Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. ~Gerard de Nerval I stumbled upon this painting when I was asked to select some for future months. I was struck by the…
Browsing Tag
monthly challenge blog tour
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from…
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“Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind! Blow, that thy force I may rehearse, While all my thoughts congeal to verse!” ~ John Bancks We are certainly…
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Happy Hop Day! The Conference of the Birds elicited some very creative minds this month. We see so many different varieties of birds, so many different variations on the peacock as…
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“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.” ~ Julia Morgan, architect, best known for her work on the Hearst Castle There are buildings that just speak for…
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“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Did you know that hedgehogs did tricks? Apparently, as pets…
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“Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.” ~Grant Petersen Such a lovely inspiration this month! The colors, the motifs, the lines, the textures. There is…
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“My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.” ~H. Fred Dale I have a black…
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This month we visited the oft-illlustrated tragic character of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. {Ophelia, by Odilon Redon} Recently a BBC news story of June 7, 2011 reported that there is evidence…
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Welcome to the Art Bead Scene March Challenge Blog Tour! This month we took to the islands with French post-impressionist painter Gaugin. With spring in the air and color returning to…