Thursday, May 29, 2025

Two Homes?

 I often drive by this yellow building, maybe a residence, and I’m curious about it. It seems out of place where it is, and probably because of the color, it seems a tad French. The picture of the lovely home with the wisteria in front was taken in the colorful month of April, when Wilmington and many other places  are at their showiest. 


Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Monday, May 26, 2025

Painting

Because I must have something “to sink my teeth into” during the next decade, I must paint. My art friends enjoy plein air, being outside and painting what they see in front of them. Others paint from photos that they have taken. Some artists painfully reproduce the subject and others give artistic license to their paintings. I wish I could do either and am trying, but I can’t help but stray. Though I am moving into oils, yesterday I felt the lure of acrylics that I attempted to tame in recent years. The process has been: I paint on the canvas. Then I evaluate. Then I cover it with another layer of paint and then another. Eventually most canvasses end up in the garbage. I may keep these. The paints in both were three blues, a white, and a deep yellow, and the canvasses were well textured! I don’t plan. A frenzy overtakes me, and in a few minutes, something satisfying emerges. The rectangle I have named Into the swamp. The square one is Along the Trail. A name helps the viewer make sense of a painting. The iPhone is not exact in representing color  





Sunday, May 25, 2025

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Beautiful Church

Driving today on a country road and spotted a gold dome atop a lovely well preserved little church. On the way back, I was fortunate to stop and get a pic or two. Russian Orthodox. Right in the middle of corn fields and farm lands!




Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

May begins tomorrow.

For the past few years, I returned to blogging to post a picture each day in May. It was for my own discipline since I know no one follows. Works for me!

I was spending a few minutes thinking of doing it. But every May the same thing! Hydrangeas or any of the other pretty blooming flowers. Shore birds, ocean waves or shells when I finally get back down to the beach. Enough of that! This is my twelfth year in Wilmington, and I am used to all the sights. Ho hum. 

I had really given up on photography, almost. I realized a camera really did make a difference, and my good pocket cameras were gone. Less than a year ago, I bought a new iPhone and determined that it would be my camera. After all, that is what everyone else does, except for the photographers with the huge cameras who get such great shots that it practically ruins it for us hacks. But this week, I "discovered" a feature on the camera of my phone that made me happy. And I have started taking pix with enthusiasm. 

This year, using my phone, I will probably still take some pretty seasonal shots, but I will either make the B/W or arty. That's my goal. But for today since it is still April, some colorful ones.  . . .  Oh dear.  Looks like I can’t do it.