Song of Colours

Craving: Steel Magnolias

2012-02-19T16:09:00.002+02:00

"Thou standest like a high-born forest queen
Among thy maidens clustering round so fair,--
I love to watch thy sculptured form unfolding,
And look into thy depths, to image there
A fairy cavern, and while thus beholding..."

Christopher Pearce Cranch

MySpot: Through Still Days

2012-02-11T00:15:00.002+02:00

*Ph/ Manuela

"The yellow glare (...) streamed out into the steamy,
vaporous air,
and threw a murky,
shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

MySpot: Remember How the Stars Stole the Night Away

2012-02-05T21:56:00.003+02:00

*Ph/ Manuela

"In the night time

when the world is at it’s rest.
You will find me.

In the place I know the best.
Dancin’ shoutin’.

Flying to the moon.
Don’t have to worry."

Paul Kalkbrenner

Miscellaneous: One Stitch at a Time

2012-02-01T21:05:00.002+02:00

"Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket."

Charles Simic

Too Many People Grow Up

2012-01-24T20:28:00.000+02:00

"Children's games are hardly games."

Montaigne - Essays

Like Those of Castile...

2012-01-14T15:49:00.006+02:00

"A black cat among roses (...)
The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume..."

Amy Lowell

Miscellaneous: The Architecture of Red

2012-01-08T15:42:00.004+02:00

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

John Ruskin

Like Bells and Lights and Tinsel

2012-01-02T13:24:00.003+02:00

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..."

Clement Clarke Moore

Wrinkle Crisp Lines

2011-12-28T13:26:00.004+02:00

"This is what I have heard

at last the wind in December

lashing the old trees with rain

unseen rain racing along the tiles

under the moon

wind rising and falling

wind with many clouds

trees in the night wind."

W.S. Mervin

MySpot: Under the Willow Tree

2011-12-09T23:45:00.008+02:00

*Ph of me/ Dreamboy

"The sweet calm sunshine (...), now

Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold..."

William Cullen Bryant

Miscellaneous: Low Over the Water

2011-12-09T23:33:00.003+02:00

"Tangled branches of

Shadowy hair..."

Charlotte Ballard - The Maple Dances

MySpot: I Can Hear The Grass Grow

2011-12-01T22:50:00.004+02:00

*Ph of me/ Manuela

"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of... "

Garth Brooks

Something Eerie...

2011-11-19T22:55:00.001+02:00

"You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins."

Kay Boyle

MySpot: A Prophetic Breath of Autumn

2011-11-18T22:22:00.003+02:00

Ph of me/ Dreamboy

"diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement.

The yellow glare (...), the streamy, vaporous air (...)"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

MySpot: Walked for Half an Hour in the Garden

2011-11-12T20:47:00.005+02:00

*Ph of me/ Dreamboy

"If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house."

Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

MySpot: Just Like

2011-11-03T23:19:00.017+02:00

*Ph/ Manuela
*Ph/ Manuela

*Ph/ Dreamboy

*Ph/ Manuela
*Ph/ Dreamboy "... knows everything I ever think of when I sit here.
When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything;

I begin just where I left off."

Willa Cather

Green Woods

2011-10-23T20:47:00.006+03:00

"The turning spindles of the cells

weave a slow forest over space,

the dance of love, creation,

out of time moves not a leaf,

and out of summer, not a shade."

Kathleen Raine - Vegetation

Paws

2011-10-15T20:32:00.003+03:00

"... they know but do not tell."

Emily Dickinson

Miscellaneous: If You Walk by the Colour Purple

2011-10-09T01:17:00.004+03:00

"Flowers remain bright,

and white ones become luminous,

shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background."

Rosemary Verey - The Scented Garden

MySpot: Like a Tree Planted by the Rivers of Water

2011-10-01T17:40:00.010+03:00

*Photos of me by Dreamboy

"and the blues merge into their surroundings,

melting into the greens..."

Rosemary Verey - The Scented Garden

Miscellaneous: Red Cherry on Top

2011-09-21T22:18:00.008+03:00

"Merry, merry,

Take a cherry;

Mine are sounder,

Mine are rounder,

Mine are sweeter... "

Robert Graves - Cherry-Time

MySpot: Our Hearts Were Ringing in the Key that Our Souls Were Singing

2011-09-17T22:50:00.006+03:00

"Do you remember how we danced that night away

Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play

September morning still can make me feel this way."

Neil Diamond

Miscellaneous: As Rich As a Rose Can Be

2011-09-09T00:00:00.006+03:00

"Days of wine and roses laugh and run away... "

Johnny Mercer

MySpot: Yellow Dyeing

2011-09-07T21:08:00.009+03:00

*Photos/ Dreamboy

"Happily we bask in this warm September sun,

Which illuminates all creatures..."

