Barred

Thursday Challenge: Summer

Summer in the desert -- hot enough to make one feel like this.

Homage à Louise Nevelson

"Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind."
-- Louise Nevelson

Click here and here to learn more about her work.

Peripheral

Bindweed and rust

Vining, twining Ipomoea trichocarpa -- all over Central Texas.

The courtesy of advance notice

Still life with Croton monanthogynus

Illustration Friday: Rain

Click to see the detail, and to read if you'd like.
The song "It's Raining" was written by Naomi Neville; Irma Thomas' version is my favorite.

Texture fiesta

Self-Portrait Marathon: Take 2

Nénuphars

Nénuphars once more, because Frank H. taught me a new word!

Heart on fire for...

Cornered

Photo Friday: Health

Self-Portrait Marathon (Not!)

After seeing Laura's comment, decided she was right.
What "not"? Why not?
Besides, it does look a bit like my hair.

Thursday Challenge: Wet

Lotus dreams

Rust flowers

Self-Portrait Marathon: Take 1

Dark jest

Ghost in the machine

Crosshatched

Better larger, feel free to click for detail.

Ghost birch face

Before and after

With a shout-out to Dave in Ontario...

Photo Friday: Automotive

Fibrous

Today's pictographs

Shadowplay

Due to technical difficulties...

...we will resume our regular programming shortly.

One new powersupply?
Check.

One new battery?
Check.

One overnight charge?
Dagnabit!

One very very very impatient creative person?
Check, please!!!

The PowerBook, she is charging (we hope.)
Because I hate to disappoint, here's my placeholder post for the evening.

Laura:
While you're waiting, please see this photographer's site.

Dave:
Thanks for the empathy, and I do have some good 'uns for ya.

Trixi:
While you're waiting for me to go to Spain, sit quietly outside a little cafe, and catch just the right flirtatious wry flicker between two older folks, please see this photographer's site.

Trevor:
**snork**
Ahem. While you're waiting for something really radioactive from me, please see this artist's site.

Thanks to everyone for their chicken-soup-with-a-side-of-tequila-for-the-soul support.

Imagination

Imagine...

...a fresh photo here.

What would it be?
Do tell!

More pix to come, as soon as I get a new battery and powersupply for my PowerBook.

Meanwhile, please go look at this wonderful textile artist's work.

Met her today, and had a lovely chat.
Her work is freakin' awesome.

Closed and locked

Traveling today, but had a little time to share this.

New / Old

Click to see it bigger, brighter.

Moody Monday: Shady

Joists and beams

Sun shine

Attack 1

Storefront hibiscus

Had to sacrifice some vividness in the red to hold the texture on the petals. Wish you could have seen just how incandescent that red was.

Photo Friday: Poverty, or "Mind-Forg'd Manacles"

The deepest poverty, in my opinion?

Blake's "mind-forg'd manacles" -- when creativity, curiosity and imagination fail to break free from the tyranny of limiting, limited ideas.

Broken open

Liz, large

Walked down an alley near a train depot and saw Liz, larger than life (about 15 feet tall.)

Mexican Hat, aka Ratibida columnaris (Asteraceae)

Moody Monday: Wounded

Not before...

Kerf / Leaf

Turning angle gauge

Found this while waiting to get my car inspected.
As always, click on the image to see the details...

Photo Friday Part 2: Transportation... Drive Slow

Photo Friday: New

In an old town, on an old street, inside a worn old building...
a new air filter.

Thursday Challenge: Transportation

Honeysuckle, waiting for bees

Planet Pentimento

4 X, 1 Broken

For those who Take The Dare