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One more close-up mum photo—a still-opening bloom, but much farther along than the bud of a couple of days ago. Mums seem so ordinary until you get up close. A lesson of nature and of humanity.
Category: nature
august 30
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Here is a close-up of some autumn sedum which doesn’t look anything like the plant from afar, at least I don’t think of it in that way.
august 29
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A brief return to some close-up photography to capture some small mums I just planted last weekend. I love the tight spiral of beautifully-colored petals (I’m so used to the green of the coneflower bud).
august 1
5×3.5″ acrylic, collage
I have a lot of collage material from magazines: words, images, colors, patterns. I have a lot of collage material period! I picked out two words that appealed to me today. First came “beautiful.” It almost turned out to be “beautiful [some-other-thing],” but then I happened upon “world.”
I sketched out broadly what I thought I was going to paint, then I just started playing with the brush and paint. No masterpiece, just simple depictions of some of the images I am constantly thinking about after our mountain trip out west. I am ready for more mountains!
july 31
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We saw these flowers in Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton (where I took this photo). They look like huge dandelion seedheads, but I couldn’t find out what they really are. It may be difficult to tell in this close-up, but if any of you know what this is, comment below or email me!
july 30
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I’m not sure “vermilion” quite captures the color of this Artist’s Paintpot in Yellowstone National Park, but it’s the one that came to mind when I saw it.
july 29
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This doesn’t look like much, but when I walked by it was whisper-screaming steam noises. Weird. Again, Yellowstone.
july 28
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This was also taken in Yellowstone National Park in the Artist’s Paintpots area.
july 27
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Yellowstone National Park is a strange place—or rather, it’s a place with many strange features—or, maybe both! This is a bubbling mudpot that sometimes shot mud several feet into the air (be careful out there!). It’s so mono-colored neutral, but makes up for it in activity.
july 26
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Here are multi-colored rocks in a river also along the Redrock Falls trail in Glacier National Park, Montana. Beautiful, beautiful rocks in Glacier Park.