Happy First Day of Autumn
Autumn Landscape
Théodore Rousseauc. 1848-50
Happy First Day of Fall
Photographer Unknown
Merry Mabon To Everyone
Photographer Unknown
From Anita at Enduring Bones
Photographer Unknown
Happy Autumn Equinox!
art 2023
Apples
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
Summer Evening
Hashimoto Kansetsu1941
Golden autumn. Slobodka
Isaac Levitan1889
Evening Commute
WP Prompters asked: What are you doing this evening?
Well before I start my evening in Toilet Town I take the commuter train to get there and during that train ride I get to see depressing sights like these
-grit, grime, despair for miles and miles.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
April 17,2023
Washington State USA
At some point in my commute I will start to read, or listen to music and instead of looking out I will start to look in. That’s not such a bad thing to do as long as one comes up for air.
So this evening maybe I will study the portrait ” The Nightwatch ” by Rembrandt and instead of focusing on the grit and grime and disdain I have for Toilet Town.
The Nightwatch is a giant painting- it’s 12×14 Feet. It has has movement and drama and just to make sure you understand where to look for the drama, the main characters are well lit and the secondary characters are in the shade ( such is life, right? )
I love this painting because it’s about adventure and sometimes when you are feeling a little blah, it’s good to look for adventures and find a way to participate in one. Go on challenge yourself, where will you go the next time you feel like busting out for awhile?
The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn.
The Night Watch as it hung in the Trippenhuis in 1885, by August Jernberg
Night Watch Flash Mob- you read that right. The Muesuem staged a flash mob at a Mall AND IT WAS FANTASTIC.
Twilight Time
WP Daily Prompt: What’s your favorite time of day?
Winter Twilight – Mikhail Markianovich Germanshev
By definition Twilight is the time period between (astronomical) dawn and sunrise, or between sunset and (astronomical) dusk.
Twilight is my favorite time of the day because even though it is quiet and brief, it is full of drama.
In that brief moment you need to get to were ever it is you are going- either you are heading into a dream or a nightmare or you are heading out of one.
If you are heading into an attic, or a basement or back into a quiet grave it must be a relief to find a cool place to lay your head for a little while and dream about what the Sun rising over head must look like as it searches, in vain for your resting place.
I’ll bet you can’t help but to smile as snuggle down for a little rest and some peace and quiet.
If you are emerging from the night into the daylight it must feel so fine to know that the dreams that chased you in your sleep are as far away from you as the Sun that hangs in the sky above your head and warms the air around you as gently as seconds ticking away on a clock.
Twilight is my favorite time of the day because its the time of the day when nightmares and dreams are roaming free and they are there in plain sight for anyone to see.
Autumn Twilight (Henri Le Sidaner – )
Collins Street, evening
Clarice Beckett-1931
Ships at Anchor. Winter
Eugen1908