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.”
It’s Friday night and I’m still somewhat under the weather, needing to go to bed. I thought I’d share this photo from the recent Fall Festival at our church. This little girl had her hands full and she was having fun.
I took this photo a few days before the Parks Department mowed down all these lovely, fuzzy grasses. I got down at grass level to shoot this and I love the almost Impressionistic look that resulted. I hope you like it, too. I edged the photo in two different ways. Do you have a preference?
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
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.
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.
