September 25, 2018 at 10:55 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Places)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, exhibits, Gardens, Golden Gate Park, museums, nostalgia, Redwood City, San Francisco, The Philippines
Love Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge!
This week’s challenge is PASTEL COLORS.
It turned out to be surprisingly hard to find photos with predominantly pastel colors!
These flesh-coloured gourd plants were at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers:
The Magritte exhibit at SFMOMA on self’s birthday in July:
A bit of nostalgia:
Map of the Philippines, Son’s Room in Redwood City, California
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 4, 2018 at 5:59 pm (Links)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Gardens, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Self loves color prompts. And in particular, this week’s Cee Neuner Fun Foto Challenge color: LIME.
There is something so refreshing about LIME or LIGHT GREEN.
Here are three pictures where this color takes pride of place:
Living Wall, San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
July 2, 2018 at 8:56 pm (Books, destinations, Filipino Writers, Places, Recommended, short story collections, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Gardens, inspiration, John Steinbeck, Mayor of the Roses, Mendocino, Mondays, reading lists, short story, travel books
Steinbeck has very interesting things to say about Deer Isle.
Digression: Self always wanted to visit Maine, because there is a teacher there — in Bates College — who has taught her story “Lenox Hill, December 1991” in self’s collection Mayor of the Roses, for decades.
pp. 41 – 42:
It sounds a little like California’s northern coast. Self always begins writing fables when she’s in Mendocino. Must be the craggy cliffs, the deep forests, the crashing ocean. During her latest trip to Mendocino, early this year, this sentence occurred to her as she was driving through redwoods: They chased daylight into a gloomy forest.
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, April 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 26, 2018 at 12:59 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Links, postaday, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: artists residency, complaints, fantasy, Gardens, His Dark Materials, Mendocino, Philip Pullman, reading lists
Self almost forgot it was Wednesday! She was so busy tweeting and reading The Amber Spyglass and being confused by life, such as why her library copy of the book was missing 37 pages. She’d never have noticed if it weren’t for the kind child who inserted an index card warning the reader that 38 pages were missing. Since the book itself doesn’t seem to have been mangled, this seems to be entirely the fault of the publisher: RANDOM HOUSE. Anyhoo, she might have realized eventually, since p. 206 is a page with Mrs. Coulter, and on p. 239 Mrs. Coulter is not in evidence. But, hard to say.
Now to LINES.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
Oh how fabulous! Self loves making her photographs into some kind of abstract representation of something totally different. That’s easy to do if you look at everything in terms of lines. Such, as her unit in the Mendocino Art Center, which is pretty empty so you can clearly see the rectangular repetitions of shelves, desk, doorway, etc.
Unit # 12, Mendocino Art Center, April 2018
And then, the lines the blinds make across the page she is reading:
Reading THE SUBTLE KNIFE, Book II of Philip Pullman’s HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy
And, finally, the lines of this aloe vera plant she saw (it was gigantic) in the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens:
Aloe Plant, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, 21 April 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 22, 2018 at 2:19 am (destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Earth Day, environment, Fort Bragg, Gardens, Mendocino, photography, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress
Self dropped by the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens and was reminded of the healing properties of the color green. She was there mere minutes after it opened. No one was around except for a man carrying a wooden easel. Later, she passed him on the path. He was just setting up.
By the way, the camera she uses is a Nikon Coolpix, about four years old. Got it at Costco. Good price.
Other Takes on PROLIFIC:
HAPPY EARTH DAY, ALL!
April 18, 2018 at 4:50 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, artists residency, blogs, exhibits, Gardens, inspiration, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress, work-in-progress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is PROLIFIC.
Self will interpret that to mean MANY.
Mary-Ellen Campbell’s home in Casper, California is bursting with collages, paintings, books — all of her own making.
She made this collage after one of her travels:
Art by Mary-Ellen Campbell of Casper, California
Here’s a shot of Mary-Ellen’s work table, where she’s assembling the pieces for a new collage:
Work-In-Progress, Mary-Ellen Campbell
The current exhibit at the Mendocino Art Gallery features work by current artists-in-residence. If you put your nose close to one of these dispensers, the smell of each spice is heavenly.
Ceramic Spice Dispensers by Layne Rotman (On Exhibit This Month at the Mendocino Art Center Gallery)
Other PROLIFIC:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
April 12, 2018 at 2:44 am (Flowers, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: Gardens, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, seasons, Wordpress
It rained most of the afternoon. Towards 5 p.m., self took a big umbrella and her camera and walked around the Mendocino Art Center, taking pictures in the front garden. Colors are so vibrant in the rain! It was tough juggling the umbrella and the camera, but she managed to get a few decent shots.
Other Awakenings:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
March 6, 2018 at 10:51 pm (Links, Places, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Gardens, memories, Paris
Love Cee’s Fun Foto Challenges!
Paris, May 2017: The Tuileries
Same day in May 2017, somewhere near L’Orangerie:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 4, 2018 at 5:51 pm (destinations, Flowers, Places, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: California, flower photography, Flowers, Gardens, happiness, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
Which is to say, the garden at home.
Self has spent much time in it, the past few days. Here are pictures of two of her ‘most-grown.’
Superbowl Sunday 2018: Her First at Home in Three Years
Side Yard: This Viburnum was barely two feet high in 2015. Now, it’s almost as tall as the eaves.
Going to see Hostiles (Christian Bale! Rosamund Pike!) in a few.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 6, 2018 at 6:45 am (Family, Links, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Gardens, Manila, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, The Philippines, Wordpress
In this first week of the year, many people anticipate beginnings, changes, and opportunities for growth. Share with us an image that evokes this spirit of change and newness — the smile of a new friend, a freshly planted garden, an empty journal waiting to be filled.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
Self is in Manila for the first time in a number of years, and what she loves most about it is the fact that even in the smallest pocket gardens, the plant life is so fecund. Below, three examples:
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