Good Morning, Dare I Say Spring
Perhaps not so much today, with highs in the lower 50s, but most of the rest of the week will be in the 70s.
Art Nouveau Cactus
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”― Thomas Huxley Art Nouveau was…
Embracing Reality (Or Not)
There’s the version of yourself that you hold, and then there’s the version others see. Yesterday, I removed the gutter screens above our front door, which had been causing runoff problems during heavy rains. I set my heavy-duty 10-foot fiberglass step ladder firmly on the front sidewalk, climbed up to assess which tools I needed,…
Beneath the Snow
The weather has been unusually cold here for the past two weeks, but it is warming now, with only a few small patches of our previous large snowfall remaining in shaded areas. After the snow melted near my fern hillside in the backyard, we were pleasantly surprised to see hints of red and white. I’m…
Finding Art In AI?
From what I gather in my reading, photography, much like AI graphics today, was once not considered an art form. When photography first emerged, people struggled to accept that a mechanical device could ever create art. They believed art required skill, time, and most of all, the direct human touch. Since photography could depict the…
Heart And Mind
While visiting the Benson Sculpture Garden in Loveland, CO, last September, I was taken with the sculpture, “Freedom of Youth” by Rosie Sandifer. While I saw and appreciated the sculpture’s joyful depiction of a child at play, it also communicated something more to me. I thought I saw a seriousness in the child’s face and…
