Today’s the day when we can say, at least on Sally’s blog and those of the participants, that everything really is black and white. In their last days, these natural beauties translate seamlessly into that medium. Like a person who ages well, age isn’t what you notice first, but the character and beauty of the details. As Rod Stewart once put it, “You wear it well.”
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Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Black and White…you wear it well
Posted: October 19, 2015 in Nature, Phoneography Challenge, PhotoRehabTags: #photo101rehab, black and white photography, iPhoneography, Nature, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge
Why I take photos.
Posted: October 17, 2015 in Personal, PhotoRehab, QuotesTags: #photo101rehab, Nature, personal, photography, quotes, Sam Abell, Why I take photos
Because I need simplicity today
Posted: October 13, 2015 in Miscellaneous, Nature, PhotoRehabTags: dew drops, miscellaneous, Nature, Photo101 Rehab, simplicity
Hands full
Posted: October 10, 2015 in Miscellaneous, PhotoRehabTags: children, fun, Photo101 Rehab, portrait
Wordless Wednesday….grass
Posted: October 7, 2015 in Nature, PhotoRehab, Wordless WednesdayTags: #photo101rehab, grass, Nature, Photo Rehab, Photo101 Rehab, Photog Friends, Things that start with G, Wordless Wednesday
Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Nature…fuzzy grasses
Posted: October 5, 2015 in Nature, Phoneography Challenge, PhotoRehabTags: #photo101rehab, iPhoneography, natural grasses, Nature, Photo Rehab, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge
Photo101 Rehab: Dawn
Posted: September 30, 2015 in Nature, PhotoRehab, QuotesTags: #photo101rehab, dawn, iPhoneography, Nature, Photo Rehab, Photo101 Rehab, sunrise
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav’n,
and strikes
The Sultan’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.
~Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
~Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost, New Hampshire
Wordless Wednesday…Sunrise
Posted: September 23, 2015 in Nature, PhotoRehab, Wordless WednesdayTags: #photo101rehab, Nature, Photo Rehab, sunrise, Wordless Wednesday
Photo Rehab…I see dead people.
Posted: September 22, 2015 in Nature, PhotoRehabTags: autumn, cycle of life, dead plants, I see dead people., Nature, Photo Rehab, Photo101 Rehab, The Sixth Sense
Probably the best kept secret in the history of movies was the ending to “The Sixth Sense.” Once you knew that the boy saw dead people, everything you thought you knew turned on its head and the movie was completely different.
I see dead plants…or at least I see the beauty in them. Here are a few of the end-of-season beauties I’ve come across on recent walks in the park. Considering that in the northern hemisphere, today is the first of autumn, I think it’s appropriate time to post them. Perhaps they’ll get you thinking differently about dead people…er, plants. But one of the exciting things these plants, as you can see, most of them contain the seeds of next year’s life. The cycle of life.
Let’s go see Legos!
Posted: September 15, 2015 in Art, Nature, Personal, PhotoRehabTags: anniversary, art, Lego creations, Legos, Morton Arboretum, Nature, personal, Photo101 Rehab, Sean Kenney
Duplos and Legos are some of the best toys ever made…for children and adults. When our girls were little, we had a friend, a lovely Turkish woman, who came over once a week. She and I would have tea and chocolate when the girls took their naps, but when they were up, she often joined them in creating Duplo/Lego masterpieces. (And were we sad when they finally gave up napping!!)
Morton Arboretum, a jewel in the Chicago suburbs, currently features “Nature Connects®: Art with LEGO® bricks by Sean Kenney.”
Recently, we wandered the section of the gardens where the various creations were presented. Here’s a sample of what we saw.