Finally, at last.
Snow is beautiful. It’s most beautiful when you have magically been deposited into the cabin with all your stuff, so you can look at and appreciate the stillness and beauty. It’s not so fun when you have to trudge through the snow, knee-deep, ferrying stuff up the stairs because you can’t get your 4-wheel drive car through the sort-of plowed road.
Bliss
I remember that Creative Every Day Month’s thene for June is Bliss. This is bliss – the forest in summer. That is why I am ecstatic that summer has come to the mountains. The best part is sitting on the balcony watching the blue jays, who ask for peanuts incessantly and I of course provide them. Once in a while I spot woodpeckers and yesterday saw a white-headed woodpecker for the second time up here. The hummingbirds come to the feeder after trying to drink from our Chinese lanterns, and the nuthatches go up and down the trees looking for insects.
I was so excited I did an art journal collage page called Finally. At last. (click to make larger)
A walk in the woods
Went for a walk to see what was new out there. Not much was new, so I had to do something to make the photos interesting. I took out the color.
In the next photo, the electric and phone lines are crossed. I used to think how ugly that was and why couldn’t it all be put underground. Probably I thought that out of ignorance and because my parents were always so critical of anything not esthetically pleasing. But now that we have a place in the mountains, the lines mean electricity, phones, internet, television. Plus, I realize the difficulties of doing things up here. Wires here are good. I like them.
I found an interesting tree- loved the shape. What I didn’t expect was the background – it looks a little like snow in summer.
I passed a stump. Then I went back and took three photos. It’s a good example of point of view – everything depends upon your point of view. The first looks like a stump, an obstacle to pass.
A few steps further, and a new perspective, it becomes a passage, a way through.
And yet a couple more steps, the same stump becomes a shelter.
The perspective of the passage narrows and you can just imagine taking refuge here. If you were small. I used to use examples like this when I was teaching point of view – I miss that part. The teaching and the kids. Don’t miss anything else about it.
Finally, I passed a little house that had so many patterns on it and a colorful barrel in front. So of course, I took a picture.
When I got back to the cabin, I found Tiger and Lily doing what they do best. (I brought the cats with me this time.)
Yep. Sleeping in the sun. For the cats, a blissful activity.
And – since the theme of Creative Every Day month is Bliss, I think you could call these photos bliss. In fact, just the whole adventure of being here. Bliss.
