new ideas.....

I saw a quote on a favorite blog of mine, it said,

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

(~ I don't know who originally said it, though,....oops!)

Matisse said....

"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it."

Interesting. Are they talking about the same thing? I can, indeed, relate to both, although, the second is more comforting.

I'm fresh out of deep thought, today, though, and I don't know what I'm saying....

It never rains but it pours and I want to mention that, just in the slightest case you were wondering where my other blog, In The Sunny Spot is, I've been wrangling with a better domain name for it, today, and hopefully, if all goes well,  my blog will show up, again, tomorrow.

I can't leave you like that, though...how about this:

"A fallen souffle is just a risen omelette. It depends on how you look at it, that's all - from above or below."

~Rabbi Lionel Blue

What in the world am I talking about.....?

V-day!

Valentine's Day always comes barreling at me, every year. I've only just collected myself from last year's Christmas festivities - picked myself back up, dusted off my skirt, taken a deep breath, looked around me and....blam! Over I go - not ready for another holiday. I have learned, though, to buy my V-day chocolate early, at the beginning of the month. This way, when the realization that I should probably attempt some sort of craft, write out three class worth's of little cards (that's about eighty little valentine's to be addressed and have a little piece of chocolate attached) and that there is no way to avoid the guilt that I haven't done anything for the extended family (sorry mom and dad =( ) - when the realization that this needs to happen soon and I don't know what to do hits - I can, at least, soothe my guilt by breaking into the chocolate a few days early, while the kids are at school. It really helps me to avoid feeling too stressed out.

Actually, I think that chocolate with walnuts is good for me in so many ways! =]

Especially if I eat them while looking at a bouquet of pretty flowers....

...followed by a glass of milk to finish it off!

I think that this is why our tradition of celebrating Valentine's lasts all week long.

Actually,

I might just love Valentine's Day, after all!

;)

pssst! and a happy V-day to you, too!!! =]

a summer dream

 

Trying to Observe Color

Monet described his attempts to observe and capture the colors in nature thus: “I’m chasing the merest sliver of color. It’s my own fault, I want to grasp the intangible. It’s terrible how the light runs out, taking color with it. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes three or four minutes at a time. What to do, what to paint in three or four minutes. They’re gone, you have to stop. Ah, how I suffer, how painting makes me suffer! It tortures me.”*

Poor Monet! A camera is quicker than paint! (heh, heh!....just kidding!) Actually, I've been thinking about the golden hour and how beautiful it is and how quickly the most beautiful moments go by and how much I try and want to catch some of it, somehow, but always fall short. I've been wondering, now that it's frozen February, why I wasn't out, every evening, in my backyard, this summer. I'm rich! I have a whole five acres of this but summer is so short lived. So, now, I'm looking out the window of my memory, thrumming my fingers and waiting for it to come around again.... a midwinter's summer dream....

* The quote comes from an "About.com" article (of all things) Techniques of the Impressionists: What Colors are Shadows?