Now, I know this isn't the best shot, artistically, but look at those little trumpet shaped flowers. Aren't they just hollering to become jewelry forms? Love, Ruth
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Dear Ruth,
Looks like the fairies were playing hairy ball again.
I take back my comments about the hairy ball. It just had a look to me of how kids leave their balls outside and they get buried in snow and you find them in the spring, unrecognizable. I used to think a lot about the fairies and their lives when I was around 10. It was a way to make the unexplainable reasonable again. The possibility that dolls came alive while we were sleeping made as much sense as santa and the easter bunny, so why not?
Once when Nema was a toddler she dropped her dolly in the front yard and we didn't find it till spring ( I think Misty may have had something to do with where the dolly ended up ) and there dolly was, with her saran wrap hair sticking up all fried and wonky--- rather like her skin had just grown out and spored--- and she never did have hair that you could comb after that.
I think this moss' blooms would make lovely jewelry! There is so much beauty that happens when we aren't paying any attention at all.
Dear Mom, to be perfectly honest, I wasn't paying much attention! I was still floored by the visual of the entire tree eaten by worms, with its entire length of bark laying next to it with the other half of the texture, and I was really just playing around with my new christmas point and shoot. i didn't see those trumpets until i zoomed in to see what was in focus. whoa! i thought. those are cool. sometimes you have to look at something from an entirely different viewpoint to see properly. love ruth
Exactly. That's how I discovered the crabapple had ruffled skin. I can't see close up without my glasses, so didn't even catch the surface texture until I saw it on the computer screen!
But surprises are nice.... and addictive. I keep on taking pictures because I never know what I'll REALLY see.
What I think we need to explore are the different blossom shapes of sporing moss. I know that's not what you call it, but you know what I mean. They seem to have such different shapes when they stand up and shoot their spores around.
And yeah, your maggoty bark was awesome, both concave and convex versions. Natures textures can be so three-dimensional even when they are only impressions left behind.
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Dear Ruth,
Looks like the fairies were playing hairy ball again.
Love, mom xoxoxo
ps. good shot.
Dear Ruth,
I take back my comments about the hairy ball. It just had a look to me of how kids leave their balls outside and they get buried in snow and you find them in the spring, unrecognizable. I used to think a lot about the fairies and their lives when I was around 10. It was a way to make the unexplainable reasonable again. The possibility that dolls came alive while we were sleeping made as much sense as santa and the easter bunny, so why not?
Once when Nema was a toddler she dropped her dolly in the front yard and we didn't find it till spring ( I think Misty may have had something to do with where the dolly ended up ) and there dolly was, with her saran wrap hair sticking up all fried and wonky--- rather like her skin had just grown out and spored--- and she never did have hair that you could comb after that.
I think this moss' blooms would make lovely jewelry! There is so much beauty that happens when we aren't paying any attention at all.
You, of course, are paying attention.
Love, mom xoxoxo
Dear Mom,
to be perfectly honest, I wasn't paying much attention! I was still floored by the visual of the entire tree eaten by worms, with its entire length of bark laying next to it with the other half of the texture, and I was really just playing around with my new christmas point and shoot. i didn't see those trumpets until i zoomed in to see what was in focus. whoa! i thought. those are cool. sometimes you have to look at something from an entirely different viewpoint to see properly.
love ruth
Dear Ruth,
Exactly. That's how I discovered the crabapple had ruffled skin. I can't see close up without my glasses, so didn't even catch the surface texture until I saw it on the computer screen!
But surprises are nice.... and addictive. I keep on taking pictures because I never know what I'll REALLY see.
What I think we need to explore are the different blossom shapes of sporing moss. I know that's not what you call it, but you know what I mean. They seem to have such different shapes when they stand up and shoot their spores around.
And yeah, your maggoty bark was awesome, both concave and convex versions. Natures textures can be so three-dimensional even when they are only impressions left behind.
Love, mom
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