A few more peeks at the visual feast that is Artful Blogging.
Rain soaked days. More than I can count now.
A new way home has me paddling through Los Angeles with new eyes. Tomorrow I’ll take the camera with me.
Before and after the rain there are plenty of smoky clouds…
If you live in the land of perpetual rain your wonderment at clouds may have dimmed. But not mine. The world is a secret hypnotic place with clouds floating about.
Maxfield Parish has been loading and unloading his paintbrush outside my workshop window. Clouds make it difficult to concentrate on anything but the sky. So I won’t.
Wyatt Earp agrees. Clouds have him waxing poetic on the table in front of the window. After work we both sat and stared and thought deeply about many things.
The senior member of the cat posse has no use for clouds. But newly formed watering holes with cold water are a different story.
Congratulations on your article in Artful Blogging! I just got my copy today. I grabbed a whole stack of new magazines and saved your article for the very last thing to look at. What a great afternoon it was for me. 🙂
WHERE IS MY COPY!?!!! I can’t vote when I don’t have my ARTFUL BLOGGER, FEATURING DISPATCH FROM L.A. !!
I found you through Artful Blogging…now I’ll have to play catch up with your posts!
I picked up my first can of spray paint tonight thanks to you. I stumbled on your blog last week I think and I’ve read most of the archives. I’m so excited to try stenciling. I have a couple of photos that I can use all ready to go.
Congratulations on being featured in Artful Blogger and thanks for the inspiration!
My dog also loves cold water, wherever he can find it. How cool. Congrats on the “Artful Blogging”! You can see I really have nothing of value to add, I just felt like saying “hello”.
Just got the latest Artful Blogging in the mail. Congrats! on your spread. These Maxfield Parrish clouds are rare, I love the stormy weather for this reason. I miss my kitty.
Looks like another great issue of Artful Blogging. Wonderful to have a sneak peek.
is that A song….I look at clouds….
I love clouds…(wait, is that song?) I have a collection of cloud pics…yours of the sunsetting clouds and the window pains….mmmmmmm
Clouds AND an issue of Artful Blogging?
(queue Napoleon Dynamite voice):
LUCKY…
Congrats m’Girl!!
Lisa H.
I’m still refusing to look at the peaks into the new Artful Blogging issue — but you are making it hard as he**, Mujer! Your photo of the Senior Gato and the new water source got me to thinking that’s what I could do with my pot graveyard … separate them and let them fill with water. We have so many hummingbirds still, hovering around our patio … maybe they would discover them if I sweeten the water and put the pots up on the block wall. I’m going to try it. The cloud pictures ROCK – our skies are looking very similar.
I agree, clouds are some of the most fascinating things to look at. You can imagine all kinds of things with clouds.
When I was small, and much littler (LOL), I would lie in the back of my parents car (you know up on that ledge thingy under the back window), and look at the sky on the way into town. Yes, and I would dream that the clouds were a great shoreline. They often looked like a long shoreline to a great big beautiful blue ocean to me. Remember, m.a., I grew up way back in the country on a ranch…no ocean was even near. This was how my daydreaming mind worked, and still does. Now my daughter loves clouds as much as I do~go figure! =)
LOVE the clouds, don’t you? It’s clear today, but I thought it was great fun. These photos are marvy.
Love your cat pictures! They sure have a lot of personality. Congratulations on the Artful Blogging feature—can’t wait to see the new issue. I LOVE the Bedlam Farm Journal–such wonderful farm & barn pics–I am working on some small rural landscapes with old buildings & barns—great inspiration here!
Christine
It did look like you had a Maxfield Parrish painting of a window on your wall…love it. It is nice that you see the silver lining in the clouds. I love rain…I also love snow, but I can also appreciate sun.
beautiful clouds – and there is rain here too
which has covered all surfaces with ice
including the roads of course – keeping me
home with the menagerie – Byz the cat insists
on drinking from the tap – must be the
minerals in the well water…
lovely visit as always – enjoy your view
and the rain…
xox – eb.
Our sky over central France is just like yours! The rain wants to turn to sleet.
I’ve heard that cats prefer to drink ‘old’ water from pots or puddles outside, not from badness but because there are all sorts of yummy minerals and things in there to do them good. Clever cats, eh?
Beautiful thoughts and photographs, nature always wins 🙂 While some people would complain of the constant rain, it’s great that you can see the ‘bright’ side.