March 30, 2017 - SkyWatch Friday - Artegon Marketplace - Quote - e.e. cummings - Risk

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©Artegon Marketplace, Orlando, Florida

Quote:

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
~ e. e. cummings

March 29, 2017 - Outdoor Wednesday - #429 - Vattman Park, Rocks and Boulders, Heavy traffic and sunset

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Snow in March?  Vattman Park, Wilmette, IL

Down at Lake Michigan on a sunny 82 degree day.  Noticed three rocks on top of this huge boulder. I can't believe how calm the lake can be on some days.

Heavy traffic and sunset on an errand to drop off taxes.

Quote:

""We have seen that central among the traits that define a creative person are two somewhat opposed tendencies: a great deal of curiosity and openness on one hand and almost obsessive perseverance on the other.  Both of these have to be present for a person to have fresh ideas and prevail."
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

March 27, 2017 - Thinking Outside the Box - Car Window - Quote - Saul Bellow - Stillness

Image taken from inside my SUV of what was outside the car window.

Quote:

"Art is the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos."
~ Saul Bellow

March 23, 2017 - SkyWatch Friday - Light House Beach - Quote - Pablo Picasso - Emotions

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Both photographs were taken this week at Light House Beach, Evanston, Illinois.

Quote:

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
~ Pablo Picasso

March 21, 2017 - Outdoor Wednesday #428 - Icicles - Quote - Haruki Murakami - Past

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I could hear Lake Michigan, as I placed one foot and then the other foot into the sand and walked.  Walked to where I have shot images many times before.  Always excited.  I love being outside.  My passion is taking photographs.  I remember when I bought my first camera it was a Brownie Hawkeye. Sorry, got off the subject a wee bit.  This time I had a reason to be here at this spot.  I knew that ice had formed during the winter months even though we didn't experience snow in January or February which is unusual here in Illinois especially at the lakefront.  I sighed with relief when I saw the icicles.  I was blessed to be there at sunset because the sun was reflecting on the icicles.

Quote:
"ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away.  As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct.  Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way-cleanly, clearly.  That's the essence of ice, the role it plays."
~ Haruki Murakami, BLIND WILLOW, Sleeping Woman

March 20, 2017 - Thinking Outside the Box - Snow Fences - Quote - Albert Einstein - Imagination/Knowledge

Snow Fences at Lake Michigan, Evanston, IL

I really haven't been down to the beach this winter which is unusual for me.  I love looking for pebbles, seashells, feathers and just being down by the lake to hear the sound and breath the fresh air and see the birds and feel alive.  And so I always avoid taking pictures of snow fences thinking well, how can I do that image differently?  My intention for the year of 2017 is YES I CAN.  Challenged by how this photo really looked I used Picassa (photoshop) and came up with this study of lines, texture and oh my goodness feeling. What is your impression?

Quote:

"I'm enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination, which I think is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge is limited.  Imagination encircles the world."
~ Albert Einstein

March 17, 2017 - SkyWatch Friday - Sky and Trees - Quote - Lady Bird Johnson - Art

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Quote:

"Art is the window to man's soul.
Without it, he would never be able to see
beyond his immediate world;
nor could the world see the man within."
~ Lady Bird Johnson

March 16, 2017 - Outdoor Wednesday - #427 - Lock and Chain - Quote - Warren Buffett - Habits

Creative Twist 

Palm trees reflected on blue surface of a storage building with lock and chains.  Notice natural lines and man made lines; natural curves and man made curves...all  this is interesting to me.  This all adds up to stepping out of a habit of looking for what is being seen to what isn't being seen.  So often, I pass by details, buildings, things not seeing but saying to my husband, "I didn't see that."


Quote:
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt
until they are too heavy to be broken."
~ Warren Buffett

March 10, 2017 - SkyWatch Friday - Greenhouse - Quote - Marcus Tullius Cicero - Everything

©Greenhouse, Elizabeth Park, 1561 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT
For more information:. http://elizabethparkct.org/visit.html

Quote:
"If you have a garden and a library
you have everything you need."
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

March 8, 2017 - Outdoor Wednesday - #426 - Abandoned Store Window

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Abandoned Store Window #WP20100114051B

Drove down Highway 27 towards the town of Winter, Wisconsin to combine a photo shoot with thrift store shopping except I discovered that the store went out of business. I took out my big boy camera and starting looking around and found this wonderful window with reflections of lines, circles, and nails.  Untold stories being held hostage until some new owner comes with plans A, B, and C.  Unless the whole building is ripped down.

March 7, 2017 - Thinking Outside the Box - Condensation - Quote - Ryunosuke Satoro - One Drop

Condensation(#WP20170220001B)on a water pitcher.

Quote:

"Individually we are one drop.
Together we are an ocean."
~ Ryunosuke Satoro

March 3, 2017 - SkyWatch Friday - Sky - Quote - Kelly Miller - Straight Lines

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Sky WP#20170221001B


Quote:

"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
~ Kelly Miller - Author

March 1, 2017 - Outdoor Wednesday - #425 - Vattman Park - Trees

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Trees:WP20161107013B

Trees:WP20161107015B

Took these photographs at Vattman Park, Wilmette, IL.