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The 1962 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine is an art piece called Making Change by artist Monica Mahoney. The Cadillac is covered in $952 worth of coins and sits outside the 21C Museum Hotel in Bentobville, Arkansas.
The creation of a dream or maybe a nightmare....perhaps an android fabricated in the mind
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Lots of this going on around here these days.
What you see here is the top of an 8 foot piece of 2x4 that i have attached to my patio rail so that I can stretch a thick piece of landscape fabric between it and the house to cut down on the stray light when using my telescope. When the female swallow stops her nest building for a moment or two and flies to the top of it, it seems to signal the male that she is ready and willing. He wastes no time in accomodating her. :-)
Bella inspecting my wooden jigsaw cat & kittens ornament. I found this years ago in a craft market & watched the artist working on other pieces while he talked with customers.
Happy Caturday.
One unexpected bonus of picking up a digital camera after retiring has been the interactions I have had with thousands of people, online and at shows where I exhibited photographs of barns and wildlife. My initial intentions in buying my first camera were simply to explore a hobby I had always had an interest in, but never had the time to engage.
My gruff German dad would laugh if he were alive to see my subject emphasis. He always told me that if I spent as much creativity working in the barn as I did in trying to find ways to avoid it, I would be very valuable.
The hours I have spent reading and listening to older country folks reminisce about their lives as they struggled with having nothing when they started farming to making a decent living later on were inspiring.
Decades ago, a simple house like this one nestled in the green shade of summer was the dream of a young couple starting out. When they built this small farmhouse, the attached garage was likely an afterthought, a homemade addition crafted from spare boards and nails, yet it felt like a luxury.
Back then, cars were often left outside to face the rain and snow, and an attached garage meant you could step from the kitchen to your car without immediately facing a brutal Minnesota winter morning.
Attached garages only became popular in the U.S. around the 1940s and 50s, when the automobile became the centerpiece of family life. Before that, detached barns or sheds were common, sometimes doubling as storage for farm tools and chickens.
For a couple living in this house, adding that garage must have felt like a sign they were “making it,” turning a simple farmhouse into something more modern.
Inside these walls, you can imagine children growing up, their muddy boots lined by the door after chores, the scent of wood smoke drifting from the stove. The back porch, though weathered now, once echoed with laughter on summer evenings and the hum of a screen door slamming after little feet ran out to chase fireflies.
Though the years have passed and the trees have quietly crept closer, this house still whispers the story of hard work, determination, and a family who called this modest place their forever home.
It’s not popular today in some circles to talk about the ill effects it has on younger people when they begin their young adult years already possessing cars, houses, and bank accounts that took their parents 40 years to attain.
But amid our prosperity, there are still older folks who wistfully recall the satisfaction they felt when they started with little but gradually built a life, a family, and a heart full of memories they would not exchange for anything.
(Photographed near Chisago County, MN)
I'm making it here the south Indian style, I ground an impromtu Sambar masala and made it with a red chilli tadka.
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This is a park I had been to many times and this particular day was looking like any other day. I wasn't seeing anything new to photograph. But then I saw the sprinklers. This wasn't new, but they created something different. I took shots of them like they were models on a fashion catwalk. I took all the pics in color as I always do but converted a few of them to b&w. (Cascade Locks area DSC_8553.jpg)
I visited the Padaung (or long neck tribe) nearby Loikaw, Myanmar. I bought a scarf from this woman after watching her weave.
Es war total schön heute mit Dir, Hilde !! Es macht Spaß mit Dir auf dem nassen Waldboden herumzulümmeln ... :-)))))) ....
Tom and I met my mom and sisters in Michigan's famous "Christmas Town" (Frankenmuth) for the holidays last weekend.
This (and more) was featured in a blog post! I'd love it if you took a look at the whole set.
Luisa Romeo, "The Styx, A Stereo Window".
Oil on linen
161 x 161 cms
There's just something about that hand pointing at Luisa Romeo's painting. It reminds me of Michelangelo's hand of God, but that's as far as I go with that comparison. Perhaps I was thinking of the mythical underworld and the Styx that needed to be crossed once life in this plane ends.
But the reality is more mundane. There is indeed a Styx River in southern Tasmania. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_River_(Tasmania) And this painting reminds us of the old stereoscope slides from the past. Please do enlarge this photo and see the detail in her brushwork. I love the way she has captured the tannin rich waters, the result of button grass throughout much of Tasmania.
From the Catalogue:
"The preliminary drawings and photographic documentation were gathered where only a hundred metres away were scenes of major destruction and decimation of land through heavy handed forestry activities. The roads that were travelled to reach this sublime space, are the very same road networks that were established to cart away our very lifeline of existence. We have to consider the possibility these stereoscopes captured in oil and pigment will be the only way to view these landscapes in coming decades, assuming even they survive the wanton expansion of the human race. A reminder of what we could preserve from being mindful of the destruction caused by our collective narrow focus on fiscal gain prioritised over the earth's bounty of natural resources and beauty. What are we collectively losing from this practice of narrow focus financial gain?"
Plenty to debate there. I suspect the camera will have a bigger say than the brush, but that's a photographer's point of view.
a make-up artist paints face to look like a demon on the eve of charak festival celebration in rural bengal.
Must admit spring into summer makes me feel like a child in a sweet shop! So many flowers to chose from. This poppy still had the sepal cover attached which is always fun I find.
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