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Three Stops for Enchantment
So, I am driving along looking for a 2 hour free parking spot down town. This requires a lot of quick focus if you are alone. But something caught my eye.
Do I continue on with my parking drama? or do I stop for a better look?
I stop
because I need a closer look at this.
Clearly it is a fairy house, you can see her resting over to the left near her fire truck and her silver car. See her pink wings? Such a tidy little home she has.
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So, I am walking along my sometimes usual path to shop for supper when I notice this ~
I’ve seen this tree trunk many many times, but this time I saw it … upside down
and I could see exactly what was missing
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So, I am walking along a city block looking at all the amazing magnolia blossoms that are getting really serious about the coming Spring
and I wonder
will this bird be back?
Shadowland
Five Confessions
I am glad I do not live in Buffalo NY … but I think it would be Amazing!
These signs make me want to hop across the street like a cartoon in this frozen position
This looked like a dead man to me when I first saw it
Moments like these give me the shivers
I am grossed out and amused at the very same time
James Dean was Here
Image
a little moment
It all happened so fast
The sun was in the right place, it was the right season, it was a clear morning
and an open curtain, it was the right placement of the bowl …
and I was lucky enough to witness this little light show
~ the end ~
Ick Factor
Used gum is Icky … yes? … Yes!
Yes it is.
But I admit I had a bit of a fascination with it a while back. I even used it as the header image on my very first blog Some Things I find.
an old fav of mine, found at the BC Ferry Terminal
I was reminded of it again today, down at the Vancouver Art Gallery, but I was Totally out-Icked. This is what I saw. 
it’s an A B C Gum Fest (Already Been Chewed)
The idea is to add your own abc gum to this portrait of Douglas Copland, and add they did! And visitors still are, in between and getting photographed with it and taking selfies.
I found it curious that most of the gum was added onto the tip of the nose, pinocco-like.
a cigarette but and … why not, they actually go together, both are dropped onto the street and lift there
Total Ick! you can even see the teeth marks in some of this stuff
not to gross you out too much but this got me thinking about gum on the street again …
I haven’t noticed gum on the street lately. Is it that I just stopped looking? So I looked
See those dark spots? That’s old walked over gum
black gum spots
all the way home
Over 3 walking miles of old black gum marks
nothing fresh enough to stick to my shoe
It’s either all down at the Gallery or folks just aren’t spitting out gum their on the sidewalk as much anymore …
Might we be evolving?
Might we be coming more civilized in the gum department?
or maybe not, considering that the above gum head sculpture is considered to be Art,
a kind of performance Art
and … while we are on the subjust of gum …
Does anybody remember Black Jack Gum?
Nine Little Stories
Little Story One
Why do we keep pulling up these masterpieces?
Little Story Two
This is a Mimosa Tree. So sensitive that when you touch its leaves, they fold inward …
until they get to know your touch.
Is there anything more beautiful?
Little Story Three
This little painted bird is painted on an carefully chosen antique dictionary page
Look closely, you can see the text through it’s heart.
Little Story Four
My friend who took in a rescue dog from Mexico a few years ago and Loves all animals, bought 3 of my porcelain Elephants. The little one in the middle is a rescue elephant, it can hardly stand up by itself. I can not sell it or gift it because of this. It needs to lean on another elephant for support. It went to her home, a good home and is happy and well cared for there as you can clearly see. This family of 4 was meant to be ~
Little Story Five
There was a strange halo around the sun yesterday
I felt like I was in a science fiction novel
Little Story Six
This was at my door the other morning
I would like a calling card like that ~
Little Story Seven
I used to get in trouble over and over and over again for drawing on my wall paper.
I would have liked to live where she lives.
Little and Last Story Nine
Don’t we All need hope?
Here and There ~ A little Two Step
Gallery
This gallery contains 17 photos.
Living Sculpture
I was at The Vogue Knit Live conference in Seattle last weekend and came upon this living moving knitted art sculpture. I was so intrigued. It reminded me of Tai Chi Push Hands. I found myself coaching them with their binds and releases in my mind as they move so sensitively in tandem. They responded so subtly to each others slightest movement. Sometimes their give-and-take created a big knot between them slowly tangling themselves up, then they would slowly slowly untangled themselves like in a kind of living puzzle.
~ Slow down and watch this little slide show ~
the hands and mind behind this work is fiber and performance artist ~ Antonia Price from Seattle
I’m out for a walk
I think I’ll go out for walk…
I’ll leave a note ….
“I’m walking down the hill to the water then on to visit the ducks at Jericho, then after a coffee, I’ll head back up the hill to home.”
I saw a few pieces of wood and just had to make this reindeer horse ~
my signature
the bigger picture
… and the sun is going down
I see others were inspired to make beach creations
Oh My! is that real??? It DID make me pause for a moment and picked it up with a stick … it was plastic! Lots of plastic on the beach but this was unusual!
moving along ….
maybe I had squirming on my mind
but these are just water marks in the sand
Willows, so colourful!
looks like ‘Zoe and Wave’ made a driftwood boat on New Years Day
lastly, a loop
Time to head back up the hill to my warm home
crescent moon and a plane flying west ….
A little Hall Table fun
Last Fall we had this little visual conversation going on our front hall table. Each one of us would add, move or remove something on a whim, It lasted about a month, here is a little taste of our Hall Table Conversation
buddah board
flower flame power
street trees
off the charts red
earth nap
a must
every summer
to rest on the earth
Long Grass Braid
ballerina
forgotten fruit
~ uneasily beautiful ~
I see them everywhere
special stones & moss
hard & soft
you are …..
Magnolia Mandala
it’s a little Spring re-arrangement of what is already beautiful
context
if this leaf was not on a busy parking lot sidewalk
and in a jewelery store instead
it’s value might have been appreciated more
Pine Cone Puddle
someone filled this puddle with a variety of pine cones
as a function or art??
Chestnut Wrap
This chestnut got caught on a branch then dried in an embrace
it was there
~ never cry over spilled milk ~
laughing paper
I swear this little snarly bit of scrap paper was smirking at me
celebration of a frozen rock
and then the wind blew it all away
Nancy Walker Studio 