Abstraction

I am thrilled with your very nice compliment. Thank you.

You will definitely see more from me, because I am up to something, but I may be done with abstraction for the moment. Maybe not. It’s March – you just never know. As for material, I have enough to construct an entire circus tent. The question is whether I can learn how to sew.

Thank you Carsten. Everyone is full of surprises tonight. This morning. Whatever it is. (I must never, never drink coffee in the evening again, not ever.) I was going to make it a six-slide show but I couldn’t make the colors come out right for the other two.

You are entirely welcome, Carsten. You took that tiny grain of inspiration and turned it into a Meditation Station.

Each to her own job.

Thank you.

I’m glad you like it, Scott. Not cornstalks . . . (serene little smile)

Is everyone up at this hour? I was just about to go to bed.

Thank you Scott. Have a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed sort of morning.

The grasses are on the beach, where the wind blows the snow around, sometimes making deep drifts right next to bare stretches of sand. The photo was taken last Thursday (March 1) when there was not so much snow. These are tough grasses for all their slenderness. They spin themselves into a topknot and trace a perfect circle in the snow around their tussock.

You have a good eye.

Thank you. Steal away. The more the merrier. Part of the fun of looking at other people’s work is getting ideas that you then turn around and execute differently. Then those people come to see your work and go away with new ideas . . . and so on. Creativity is seven parts hard work and one part playing pool – or maybe pinball – with all those shiny balls.

Thank you. The nickname is just a natural, isn’t it? (For people who don’t know what we’re talking about, Scott’s blog URL is stphoto.wordpress.com, for Scott Thomas Photography.)

Well thank you. You would have loved the other two slides I wanted to make. The ones I couldn’t get to color properly.

Thank you Martha. I like them too. I like the way the wind flows over them, and the way they shine in the sun.

So what are you saying, P.J. – you and I are just Material Girls? Cool.

I thought there was a certain eerieness to them. Of course, I am often fanciful. I had never heard of the Scarecrow until you made this comment. Now I’ve been off finding out about him. Astonishing. There’s a long tradition of masked champions of the poor. A subject worth pondering.

Thank you. Everyone is having a lot of fun with this one.

Thank you, Robin. It was fun horsing around with this.

Thank you Isa and welcome back to Torch Lake. We all had a wonderful time playing with the abstract photography assignment.

Thank you Truels. I like the way you describe them.

Thank you Tracy. Sometimes a little playtime is just what a person needs.