CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND - COME OUT OF THE COLD
CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND - COME OUT OF THE COLD
Warm youirselves up by posting something creative, photo, painting, sculpture, whatever. Take your mind off of invasions, kidnappings, threats, tariffs, murders, expenses and give yourself a little time to relax with a little creativity, a little beauty, a little fun.
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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That is a beautiful photo.
Thanks.
From my collection of photos taken in China....
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Nice stuff, Buzz. Do the water wheels in the 4th and 5th photos move, or are they just for show?
LOL. Actually, I don't remember. It was at least 6 years ago that we were there.
Cloud (© G. Gam)
As Joni sang, yoiu've shown us a different side of a cloud.
Nice one. The bit of lavender in the lower left makes for an interesting color contrast.
I recently watched the movie Nope, and your cloud reminded me of it, lol.
Thanks. The lavendar is a few leaves on a tree with the color inverted. I like how it looks.
I don't know the movie.
I was curious about what that was in the bottom left corner as well.
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JR, there are a lot of great photos and info about photo contests but I'm concerned that your link leads to advertising as well. It is rather comprehensive and very long - perhaps should be posted as an independent article once you have deleted the spam.
Morning...what a stunning photo...
It's a hot one.
A new record - the Creative Arts Weekend article has never before been pushed off the Front (Home) Page less than 24 hours (i.e. the same day) from the time it was posted. A.Mac, who has enough concerns these days already, will be sadly hurt by such lack of interest in his mainstay article.
Yesterday's sunset.
I'm in the process of making a new heated cat house for the front porch. Not for Gracie, who is an indoor cat, but for a neighbor's cat that has basically rehomed himself here in the past year or so. The neighbors have something like a dozen cats, and a couple other males were always trying to fight him, so it seems he'd rather be over here where he can find some peace. He's too big for the old cat houses I made years ago, so he gets a new and bigger one. Here I have the door cut out, and holes drilled in the sides for the fasteners I'm going to use to hold up the 3 mm insulation and carpet that will line the inside.
Progress is slow, however, because everything I do has to be inspected and approved by Gracie.
A FANTASTIC sunset. As for your kindness to the "MIGRANT" cat, you are to be commended.
Excellent!
A "Migrant" cat, eh?
(All well and good, but if someone rings your doorbell and they are from ICE you must let the cat out your back door or find a place to hide him ASAP!!!)
But Dig is building him a home.
Beautiful!
Morning Dig..what an excellent idea for the moggy...I am sure he will appreciate it..
Animals can sense when they are wanted or not and they go where they are happiest..it looks like you have been chosen and what a privilege..
Many of our cats over the years have been strays...we even inherited our first Scotch Collie who adopted us...
Beauty, use to live over the road across from us, but she would come to our house every day and not want to go home..
The family shifted a few streets away and every morning Beauty would walk to our house and stay..Open the back door and there she was..
In the end my mum went and saw the family and said we would take her if they didn't want her or have time for her..
It was agreed that if she was at our house the following morning she was ours to keep...she was sitting at our back door the following morning...and the rest as they is history..🐾🐾
That's a really nice story.
My college friend was adopted by her neighbor's cat. The neighbors weren't mean to the kitty, but they didn't really interact with her much. She used to visit my friend every morning for pets and treats and then just sort of made herself at home full time. She refuses to sleep inside overnight, but otherwise, she's my friend's cat entirely now.
She also has a heated kitty house.
I only had a few pets in my life, but the one who was my buddy for 17 years, and I still think of him warmly, was my cat Fidget.
I've seldom been without at least one cat. Currently, I have two cats and one dog. But my favorite of all of them was Todd, my cat when I was in college. He had so much personality. I knew he was the one when my then-husband and I went to the animal shelter, looking to adopt a cat. He was hanging from the bars of his kennel, pupils wide with that "I NEED TO RUN" look that cats get when they have the zoomies. Sold!
Arvo..same here always had a dog or cat but my current one Mishka will be my last..
I dread the day she will depart but after my diagnosis etc I decided then no more animals..cats dogs live years, Mishka just turned 15 and that is my main aim, to out live her. She wouldn't go to anyone else..
You miss them all when they depart..
They leave paw prints across your heart..🐾🐾❤️
Every one of them.
I always thought of myself more a cat person than a dog person, but my son wanted a dog, so now I have a dog. And he's getting some years on him. I don't know what I'll do when he's not at the top of the stairs, entire back half wagging, when I get home from work.
Animals know how to love.
I understand, but hope you get to scratch the ears and bellies of many friends' fur babies for years.
Morning...no all good..my brother and SIL house backs on to mine and they have 3 cats..
So if I need a kitty fix I will just go over there..I also look after the cats when they go away overseas etc..my cat hates them but will follow me over and sits there and glares at them.. 🤣
LOL. So you have to now and then preside over "The War of the Cats"?
Oh yeah... my cat and his have had a few dust ups over there the years..
Locked in battles complete with fur flying.. Mishka is fluff plus being a ragdoll so all his cats get is mouthfuls of fur..🤣
But MIshka gets even, your brother gets the fur balls to clean up. LOL.
First crop of tomatoes for 2026 has begun..
Go ahead, make me drool. Tomatoes are one of my favourite things to eat, as it was my father's - I used to watch him eat them like apples, and I eat mini-ones (cherry-tomatoes, grape-tomatoes) almost every day. However what really gets to me is that the people here eat the regular-sized ones before they are ripe - red outside but white and hard inside. It's almost impossible to find a ripe tomato for sale, and unfortunately my wife doesn't grow them. Oh for a tomato sandwcih today......
Can you not grow some plants in a pot and put them on a balcony if you have one?
OMG! You just reminded me. I INTENDED to do that but it was the coldest time of the year, as it is now, and I FORGOT once it was Spring.
LOL. Almost forgot the weekend was done. Thanks to all who posted. Hope to see you all next weekend.