Seasons in Thought and life

ROUNDING UP MAY

Butterflies seem so happy when they flitter and flutter. Love the Unique saucer:) ABC Wed.- U A thumbs up to WordPress! When last week I saw a cookie banner across my blog, I thought, O no! Expecting they would go the same way as google. But in reading wordpress cookies policy, I can opt…

PERSPECTIVE on Memorial Weekend

By the way: if you see the cookie banner, it is a CHOICE to accept the cookies. I tried ignoring it with other wordpress blogs, and nothing happens when you don’t accept! (Don’t know if it would be different for blogspot blogs). Some things may seem little or insignificant, but it’s opposite, and visa versa….

CITY WALK

FOR YOU WHO are looking for the ALL SEASONS post this week (open till Wednesday 7pm), it is the post underneath this one. If you don’t know how to navigate: scroll down to the marine blue part, and click on All Seasons post in the row of posts listed there:) Would not have chosen…

WHERE S THE PARTY

WHERE’s the party, guys? At oldest daughter’s house – a graduation party third year in a row:) California style -NO ONE dresses up (except for the ultra rich) … Maybe – just maybe – the one who is celebrated. The hardest thing to get across to friends and family from Europe if they’re coming…

SEAMLESS

The poetry I gravitate to has no form and no rules. Rules and form take the poetry out of it, in my opinion. Rather than giving you my accolades, I very much like how Jennie, who did the Thurs. ABC before, described it as “seamless.” Most of the images in this post have a seamless…

BETWEEN BRICKS OR ROCKS

Placer County Courthouse in Auburn, CA This is a rebuild of the first courthouse, because it was destroyed by fire. This Renaissance style one on the hill was finished in 1898. Tue Treasure, Thurs. Doors Ever since I’ve gone over to an Apple laptop my archives have been messed up…

CELEBRITY -NOT WHAT YOU THINK

THE ONE WORD SUNDAY today is CELEBRITIES Oil, 24 x 24 inch, The Cotton Candy Rose, ©St Germain My first series in my paintings of the Celebrity Collection was totally unplanned. This title came since at that time I lived in the suburbs of Los Angeles and Hollywood was only an hour away….

UNEXPECTED VIEWS

Wretched A hutong in Beijing We accidentally stumbled on this third world side of China, when the toilet in our hotel room overflowed. It couldn’t be fixed at sundown. They suggested for us to go to the hutong in the alley to brush our teeth and go to the bathroom ( a community of houses…

THE MIRACLE OF GLASS

Chagall was an artist like Gaudi. Whatever material he used, it was to the fullest of its potential. Chagall stained glass windows in Nice, France was done in 1957. The 5th and 6th day of Creation. Motifs of Paradise. The great Tempter, bottom left, and above-on right the Tree of Knowledge. Chagall wanted an…

WEEKEND READING

LITERAL – looking for a book for this Sunday, oh yeah that one. But then I saw another one. Oh no, this one! Ended up with not know which to choose, so here they are, two of my rows of most of my cherished art books. A mix of biographies and how-to books. One Word…

ENJOYING THE PARK

SCROLL DOWN FOR THURSDAY DOORS The word “park” is used facetiously here. In the Los Angeles basin “parks” are not only for trees and lawns with flowers, but a beautiful set of buildings and shops with lots of landscaping but some locals also may call this a park. Part of the Irvine Spectrum (shops,…