Author: brenda

oak street plaza

Oak Street Plaza Park is a hardscape, cobblestone area with cafe tables and chairs where people are invited to enjoy a break from shopping and chat with their friends.

In the summer, children (as well as a dog or two) are fascinated with the water as it jumps from the sculpted “rocks’ or sprits in the air from the cobblestone.

oak street plaza

oak street plaza

weekly photo challenge: symbol

baseball…a slow game symbolizing long summer days is defined by journalist Roger Angell as an ageless sport in which “time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within each player moves at exactly the same pace and rhythm as their predecessors.”*

batter at the ready

batter at the ready

Inspired by Jen’s photo challenge: Symbol

*cited:

“Where have you gone William Bendix?: Baseball as a Symbol of American Values in World War II”

http://www.jstor.org/

monochrome madness 2-18

the rivers have

an ancient darkness…

cuckoo

~Issa*

big thompson

big thompson

You are invited to view other images at

Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness

cited:

http://www.haikuguy

countless dewdrops

all around me

countless dewdrops: what

might they portend-when

those which fall upon my sleeve

are tears…

                        ~The Monk Saigyo

dawn dew ll

dawn dew ll

this print and others are now available through Fine Art America

cited:

http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/

black & white sunday: local watering hole

 

The source of water for the residents of Fort Collins, CO comes from large areas of land that drain snowmelt and rainfall waters to the Upper Cache la Poudre River, Big Thompson River, and Horsetooth Reservoir. 

While walking around Horsetooth during this past winter, I was drawn to the composition of these elements of the shoreline… rocks, ice, water, and sky.  

Horsetooth Reservoir

Horsetooth Reservoir

Offered in response to Irene Water’s challenge as a guest at  Paula’s Lost in Translation

beyond what the eye can see

my old village lies

far beyond what the eye can see,

but there the lark is singing

                                                 ~Issa*

journey

this print is available through Turning  Art

*cited:

The Sound of Water

Trans. S Hamill