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Category Archives: Photography
Today’s Portrait: FIREFIGHTER
No, today’s portrait isn’t a flower! It’s occurred to me that other objects besides flowers can emanate presence and personality. Can demonstrate QUIDDITAS, the quality that Aristotle meant when he wrote of “thatness,” or “whatness,” or “what it is.” When I was painting … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography, Wonderings
Tagged Aristotle, Greek, Painting, Philosophy, Photography, Portraits, Still lifes
23 Comments
TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HIBISCUS, BABY!
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
Posted in Color, Flowers, Memory, Music, Photography
Tagged Carmen Miranda, Entertainers, Memories, Movies, Musicals, World War II
35 Comments
TODAY’S PORTRAIT: YOU CAN CALL HER PEONY
Two young things were the subjects of the first two flower portraits. So it’s exciting to turn to a more assured, mature beauty for our third. She is known formally as Paeonia Suffruticosa, but Peony is the name we are likely to … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Japan, Photography
Tagged Art, Asia, Beauty, China, Gardens, Gilded Age Mansions, Peonies
18 Comments
TODAY’S PORTRAIT: COLUMBINE
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
TODAY’S PORTRAIT: Mlle. POPPY
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
Posted in Color, Flowers, Photography
Tagged Georgia O'Keeffe, Poppies, Portraits, Summer
36 Comments
“To Touch the Heart” —
(Note: It’s probably best to look at this post AFTER you’ve eaten a meal!!!!) It’s been said for ages that the way to a man’s heart— or a woman’s, for that matter — is through the stomach. In that spirit, … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Happiness, Photography
Tagged China, Chinese cuisine, Cooking, Dim Sum, Dumplings, Food, Friendship
29 Comments
Spring in the Heart
Coming along the mountain path Somehow it tugs my heart Wild violet (trans. Lesley Downer) The mercury slunk down to – 12 Fahrenheit last night. Or thereabouts. At such low temperatures, what difference does it make? All is white, white, … Continue reading
Jen Earns an A — in Artichokes!
Jen, of the delightful Random Acts of Writing, blogs close enough to where I live to visit once in a while. After a recent post about artichokes, she commented that she’d tried not long ago to cook and eat an … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Food, Friendship, Photography
Tagged Artichokes, Blogging, Education, Food, Friendship
32 Comments
HOW SWEET IT IS: The Gift of the Maples
Here in New England (and all the way north into Canada), the deciduous sugar maple (Acer Saccharum) is leafless and barren in February, a dead sign of a dead land. Or would be — except that with the slightest daytime warming, sap … Continue reading
Posted in Etcetera, Food, Nature, Personal Essay, Photography, Pioneer Valley, Spring
Tagged Breakfast, Local Farming, Maple Syrup, Nature, New England, Photography, Sugaring
22 Comments
IN THE “GREENHOUSE”
Only the “greenhouses” aren’t green — they’re white! Backing up a little, the two elite women’s colleges in the Pioneer Valley, Smith and Mount Holyoke, both do their bit to cheer up Valley residents in March with Spring Bulb Shows. Smith’s … Continue reading
Posted in Color, Etcetera, Flowers, Nature, Photography, Pioneer Valley, Spring
Tagged Architecture, Flower Shows, Greenhouses, White
26 Comments
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