BeckyB: lines&squares
During a summer visit to Vermont, a wooden cart holding a variety of flowering plants caught my eye.
Colors faded to a new look.
Weathered surfaces showing their age.
As we all do.
Category: Squares Challenges
Paths of color round the bend
designed by Sol LeWitt
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
BeckyB: lines&squares
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, Curves and Arches
Tree lines
Stair lines at sea
Exploration…
Discovery…
A day at sea on an anniversary cruise.
BeckyB: #lines&squares
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rectangles & Squares
All lined up
Scents mysterious
line the sill.
Oils of lemongrass,
cypress…
poised to heal.
Tools of the trade
made manifest
by her magic touch.
Miracles begin here.
BeckyB: #lines&squares
All alone
Amber waves…
October is here and along with it, a new squares challenge from Becky B: #lines&squares
For those interested, here are the guidelines…
The theme is #lines&squares, and your lines can be long, short, straight or curvy. They can also be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, perpendicular or even zig zag. There again perhaps you might prefer them intersecting, natural, singular or in stripes. As you may have gathered there are no line rules, as whatever your line everyone is welcome in square photographs!
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I am still experimenting with my new camera…macro, end-of-day light and whatever catches my eye. Thanks to the wonders of digital photography I feel free to capture as many images as I can. Even when the breeze just won’t stop…
Peace Blues
This post inspired by Becky’s Blue July Squares
Back in “The Day” – my teenage years – I covered my bedroom wall with posters. Of all shapes and sizes. Random subject matter. Raggedy Ann & Andy. Laurel & Hardy. Don Quixote plodding along under an orange moon. Psychedelic quotes. “LifeIsAGas” swirled in green and pink was one. “WarIsNotHealthyForChildren…” was another.
However, one poster was just a simple black square…with a green peace sign filling the space. No text.
A small symbol of protest.
Along with peace necklaces. Buttons. Pins. Rings. Denim patches. To end the war we saw raging on the evening news. A war which continued until I was in college…and heard shouts down the hall of my dormitory one night…The War Is Over!! The War Is Over!!
In our youth and naïveté, perhaps my friends and I somehow believed these small symbols made a difference.
Several years ago, I noticed this pin for sale at a local novelty store. The kind of place that sells off color bumper stickers, fart joke books and notepads with the F word in their titles.
It gave me pause.
Way past time to start my collection again.
2017
Low Tide Blues
Inspired by Becky’s Blue July Squares
One cold November afternoon…
Low tide rocks appeared…
Warmed in the sun…
Under the sky…
…with its many shades of blue.
Tree of Blue
Inspired by Becky’s Blue July Squares
This blue tree is part of an art installation at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH (USA).
“The Blue Trees is an environmental community art installation by Konstantin Dimopoulos in which trees have been temporarily transformed with environmentally safe blue pigment to stimulate awareness and discussion of global deforestation, while engaging the community in art activity and dialogue.”
A fascinating sight to see at the entrance to this popular museum. Definitely an important (!) conversation starter.
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