Category Archives: Color

Winter Closet

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Thanksgiving arrived along with the first winter storm of the season here in the Northeast United States. Biting cold, snow, wind — please, Mother Nature, I’m not ready yet! The older I get, the less ready I am for the … Continue reading →

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After the Deluge

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Touch2Touch

October being what it is, autumn in New England, we have mild days and cold, gold and gray. We also have not infrequent deluges, and yesterday was one of those. The rain approached Biblical proportions. Worcester, not so far from us, … Continue reading →

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King Midas in Northampton

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Touch2Touch

One day the big twin-trunked tree in the back yard was covered with bright green leaves. Then the very next day when I awoke, or so it it seemed, King Midas had come by in the night and touched it, … Continue reading →

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A New Strain: “Last Gasp” Morning Glories!

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Touch2Touch

When my gardening neighbor planted the vines on the other side of the trellis shared by our patios, I was delighted. The quickly climbing green leaves made no distinction between thine and mine. They clambered through the lattice to my side as … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HIBISCUS, BABY!

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Touch2Touch

And now for something COMPLETELY different — La Hibiscus! Talk about in-your-face!  No shrinking violet she. Her philosophy is, If you’ve got it, flaunt it! A hot-blooded lady from the tropics, our hibiscus is right out there. In her gorgeous color, … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: COLUMBINE

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Here she is, in all her coltish, awkward, long-legged innocence and beauty, young Aquilegia Chrysanthra, better known to us as COLUMBINE: What she calls to mind for me are those enchanting creatures found in the title of Marcel Proust’s second volume, A … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S PORTRAIT: Mlle. POPPY

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Touch2Touch

Summertime, the season of flowers! So why not portraits of flowers? For me, flowers have personalities, individuality, presence. And when it comes to taking photographs, they have as much or more of those qualities as humans. They have other good qualities as well … Continue reading →

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“One Misty Moisty Morning —

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Touch2Touch

when cloudy was the weather —“   That refrain ran through my head when I opened the front door this morning and saw the mist lying thick about our lane. “One misty moisty morning, de dum de dum de dum” I thought, … Continue reading →

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There are Two Kinds of People?

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Touch2Touch

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to … Continue reading →

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Another DON’T: Don’t Leap to Conclusions!

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Touch2Touch

In a previous post, Unlocking the Gate of Dreams, I showcased a striking painting at the Yale University Art Gallery that was titled — UNTITLED: And this is what I said about it:  Another painting, by a painter of whom I’d … Continue reading →

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