Rachel - Treeflections

Reflections on the water - They're trees, and yet not trees.

Rachel - Small Things

Rachel - Curves and Color

Rachel - Watercolor

Where there is light, color and water, there is magic.  Alone, each falls flat, but combined they are delicious.  Whether ocean, rain, fountain, puddle, lake, fog or lowly goblet I find these combined elements enchanting.  Here is my watercolor.

Rachel - Neon Bloom

I took a photo of this weedy little bloom a while back, but was sorely disappointed that the focus was off.  I still loved the shapes and feel of the image, so I decided to work with it and give it a totally different look.  I like how it turned out.

Rachel - My Tree in Winter

I love my tree.  Each of its seasons are beautiful in their own way, from the first tender green buds in spring, through the verdant canopy of shade in summer and all the way until the final leaf falls, laying bare the vein-like branches in winter.

Rachel - Tender Beginning

Here are my beautiful niece and her husband on their wedding day.  They are so in love, and so tender together.  I wish then a lifetime of tenderness and care.

Rachel - Look on the Sunny Side

I had all kinds of difficulty with uploading tonight.  If point of fact, I had to scrap my original image because ît would not upload.  So, I moved on, looking at the sunny side (and at what I would be able to do on my phone).

Rachel - A Marvelous Bird

Growing up my grandfather regaled me with many witticisms, pithy poems and tall tales; one of my favorites was a limerick about that marvelous bird, the pelican.  After my grandpa's death in 2009 at age 96 I researched and found that it was written by Dixon Lanier Merritt, but for me it will always be my grandpa's poem.

Oh, you wanted the poem?  Here it is:

A marvelous bird is the pelican,

its beak can hold more than its belican,

it can hold in its beak enough for a week,

what a marvelous bird is the pelican.

Rachel - Look Up

Sometimes I get so busy that I buzz from place to place, looking at the ground, focusing only on the destination.  One thing I like about our Daily Art blog is that I get into the habit of looking for opportune subjects everywhere I go.  In that way I become more present.  Today as I was rushing to a meeting I took a moment to look up and I found light, lines, curves and color.  I stopped and took some photos, and answered a few folks inquiries about what I was doing.  Here is what I found when I took the moment from my day to look up.

Rachel - Fort Point Stairs

What is it about spiral staircases that I find so intriguing?  Is it the way the experience of climbing changes based on whether you choose to walk closest to the wall or the center?  Is it that you never quite know what's around the bend?  I don't know... but I like them!  I can't quite figure out where to go with this image.  I've tried it in black and white, with lowered and then with raised contrast, nothing quite satisfies me.  Just like the stairs themselves I won't see the end until I get there.

Water's Edge by Rachel

I am consistently awed by the power and beauty of water: It can be gentle and cleansing, or it can carve its way through the hardest mountains of stone.  The dance of water and light never fails to captivate me, and I find peace in watching the ever changing and ephemeral patterns created by the tides at water's edge.