FLOWER BED

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci 

A picture I did at the Cambria Valley Inn a few years ago.  I remember I was sick as a dog when I took this but after a afternoon nap I ventured out and found this garden.  I tried making it into a painting using Photoshop and Corel Painter. I like the result.  I'm thinking a 20x30 someday.


When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats 

FIELD OF DREAMS

Terence Mann: Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. 

 FIELD OF DREAMS 1989

TEE IT UP

Summer time means it's time to dust off the sticks and head out to the links for reasons unknown.

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast.  If God wants to play through, let him.  ~Bob Hope



Maybe I should concentrate on my ping pong skills.  Happy July.


Cheers

BO

Cats motto: No matter what you did wrong,  always make it look like the dog did it.

PRAY

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things.
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

— Amelia Earhart

EISENSTADT

A photo taken by my friend Cary, the couple wanted to mimmic the famous photo by Alfred Eisenstadt of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in celebration of the end of WWII. The original was a cover for LIFE Magazine.

The Original by Eisenstadt.

The mimmic image by Cary.

My handy work in Photoshop.

And as always I can never leave well enough alone.  I did a total rip off of the original cover.  Photo, type and all(even the actual date of the original photo) of LIFE Magazine.  Only in the age of digital could this be possible.  Always question everything you see...and hear for that matter!

All original rights belong to Alfred Eisenstadt...God  bless him for leaving all of us with a body of amazing and historical work.

VINEYARD COMPILATION

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson 


Cheers.