Henry David Thoreau

MySpot: Third Transitional Piece

2011-08-14T00:30:00.012+03:00

* Photos/ Dreamboy

"There is still need to think and plan,

but on a different scale,

and along different lines."

C. S. Forester

Miscellaneous: Garnet

2011-08-10T22:38:00.004+03:00

"...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color."

Paul Klee

MySpot: My Green Sunset

2011-08-04T18:49:00.015+03:00

*Photos of me by Dreamboy

"Long on the wave reflected lustres play."

Samuel Rogers

Strawberry Fields Forever

2011-08-02T18:37:00.004+03:00

"(...) of the earth, innocent and sweet

with green leafy wings reaching heavenward."

Terri Guillemets

MySpot: The Waves Beside Them Danced

2011-07-19T21:11:00.010+03:00

*Photos by Dreamboy

"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle;

the water was quite unruffled,

but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that,

although there was not a breath of air stirring,

the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."

George Grey

MySpot: Mossy-Green Mansions of Delight

2011-07-07T22:38:00.001+03:00

*Photos by Dreamboy

"When the meadows laugh with lively green,

And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene; (...)

When the painted birds laugh in the shade..."

William Blake - Laughing Song

Our story takes place in a nice, cozy little farmyard...

2011-07-02T11:03:00.012+03:00

Ginger: "So laying eggs all your life and then getting plucked,

stuffed and roasted is good enough for you, is it?"

Babs: "It's a livin'."

Chicken Run

MySpot: ColorBlind

2011-07-02T00:02:00.007+03:00

*Photos by Dreamboy

"And so it is with the great clockwork of nature.

Daisies and buttercups give way to the brown waving grasses,

tinged with the warm red sorrel;

the waving grasses are swept away,

and the meadows lie like emeralds set in the bushy hedgerows (...)."

George Eliot - Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

Miscellaneous: Vast as the Heavens, Soft as a Kiss

2011-06-22T00:56:00.008+03:00

"A profusion of pink (...) speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring."

William Carlos Williams

MySpot: Most Recklessly

2011-06-06T18:54:00.007+03:00

* Photos by Dreamboy

"And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Miscellaneous: Light Between The Trees

2011-06-06T00:38:00.002+03:00

"Will the journey never end? (...)

Welcome waits us there, my friend.

Can we reach it ere the night?

Upward, upward, never fear!

Look, the summit must be near;

See the line of light!"

Henry Van Dyke

Miscellaneous: Delicate...

2011-06-06T00:15:00.005+03:00

"As lovely as soft bits of fragile crinkled silk,

These rosy blossoms, clustered thick

Upon the heavy drooping boughs,

When shaken by a summer wind,

Drop down in swirling showers,

And drift awhile about the ground;

Then gathered into frothy heaps beneath the hedge,

They spread a frill of rosy lace around the green lawns edge."

Leda Clements

MySpot: Pure Emerald Green, Particularly If It Has a Dash of Blue...

2011-05-19T23:14:00.011+03:00

* Photos by Dreamboy
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"Travelling southward earth changes from gray rock to green velvet."

Margaret Walker

Miscellaneous: Nice Day for White

2011-05-15T22:24:00.006+03:00

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"The old tree is shook

White blossoms slowly float down

Dancers in the wind."

Alexandra Kim

Ever-Fresh and Radiant Possibility

2011-05-03T20:25:00.005+03:00

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"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."

Joseph Heller

MySpot: When in Doubt...

2011-05-02T23:26:00.006+03:00

*Photos by Cipry and Dreamboy

"Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood,

it has a power with the eye."

Keith Haring

Miscellaneous: Of Late Winter and Early Spring

2011-04-17T18:47:00.007+03:00

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"Silently a flower blooms,

In silence it falls away..."

Zenkei Shibayama

MySpot: Like Spilled Honey

2011-04-10T18:23:00.013+03:00

. *All photos by Cipry

"I still don't know a place with lovelier Aprils.

The mornings and nights are fresh and cool,

and the sun pours down like spilled honey,

warm without the thick wet weight of the coming summer."

Anne Rivers Siddons

Miscellaneous: The Water Is The Same

2011-04-02T00:52:00.006+03:00

"Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah...

didn't miss the boat."

Mark Twain

MySpot: The Thin Red Line

2011-04-02T00:27:00.007+03:00

"The Grass Is Green & The Sky Is Blue..."

Everything's Gone Green

2011-03-18T23:38:00.005+02:00

"Spring slips into even the most hidden places of the countryside

and transforms them into mossy-green mansions of delight."

Anonymous

Miscellaneous: Magenta

2011-03-16T22:07:00.008+02:00

"Life is like a box of crayons. (...)

I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation...

So when I meet someone who's an 8-color type...

I'm like... ~Hey girl, magenta!~

and she's like... ~Oh, you mean purple!~

and she goes off on her purple thing,

and I'm like... ~No, I want magenta!~

John Mayer

Miscellaneous: An Old Standing Guardian

2011-03-10T23:33:00.005+02:00

"A few minutes ago every tree was excited,

bowing (...), waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship.

