evening soundscape

as night comes on sooner and sooner.

Summer clothes, passe, at least on some days

as we log hot-weather memories away,

a little sad that summer is soon past

We shift our focus to soon-coming autumn.

What is your change of focus as the seasons meld together?

Yesterday we gazed up to see the patchy orange and green trees.  Around noon the half moon was still out in daytime!  We stared in wonder as the sun, now to the south, made a bright white glow on the moon's left side.  On the right side of the half moon, a "blue" horizontal line emerged veiled in very thin clouds~ 

Blogger Search: poetry, creativity, writing

Related Posts: Poems by Isabel Jackson, published with permission

Resources:

Cat's Purr Music, CD and other formats:  Chet Day's Cat, provides binaural beats and calming purring with musical background and nature sounds.

Total Meditation: Deepak Chopra's 91st book!  choprameditation

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

Images:

Looking Glass, photo by Dahlis

Pink Event, photo by Judy J., photo printed with permission

Night Lights, photo by Rob, photo printed with permission

Early Autumn, photo by Dahlis