CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
In the words of A.Mac, introducing this group....
"Post Your Imagery & Artwork, Bring a Friend; Experiment, Let's Talk "Photography," "Digital Art," "Photoshop (Image-editing Applications)," Decorative & Functional Art."
While A.Mac is unable to participate these days, please don't let him down.
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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Evening...a follow on from the photo last week with my water lily in the bowl..
The flower is now out...
Beautiful - much prettier than the ones I've seen here.
(© G. Gam)
(© G. Gam)
Those images should be submitted to a contest. What is a little strange about the second one is that the light comes from the left on the statue, but from the right on the moon (or planet?).
Optical illusion, the object to the right is a hole and therefore lit in the same direction.
LOL. Very clever!!!
If it's a waxing moon and it's 238,900 miles away would you necessarily expect they would have the same light source? Besides, I think the image looks better with the "moon" situated as it is and I'm the artist!
Okay, you're the boss. My apology for questioning your artistic freedom.
Yeah, that's what my wife tells me, too, but I don't believe it for a second.
Really love that first one!!!
Thanks!
Sometimes you just gotta stare at an ass or two...
I love donkeys. I got to ride one for a donkey basketball game in high school
When I retire and move out of the city I'm going to look for a mini-donkey... and maybe a couple of chickens.
I would like to have a donkey. It would be more or less a pet.
Chickens would be nice, too, but we don't eat a lot of eggs
Donkeys can play basketball?
But they're too big for an aquarium.
I'm the egg man (so sang the Beatles). I eat at least 2 eggs a day.
Yes, but not very well. They hate to pass the ball
I bet they'd get beaten by giraffes.
Giraffes suck at the 3 point throw
I guess I need a bigger aquarium?
Like the one Kirk and his crew used to bring the humpback whales to the 23rd century in The Voyage Home?
Transparent aluminum...
Only one inch thick, beats 6 inches of plastic.
They don't look like fish to me.
French Quarter, two minutes ago.
French Quarter where? Isn't that a bamboo bush?
New Orleans. I was surprised at the bamboo too. It looks old enough to have survived Katrina. I’m guessing the top of the fountain is Katrina damage that was purposely left in place.
Bamboo is a strng plant. It can survive under poor conditions. (And when conditions are good they grow very rapidly!)
Whoops-- typo!
That should be:
Bamboo is a strong plant.
LOL. When I first read your comment I didn't even notice it. I once saw an article on that happening when poeple read.
Bamboo is an invasive weed and if you don't want it, don't ever get any.
Panda bears need it.
My morning walk in photos and words...
I got started around 8AM when the sun was just clearing Campground Mountain and dancing with the altostratus clouds. Warmer this morning than it has been lately, with patches of frost sublimating into the cool air and giving the trees a misty appearance.
It was a beautiful day for walking. Not sure how far I went. I walked down the road that you can see, past my grandparents old house, past the pavement ending, past the campground proper, past the Red Rocks, a large outcropping rich in potassium feldspar that juts out into the Hudson River. Walked past the collection of camps known locally as Burvanna (I have never seen it spelled out, so that is just a phonetic approximation) and on till the road ended at a gate, turning into a path on what appeared to be very old logging roads on state land.
I kept walking. Watching the hills go by. Veering away from the river, through areas that looked like they could be boggy given a bit of rain, up through conifers, into large stands of oak, ash and beech, I walked through the carpet of leaves felled by the recent rains, the patchy frost still clinging to the shaded areas. A large circular region of about a yard in diameter looked as if it had been somewhere an animal had slept on some prior night. Not last night, though, because the ground had gotten pushed up by the moisture and the cold into a delicate, dirty lacework.
I looked at my phone and saw that I had been walking briskly for 45 minutes, so I turned into the woods and walked towards the sound of the river.
Picking my way down, I cross a stream and circle wide to find a way around the boggy bits and to the shore.
Looking up river there is no clear sign of human activity, but one can see that animals have been down to avail themselves of water and a place to bed down.
The same goes for downstream....
But it is getting late and I need to something else with my day besides walk and enjoy my locality.
Peace, love and hippy-shit!
Images and words Copyright 2025 TomEArtSite.
From your words and photos I can see that you live somewhere beautiful, peaceful and refreshing. But since my eyesight is waning I cannot see the road that you said "I walked down the road that you can see,..." The only time I was on the Hudson River was over half a century ago when I met Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi on board their yacht Clearwater.
Here you go, Buzz.
The road runs along the River In front of the Houses
Oh, okay, you meant the road is at the bottom left corner of the photo. Thanks. Even though I'm not Robert Frost, it was a road less seen.
Evening Thomas...great descriptive writing and photos...almost felt like I was walking beside you...
Love it when the ground has that earthy smell and hearing the water rushing by...and your part of the world at that time, is at peace...