Monday's Quotes

 

Lives of great men all remind us,
we can make our lives sublime,
and departing,
leave behind us,
foot prints on the sands of time.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Haiku my Cow

 

The cows do gather
Surrounded by a grass field
Trees protect from rain.
~m.miller

Loved visiting this farm once upon a time.
Another form of poetry, haiku.
One I am just learning about and intrigued by.

The Art of Poetry

 

With my love of words I ventured out just yesterday to a poetry reading.
The poet loves nature and all it's beauty, but I took notice
of a small book about China.
A few excerpts by Tom Crawford, http://www.tomcrawfordpoetry.com/poems/

"From the wooden stool I watch him 
pound down the dough
then roll it out, sprinkle in chives,
Sichuan peppers, fold it over,
roll it out again.
Now he takes a black kettle from the stove
and offers me green tea.  Together
we sip from our cups and share
a hot shao bin he's torn in half."

Han
"We have come here to be stalled
by our own green hearts, waylayed
by what's past, the way in crosshatched
and slow as the oldest painting,
the black buffalo small against the mountain
still pulls the whole country along
on a single plow
one hoof at a time.

As a young girl I thought all poetry had to rhyme.
Fascinated recently by poetry, I have come to appreciate many styles.
 I find writing and poetry are another form of art.

The Art of Glass

 

 

 

 

 

When heat combines with raw material such as silica glass beauty appears.
Sometimes in life we need the heat to mold us into what we become.
A beautiful piece of art. 

I am in love with that pumpkin with its twists and turns.
Are you experiencing heat, twists and turns in your life?
They will mold you into something beautiful.

Photos taken at a glass studio in Lincoln City, Oregon

The Art of Nature

 

The art of nature just takes my breathe away.
The color
The form
The size, both large and small
Our creator was smiling when creating nature to surround us humans.
The life and sights of the sea always thrill me.

When you are out and about what touches your heart in nature?

Monday's Quotes

 

In all things of nature
there is something of the marvelous.
~Aristotle

In the Potter's Hands

The tea bowl was started with a lump of clay.

And shaped in the potter's hands.

Glazed.

Some trimming and shaping was needed to create the bottom of the bowl.

This is a face of DELIGHT

Just out of the kiln it glowed bright red.

Cooled in a tub of water.

Happiness!

In the potter's hands, the finished tea bowl.

Preparing the matcha tea for the first sip.

Sipping with JOY.

The finished bowl.

The potter is Richard Brandt, a pottery teacher from Portland, Oregon.
It was delightful to just watch his expressions and love as he made this very special tea bowl.
This particular art is Raku ceramics.
The tea bowl is traditional Japanese.

Happy weekend, dear friends!