February 13, 2015 at 9:43 pm (Flowers, postaday)
Tags: Fridays, Garden, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Giving thanks for gardens all over the world.
Since this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is SYMMETRY (Find a picture that is “balanced in its lines and shapes”), self took some pictures in her garden today, to see if she could find anything that fit the theme.
This is the torso of a wood and metal angel that self bought from Roger Reynolds Nursery a long, long time ago. Sadly, Roger Reynolds is no more . . .
And here is a picture self took almost a week ago, right after a big storm hit Mendocino:
Old Wooden Bridge on the Navarro Ridge Road, near Mendocino
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 9, 2015 at 4:08 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Places, postaday)
Tags: art, farmers markets, Los Angeles, Mendocino, museum, poetry, postaday, Wordpress
WordPress Daily Post Photo Challenge: SCALE
“This week, play with scale. Insert something into a scene to highlight size: your two-year-old in a field of flowers. A dime next to a huge cinnamon roll you picked up at the bakery.”
First, Mendocino houses, the sky at sunset:
Sunset, Little Lake Street, Mendocino
Flowers in the Redwood City Farmers Market:
Flower Stand, Redwood City Farmers Market (The vendor’s stall is that white tent behind the flowers)
Ahmanson Building, Los Angeles County Museum of Art:
“Smoke” by Tony Smith, in the lobby of the Ahmanson Building, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 31, 2015 at 12:08 am (Flowers, Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: Flowers, Fridays, Gardens, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is “Depth” — The prompt suggests using a picture “that suggests volume, a distance between surface and bottom.”
Here are three more takes on that theme!
The first two are from a walk self took along Little Lake Street:
Love these overlapping leaves . . .
Still the same garden . . .
This last picture is of self’s own backyard, just before Christmas . . .
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 6, 2015 at 9:32 pm (Flowers, Weather)
Tags: coffee, flower photography, Flowers, Garden, Mendocino, plans, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
It is such a bee-yoo-ti-ful day! This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is NEW.
As the prompt on The Daily Post puts it: Let’s celebrate the new!
Tomorrow self will drive up to Mendocino and inspect her new digs. She’s packed almost everything, including Sumatra coffee, a coffee bean grinder, and Krups.
Today, self walked all over her garden.
Here are the first daffodils of the year:
And here is a picture emblematic of the mind frame with which self greeted 2015!
You can see this figure busting out of a wall in Ontario Mills Shopping Center (near Claremont)
She tweeted that 2014 was her BEST YEAR EVER.
She has the feeling 2015 might be equally good.
Because, you know, she is starting it off with her residency in the Mendocino Art Center! High Fives! Plus there’s lots of artists up there who self is just dying to meet.
Followers of self’s fan fiction also know that she is up to 17 chapters, 288 hits, and 14 kudos.
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!
Although nephew Chris Blackett asked for her fan fiction pen name, IXNAY to that because, you know, fluff! Too much fluff!
Here’s another picture that’s emblematic of NEW MINDSET:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 24, 2014 at 4:50 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Flowers, Links, Personal Bookshelf, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: discoveries, Gardens, Ireland, Irish writers, memories, poetry, postaday, postaweek, summer, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Wordpress
Self is really enjoying this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge: YELLOW.
At first she thought it was rather a strange prompt. But after looking through her archives, self realizes that she must like yellow (the color) a lot, as she’s taken so many pictures with the color in them. Here are just three, beginning with the cover of a collection by the Irish poet Marcus Cumberlege. She discovered a book of his in the shelves of the main house at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and called every bookstore she could think of. Stairwell Books in Galway finally came up with one copy and mailed it to her:
Self discovered this poet when she was in Ireland, this spring.
Every summer, self’s backyard blooms with color. This bush grows with hardly any care:
Euryops (Bush Daisy), one of self’s most reliable plants
And here’s a wider view of the same bush:
Beach Daisies, the star performers every summer in self’s backyard
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 21, 2014 at 5:41 am (Flowers, postaday)
Tags: farmers markets, Flowers, memories, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Stanford, Venice Beach, Wordpress
The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge this week is YELLOW.
Participating bloggers are asked to post something focusing on the color yellow, whether it be lemons. Or flowers. Or sunlight.
Self’s 1st example of yellow is a tablecloth. The table was on the Venice Beach Pier:
Her 2nd example of yellow is a lit corridor in the History Corner of the Main Quad, Stanford University campus. Self took the picture one evening last fall when she was on her way to Annenberg to catch a Robert Frank documentary on the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street tour:
Finally: sunflowers. Self bought a bunch one day from her local farmers market:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 6, 2014 at 2:08 am (Flowers, postaday, Weather, Writing)
Tags: artists residency, flower photography, Flowers, Fridays, Gardens, Ireland, memories, postaday, postaweek, seasons, summer, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Wordpress
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
Since it’s been raining steadily for most of the week, self casts her mind back to a sunnier season: summer, when all her flowers were gloriously in bloom:
Ordered these bulbs from Dutch Gardens, Fall 2013. Summer 2014, they just kept going and going and going, for weeks and weeks.
Farmhouse Cottage # 4, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig: Where self wrote a blue streak in May 2014
Self’s Kitchen Table, Farmhouse Cottage # 4, Tyrone Guthrie Centre: The most concentrated writing self has ever done was this past spring and summer.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 31, 2014 at 7:14 pm (Flowers, postaday)
Tags: flower photography, Flowers, Gardens, happiness, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
Backyard, Summer
Backyard: Clematis “Niobe”
“Polka,” one of self’s oldest roses. It blooms only once a year, early spring.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 29, 2014 at 2:00 pm (Flowers, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: flower photography, Flowers, Gardens, photography, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
Plants blooming now in self’s garden:
Amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as “Naked Lady” for its complete absence of foliage. These usually only get going in August.
Paid $10 for this wee plum tree from Whole Foods. I didn’t expect it to bear fruit so soon.
The white lilies popped up unexpectedly a few days ago: Self forgot she even planted them.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 2, 2014 at 6:33 pm (Flowers, Links)
Tags: Flowers, Gardens, Literary Magazines, poetry, science fiction
Self loves gardens. Ergo, she loves reading about gardens.
And when she isn’t reading a gardening magazine, she’s reading literary journals.
Today self is reading a back issue of the New Orleans Review. They published a piece of hers, “Thing.” Which was science fiction. It was the start of her new experiments in genre. Thank you, New Orleans Review.
And here is a flower poem by L. S. Klatt. It’s called “The Hydrangea.”
In a hospital bed, the hydrangea
lies sedated. A gown covers it,
stem to neck, but neglect sunburned ankles
that seem to have walked a mile through dune grass.
And what a day that must have been, the head
of the flower, in a bathing cap, out
searching for wavy blue. June, the blooming
season, hothouse of panicles & Starstreaks.
Then August, rainwater dripping through a
French horn of tubes; the hydrangea
dishevels on a pillow, wilted giant.
Oh dear! The poor hydrangea! Well, hopefully the hydrangea in the poem will recover soon.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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