~~...But this blue I'm compelled to glorify—
it's not robin's egg, navy, or indigo;
it's a shade that should be named "devastation blue..."

~from Another Poem on Blue by Claire Bateman


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~~From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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~~Pink is a nice place to live - if you happen to be
a lime. ~xola



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~~The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice...
It must
Be the finding of a satisfaction, and may
Be of a man skating, a woman dancing, a woman
Combing. The poem of the act of the mind.

~from “Of Modern Poetry” by Wallace Stevens


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~~lunas
collage 11" x 14"
2006







~~and a scientific counterpart to my collage image

NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission revealed last year that Titan, one of Saturn's moons, has spectacular landscapes apparently carved by liquids. The surface glows yellow-orange. Dark streaks across the planet are shadows cast by the planet's rings. Cassini took this beautiful image of Titan with its orange surface shining against the purple halo of its atmosphere.

~~Some responses to some readers of xola

∂ Click on images to enlarge
∂ Click in "Archives" to see all images in a month
∂ See “Comments” for further elucidations
∂ There will be a new image every day (I hope!)
∂ My camera is a Canon PowerShot A610
∂ Photos & collages are mine
∂ My photo editor can do contrast, brightness & crop-that’s it!

~~California is a fine place to live—if you happen to be an orange. ~Fred Allen


What is green? The grass is green,
With small flowers between.
What is violet? Clouds are violet
In the summer twilight.
What is orange? Why, an orange,
Just an orange!

~~Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)


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~~světle fialová*

~~Violet is a combination of red and blue, colors that display diametrically opposed personalities. Violet and other hues in its family variously wrap themselves in cloaks of mystery, richness, refinement, malaise, trouble or provocation. As a balance between red and blue this color represents meditative, soul searching thought. (Ahhhhh)

Violet attempts to unify the impulsive conquest of red and the gentler surrender of blue - suggesting enchantment, and the blurring of thought, desire and reality. Violet represents a longing for wishes to be fulfilled and a desire to charm others. (Well....)

Violet is also the color of fantasy, playfulness, impulsiveness, and dream states. In its negative mode, it can suggest nightmares, or madness. (Oh dear!)

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~~Memory of the Future
collage 8" x 9"
2005



~~In Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen explains to Alice that the advantage looking glass people have in living backward is that, "One's memory works both ways." To this, Alice replies, "I'm sure MINE only works one way. I can't remember things before they happen." And the White Queen responds dismissively, "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward."

~~Written in Stone*






The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell





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~~Dancers in the Dark~~*


Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? ~Lewis Carroll


~~"...now dancing this way, now that, sometimes with a heavy beat, sometimes with a lightness and grace, ever flowing freely. Now they become the dance, now the dance becomes them. This is the message of the Wu Li Masters: not to confuse the type of dance they are doing with the fact that they are dancing." ~The Dance of the Wu Li Masters - An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav



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~~"...If only you could see..."






Monet Refuses the Operation

Doctor, you say that there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don't see,
to learn that the line I called the horizon
does not exist and sky and water,
so long apart, are the same state of being.
Fifty-four years before I could see
Rouen cathedral is built
of parallel shafts of sun,
and now you want to restore
my youthful errors: fixed
notions of top and bottom,
the illusion of three-dimensional space,
wisteria separate
from the bridge it covers.
What can I say to convince you
the Houses of Parliament dissolve
night after night to become
the fluid dream of the Thames?
I will not return to a universe
of objects that don't know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent. The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.
To paint the speed of light!
Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
burn to mix with air
and changes our bones, skin, clothes
to gases. Doctor,
if only you could see
how heaven pulls earth into its arms
and how infinitely the heart expands
to claim this world, blue vapor without end.

~ Lisel Mueller ~

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~~Shadow Matter


~~It doesn't matter whether something is real. What matters is whether it's true.







"Shadow matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is thought to interact with ordinary matter only through the force of gravity. Planets, stars, and galaxies made of shadow matter could conceivably exist in the same space and time we occupy without our sensing their presence."

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~~Waiting for Spring



Just sitting quiety, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
~  Zenrin poem





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~~Morning Skylight








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~~ "RED is the most joyful and dreadful thing in the physical universe; it is the fiercest note, it is the highest light, it is the place where the walls of this world of ours wear thinnest and something beyond burns through." C.K. Chesterton

~~"...one should never ignore surface meanings in favor of implications." A.S. Byatt

~~sometimes your only available transportation
is a leap of faith~~{a drawing of mine from '99}

~~Frog symbolism -

In many cultures frogs are linked to the element in which they reside: water. In myths they figure as bringers of rain or thunder, calling the water down with their croaking. In the Vedas, the croaking of frogs is said to be a thanksgiving to Heaven for the fertilizing Spring rains. In Vietnam the toad was called the 'sky-god's uncle' who told the sky-god when to pour out the water. In the Celtic tradition, each stream and spring had its own spirit, and frogs were considered the messengers of these water spirits. Because of its connection to rain and water, the frog was also associated with the cleansing and healing powers of water. Frog eggs were thought to cure rheumatism, and to cure a sore eye, a person only had to lick it after first licking a frog's eye.

~~Connections

Another frog with another "egg" - I'll have too explore the symbolism of these two manifestations. This one has resided on my kitchen window sill for years.

~~ Delicious deluge!

~~This morning I looked outside and saw a tiny white egg in a flowerpot right by the window. How was it possible? No trees nearby. No nests visible. Hmmmmm. The day before Easter.... I brought it inside and set it on a side table for Mother to look at. Next to my bronze frog.

Happy Spring!

xola


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~~Stop Being Afraid Mudra

~~Bricolage

Construction or creation from a diverse range of available things. Creating a new world out of the material of the old.