WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge- A Scale of Distances

I enjoy putting my own take on the photo theme & not taking the prompt in the immediate literal sense.  This photo is about scale but in the realm of comparisons of near and far.  As I walked the Camino de Santiago with a friend in 2013, we came upon these signs sometime after Pamplona.  We were most concerned with Santiago, 220 km away but still way closer than Jerusalem at 5000 km!

Camino signs
Scale

Weekly Photo Challenge- Finding Satisfaction Turning Trash to Treasure

One of the most satisfying pastimes for me as an artist is combining cast off  items and putting them together into something beautiful…….

Shovel owl
Double shovel owl with fork feet
Bathroom Goddes
Goddess of scrap metal
Sandstone collage 1
Sandstone collage with barbed wire.
Welded pony
Pony jumping  over nail fence

Satisfaction

Weekly Photo Challenge- the Unusual World of Air Plants

Baylii smoosh vase 2They are the nonconformists of the plant world.  You will find these epiphytes growing in the top of trees and bushes in tropical/subtropical climates such as the SE USA, Mexico, Central & South America & SE Asia.  They shun growing in soil, preferring a good view from above.  Nutrients are hedgehog rightabsorbed from water & air through special structures on their leaves called trichomes.  I love their quirky shapes & personalities to the point I made a business of selling them and unusual holders on Etsy

They make great “housepets”

Unusual

Weekly Photo Challenge- Collage

How convenient….I actually work in collage as an art form- most in combination with monotype.  Here is a collage of some of my collages.

Migration 1
Migration 1
Goat collage
Got Your Goat
Cascadia
Cascadia
Birch Forest
Birch Forest
Wild heart
Wild Heart

Collage

Weekly Photo Challenge- Wandering Through the Tulips

Every spring these tulip fields at the Wooden shoe Tulip Farm explode with color, a welcome end to a dreary winter. I am lucky I don’t have to wander far in Oregon to experience such beauty.

Tulips & tractorTulips closeup pinkTulips closeup red

 

 

 

 

tulips 4
Wanderlust

Weekly Photo Challenge- It’s Easy to be Green in Oregon…

Garden Frog
Tree frog in my garden
McKenzie R. Maiden Hair ferns
Along the McKenzie River Trail
Lower silver Falls
South Falls, Silver Falls State Park

It IS Easy Being Green!