Actually, this should show before the painting was finished, but usually since the first image shows on the net, I chose to make this the second image. When I was younger, philosophy was important to me. Here, I show how I make sense of the process of how we then should live -the (God’s) hand connected to everything that happens on earth, and the multiple and intersecting arches were the actual beginning. The angels were added, and then moving from the unseen realm to the visible world, thirdly – the pillars of society. Here, all these ideas have already been added, but in plenty of cases, the ideas may come one after another, while I am working on it.
The general idea to get across is how a culture works and how the spheres of influence interact. They’re also called by some the mountains of society, but I prefer spheres of influence. since they are formed and changed by the interaction, while mountains are part of creation.
How PhotoAWeek perfectly fits in this post with posterity! Our family is not as big as Nadia’s, but bigger than many Dutch families, for we have 7 grand kids. Carene, 16 years old, (the 4th) and almost as tall as her mom who is 5’10” (1.78 meters). It seems there are more opportunities for funny situations to share. Even though this is not a conscious reason, but a very telling thing is that in first grade I invited ALL 28 kids from my class to my birthday party (to the chock of my dear mother).
Have already enough of winter. Sure hope for a looong Spring season!
A few rays of sun in a dark somber sky …. One Word Sun: weather., Sky Watch
Made this painting as a preparation for the usual summer art show in Laguna, California. To make it genuinely my experience, I chose three deer that had actually been on our property. It was a view of one of David’s songs “As a deer pants for the water, so my soul longs for You …”
When I brought it, the organizer made a surprized sound, for I usually do not paint animals. She looked around, then planted it on a low easel, plum in the middle of the room, saying “I just needed it there!”
This tree had a heavy loss with such a large branch missing. This is why it took a while before we cleaning it up our last winter in California. Makro-Tex: memories
One Word Sun, Sun. Best, Wordless Wed.
Found this link Festive Bonbon via Prior House blog, and thought it would be fun to participate.
Tree: live, and since it’s on a small table, it reaches the ceiling Christmas Carols: Immanuel, Hark, hear the Bells Books: The Red Shoes Movie: Forgot the title, but it’s about looking for a wife for the young Santa Fruitcake: I can do without:) Chocolate, nuts, fruit: Yes, in that order Traditions: Painting from the Christmas story each year, if not on Christmas day, then before January On the table: it depends on adult child’s or friends Family Memories: my family is 26 hrs. away or a plane trip across the ocean – thankful for friends Christmas Wish: that the expectancy of this time (without all the frills) would stay!
A detail of last year’s tree Der Natur Donnerstag
When Hubs was in the hospital a few years ago, I discovered that driving those hairpin corners while descending and ascending in the mountains for an hour between Pioneer and San Andreas were not too scary after all. Took this shot when I was NOT driving, lol. Travel Tue, Der Natur Donnerstag
FOTD, Wordless, Fri Floral Foto
A sunset in my window:) Weekend Reflection
Added this sky since my blog had difficulty with the previous linky. Don’t apologize Sky Watch host, all is good:)
This is what I love about the mountains. The sunsets are in winter just as fiery as in summer!
Two doors on this boat in Groningen, the North of Holland, close to where my brother lives. In the background house you also see 2 doors next to each other.
Thought the wall leading up to this door in Fredericksburg, Texas was more intriguing than the door itself. Fredericksburg is a town where Germans during the 1950ties settled. You may realize that this was right after World War II. It means not every German condoned what Hitler did. Many Germans at that time had no idea what he did to the Jews. Many streets and shops have German names. Many beer gardens:)
In my first year of marriage I lived in W-Berlin, because hubby started working there two years beforehand. Ratskeller is the (wine)cellar from the city hall. These are mostly built where a cellar would be, underground – as you can see where the fence is, above ground. In this time, ratskellers are most often restaurants.
These 12 visions began at at night and ended approx 3:15 am Had the feeling I had run a marathon.
The next day I avoided even allowing myself to think or pray, since I had much to chew on and even know how to process all these visions.
What I heard with this vision “My people will soar like the eagles, nest in the mountains discover hidden streams, find nourishment they will be a separate people full of hope and light.”
The significance was that during these visions, I lived in one of the suburbs of of Los Angeles with heavy traffic during the day in my street, leading up to South Coast Plaza There was nothing that I could have foreseen times of 2020 and 2021 with suppression of daily freedoms, rising inflation, and increase of suicide. Now I can see the need for these hidden places living in freedom of life and of choice.
Forgot which time of the year these bloomed FOTD, Fri Floral Foto
Tiny and cute Makro-Tex, Weekend Reflection, Sat Critters
A gateway does not need to look like an arch or fence – a gateway to the inland (Sutro Baths – San Francisco) PhotoAWeek
Did not grow up with eating salmon, but once I tried it, I was hooked PhotoAWeek
Flat land with some Fall colors (were I lived before, in California) One Word Sun, Der Natur Donnerstag