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7-Nov-10 - 0036c : Sydney, Australia - 'From Optimism to Hope'
This is a view of 2010 Sculpture By the Sea Exhibit #40 : - 'From Optimism to Hope' by artist Andrew Rogers. The official guide book quotes the artist as stating his sculpture is 'A group of organic pulsing forms reflecting the will to interpret and render the abstract essences of being.'
Taken at Mark's Park midway between Bondi Beach and Tamarama Bay.
Number 15 Recreation Grove, Holbeck Leeds. For sale at £50,000 even though on the other side of the street the houses are boarded up awaiting demolition.
Part of my Regeneration Collection www.flickr.com/photos/meerstone/collections/7215762355958...
For a hole in the ground this makes me excited, wholly optimistic.
A few months ago my first reaction would be to curse the plague of rodents; a rat. Today it's different.
A quick bit of reassessment from that circular rim of soil pushed up speaks of something different. It's not a spider — too big, too exposed. They want burrows with cover for their ambush strategy. Rodents dig with their paws; kicking soil behind them. Whoever dug in here bored down, rotating and pushing the soil aside. Besides, it's in the wet patch right next to the weep hole in that dripline. That's not a rat thing. That's a frog thing.
Why I'm so happy about a hole in the ground is that this is clear evidence that after the devastation of years of drought that the imperiled frog population is rebounding. Once common, such a hole had become rare.
Because they were once common, and commonly encountered from their burrowing habit and nocturnal emergence to hunt on dry land, the Pobblebonk, Limnodynastes dumerilii, for all it's drab appearance, is likely my favourite frog.
Optimism Waterfall desktop print image: Jump-start each day with a 5"x7" framed desktop print in every work area. This easel-backed framed desktop print has a matching motivational poster.
I thought I'd add this to the mix. I'm cleaning out leftover buttons & baubles
by duplicating the dot pattern of the trim onto a scrap of fabric.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door— or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore
I happened across this painter's bicycle in a little fishing village in Spain, called Caraques. He had probably been painting the adjacent doors, as the brush was in the box, on the back of the bike.
I liked the chain, securing the bike. (As if anyone was going to take it!!!)
I've called it "Optimism" as a result.