Self is REALLY feeling the season. Christmas is lovely. Halloween used to be her favorite holiday, but ever since the kids dwindled in her neighborhood, it is no longer fun.
Christmas is still fun, though.
Last Sunday, she bought a ticket to see the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden’s annual Festival of Lights. And there were so many things to see! Like this gorgeous snake/dragon/whatever. She went on Sunday, which was just before a massive storm arrived. Great timing, what?
Self was looking for more Black and Grey for Life in Colour’s November Challenge. Looking through her archive, she came across a set of photos she took when she was at the de Young last summer, to see the Judy Chicago exhibit.
She was with the artist Mary-Ellen Campbell, who makes gorgeous travel watercolors and collages, and discovered the Ruth Asawa pieces in the de Young’s permanent collection.
Here’s what host Travel Words says about the colours selected for the November Life in Colour challenge:
This month we will be looking for Black or Grey. Black is not a colour at all. Theoretically it is the absence of all colour. Yet black is distinctive. Lines are bolder, shadows deeper, colours brighter against a black background.
She’s posting here for Travel Words’ Life in Colour Photo Challenge. Every month, Jude at the blog Travel Words announces a new colour for the challenge. This month’s is ORANGE.
Just look at these pictures she took in London’s Hyde Park. She was walking towards the Prince Albert Memorial. Even now, remembering her first sight of the monument, she can feel that visceral thrill. It wasn’t because of the monument itself, which is your standard royal monument. It was all the leaves she had to walk through to get to her destination.
Oh, self had fun this morning, searching through her garden for any red blooms. There were a few choices, but the ones that photographed best were geraniums. In her archives, there was this sweet little mini-Cooper parked in front of Horn Barbecue in Oakland.
Self is throwing in a Calder from last spring’s Calder/Picasso at the de Young Museum.
Thanks so much to Life in Colour for hosting this challenge.
Kanlaon 