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Crocus in March |
Suicide Prevention 1-800-273-8255 or 988
Pray for Peace
Hello Spring
Day 76 of Week 11 March 2024
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Bachelor Button Sprouts* |
Internet wise, if you pause your blog, then your rating on searches and such decreases. Posting a photograph with comments turned off is a way of not losing your blog's Internet ranking. I'm not sure how or what search engine rules are concerning ranking though.
Giving Pause
Walking into the future carries all our baggage, some light, some heavy, some a burden, some a joy. All of you have been a joy to get to know through blogging, comments and emails. Y'all are a wonderful group of folks. My appreciation of y'all goes deep.
Figuring out how to balance my life's load, I will be pausing this blog indefinitely. I will continue to read your posts, and comment now and then.
Thank you
Reflection Monday March 2024
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Wood Sorrel |
A Morning's Internet Browsing
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Homemade Coffee Frappe |
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Raspberries on a Cabbage Leaf C.P.Ream |
On the theme of interesting names, I find an American female multiracial sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, 1844~1907. Her first name has a beautiful musical vibe.
The marble sculpture in the photo posted below is part of a series she did from H.W.Longfellow's poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," 1855. The young woman at the feet of the arrow maker is Minnehaha. There is also a Lewis' marble bust of Minnehaha.
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The Old Arrow Maker Marble 1872 |
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The Violoncellist 1907 by Lilla Cabot Perry |
When Less Is More
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Upstate New York in the Fall |
The above color sketch is from a photograph as well as a memory of either Eagle or Paradox Lake, Upstate New York. I was on a foliage tour in late October when many trees had shed their foliage already. Not driving, I had a chance to take more pictures. The reflections in the water with the stone outcrop caught my attention.
The artwork got me to thinking about less is more. Creating art should be relaxing. Yet, many of us, I feel, try so hard to fulfill our ideal artist image that Earth flattens and we fall over the edge.
Ideal. Not bad to have an ideal image of something. Not good to strive to achieve an ideal when in reality, we are unique, not necessarily an ideal. We might fit a person's ideal image, but that is their opinion. Thinking more, I ponder how to relax and just be myself without struggling.
To relax better. Quiet. No Internet, TV, phone, music. Just quiet surroundings with normal noises. Then I thought, why not take a day to go offline? Less Internet in order to gain creative control.
The orange nasturtium exercise this week on day 2, I almost forgot to look at it. There is sunshine this morning. I slept well. Now, I have a new plan to add...being offline during daylight hours from sunrise to sunset. This week offline will not be Wednesday because there are PBS shows I like to watch. I have too much to do on Thursday. Friday is busy as well. Ah, maybe trying out a block of hours to start is better, say from 1 PM to 7 PM.
Freezing Over?
A Perspective On America
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Route 17 Roadside Vermont Unplowed winter field in Addison County |
In the distance are the Green Mountains.
A Google map search for the specific name of that section, is as any search for a topographical map labeling all the mountain features, peaks, ranges, and such is very lacking. As lacking as me, after all these years, for not finding the right map I'm looking for in order to be able to name the Earth features I post photographs of. My bad. I will try to fix that.
I know for sure that horizon is the Green Mountain National Forest. The Green Mountains Presidential Range in Addison County Vermont is in those distant mountains, Mount Abraham 4006 feet, Mt Grant 3623 feet, Mt Cleveland 3482 feet, Mt Roosevelt 3528 feet, and Mt Wilson 3745 feet. One day I will figure out which peak they are. (Note, there is also a Presidential Range in New Hampshire.)
Until then...folks, that is a part of America you are looking at.
When you vote, you are protecting that land and all that is in it, including the living inhabitants. I say inhabitants instead of people as a courtesy because I don't know how many genuine not of Earth aliens there are, if any, on our planet. I suspect based on factual reports over decades, they are here or else it is us from another dimension.
I'm being realistic. If I sound crazy weird, then just take a look the person under inditement many are supporting as a candidate for President of the United States. Explaining that is far more strange than believing aliens from outer space live on planet Earth.
Seriously folks, think about that.
A Winter Rummage Sale...Woohoo!
A rummage sale in the middle of winter!
Yes, a local huge rummage sale at Saint Peter's Church lured me out and about ... around people.
I didn't look at every thing because there is so much. I will probably return for a leisurely browse. There are particular fabrics that I look for no matter what the garment.
Day 54 of Week 8 in February 2024
When the Sunshine Is Just Right
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Spider Plant & Friends |
The plants are moved to the dining table for a bask in the February morning sunshine. They can see outdoors to be glad they aren't out there on a very windy day. The outside flap for the stove hood vent signals high winds to me before I even look out the window.
Moving my life around to be in the sunshine would be nice. But, that would take a major move to a much lower latitude. Do you know the latitude you live at?
If you go to forecast.weather.gov (National Weather Service, NWS), and put in your zip code, then you will see a topographical map on the right with the Point Forecast for that station's zip code. Your exact coordinates can be taken by using a compass with that feature. (How far down from the North Pole you are and how far west from the meridian in Greenwich, England.)
Have you been on the Equator? To Hawaii? South America?