But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent,

their songs never cease."

John Muir

The 100th

2011-03-04T23:03:00.023+02:00

*by Cipry

*by Manuela

*by Cipry

*by Dreamboy

*by Manuela

Happy 100th Post!

MySpot: The Leaves Were Falling...

2011-02-22T19:10:00.008+02:00

"Invite your sweetheart to hold you tight

and just fall into those leaves together

and you will find yourself falling in love..."

Jayne Fisher - Autumn Love

Miscellaneous: Across the Surface of Things

2011-02-15T22:15:00.002+02:00

"You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?"

Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

High in The Blue Air Far Above It

2011-02-11T22:01:00.006+02:00

“A thousand fantasies

Begin to throng into my memory, (...)

On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.”

John Milton

Miscellaneous: Dog Days Are Over

2011-02-02T22:35:00.005+02:00

"I named my dog Stay so I can say,

~Come here, Stay. Come here, Stay.~"

Steven Wright

Miscellaneous: Some Kind of Snow

2011-01-22T21:06:00.003+02:00

"Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature."

Gerard de Nerval

Miscellaneous: Perpetual

2011-01-14T23:08:00.008+02:00

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"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it
shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten
different positions in a day."

Charles Caleb Colton

Miscellaneous: One Season Too Many

2011-01-05T20:38:00.005+02:00

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"The leaves were falling on all sides like the last illusions of youth under the tears of irremediable grief."

Henri Frederic Amiel

The Thinnest Yellow Light

2011-01-02T12:33:00.004+02:00

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"Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk

in the closing part of the afternoon,

and suddenly looked up to realize that the
leaves have practically all gone.

And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it -

and with that a cold wind blows across
the landscape."

Stephen Butler Leacock

MySpot: A Time to Love

2010-12-28T17:47:00.012+02:00

* photo by Manuela

"in the daytime

you will find me by your side

tryin' to do my best

and tryin' to make things right

when it all turns wrong

there's no fault but mine

but it won't hit hard

'cause you let me shine"

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Paul Kalkbrenner

Miscellaneous: The Cat Never Breaks a Rule

2010-12-18T22:00:00.007+02:00

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"Cats are glorious creatures

who must on no accounts be underestimated...

Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries."

Lesley Anne Ivory

Miscellaneous: Darkly / Deeply

2010-12-07T21:10:00.004+02:00

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"Forming and breaking in the sky,

I fancy all shapes are there;

Temple, mountain, monument, spire;

Ships rigged out with sails of fire,

And blown by the evening air."

J.K. Hoyt

Inhuman Lack of Color

2010-12-01T22:45:00.005+02:00

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"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent,

of forms assembled in the light."

Le Corbusier

Revive from Ashes and Rise

2010-11-22T20:26:00.007+02:00

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"I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain."

John Masefield - Beauty

MySpot: Close Up on Green

2010-11-16T21:23:00.006+02:00

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"and heart-shaped (...) of rich green"

Walt Whitman

Engrave This

2010-11-06T13:53:00.008+02:00

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"Architecture aims at Eternity."

Christopher Wren

Indirect Sample of What It Contains

2010-11-01T21:00:00.006+02:00

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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

MySpot: Like Slow Old Tunes

2010-10-25T22:47:00.014+03:00

* photo by Manuela

"There is a temple in ruin stands,

Fashion'd by long forgotten hands;

Two or three columns, and many a stone,

Marble and granite, with grass o'ergrown."

Lord Byron

MySpot: Liberal Allowance of Time

2010-10-16T20:58:00.019+03:00

* photo by Manuela

* photo by Dreamboy

* photo by Manuela

"That's how you saw the city and that's the way you loved it. Seat
of activity and laziness, alone with history, encastled in its
buttresses, under whose jutting eaves eternal time and deep
reality built their nests, where tirelessly one day after another
returns. Its stone, which even though set in civilized forms has no
need to renounce its roots in untouched nature, is strong; but the
light is stronger, and there light is the crown and foundation of
stone."

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Luis Cernuda, Stephen Kessler - Written in water

MySpot: We Have Had Our Summer Evenings

2010-10-09T22:24:00.020+03:00

* photo by Manuela

* photo by Dreamboy

*photo by Manuela

*photo by Dreamboy

*photo by Manuela

"Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting

Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,

Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter

Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.(...)

Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset

Rich, deep like love in beauty without end."

George Meredith - Love in the Valley

MySpot: Question of Perspective

2010-10-03T21:40:00.022+03:00

* photo by Dreamboy

*photo by Manuela

* photo by Manuela

* photo by Dreamboy

* photo by Manuela

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"the dance of love, creation,

out of time moves not a leaf,

and out of summer, not a shade."

Kathleen Raine