February 24, 2018
This Blog has moved to a new location with a new name and a different format, now called "Present for Beauty" it can be found at:
https://presentforbeauty.blogspot.com/
Please visit and let me know what you think of the site.
Many thanks,
Bill Lagerstrom
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Saturday, October 14, 2017
October 13, 2017
October 13, 2017
All images are mine unless otherwise noted.
Al images come from photographs taken in the last two weeks.
To see photos full screen click on any image.
Autumn decided to arrive in full glory this last week and showed itself with brilliant color which I am told is due to the lack of water in this semi drought we have here in Maine. On Monday, Columbus day, it was raining pretty hard and the 'last weekend' people were heading home in a miles long string of cars going West on route 1A to "beat the traffic" as I was going East to Acadia. It was good to be going in the right direction. Thankfully, all those heading toward their busy lives were treated to a spectacular show of Fall color all the way to Bangor and hopefully beyond. God painted the trees beautifully everywhere I looked.
The first two photos are how Autumn is seen and enjoyed by everyone, stunning and wondrous. Perhaps the three images following are how trees and leaves see each other in this Season.
The next set of images were taken at the Colby College Museum of Art here in Maine. They are an interpretation of a new work recently hung.
All images are mine unless otherwise noted.
Al images come from photographs taken in the last two weeks.
To see photos full screen click on any image.
Autumn decided to arrive in full glory this last week and showed itself with brilliant color which I am told is due to the lack of water in this semi drought we have here in Maine. On Monday, Columbus day, it was raining pretty hard and the 'last weekend' people were heading home in a miles long string of cars going West on route 1A to "beat the traffic" as I was going East to Acadia. It was good to be going in the right direction. Thankfully, all those heading toward their busy lives were treated to a spectacular show of Fall color all the way to Bangor and hopefully beyond. God painted the trees beautifully everywhere I looked.
The first two photos are how Autumn is seen and enjoyed by everyone, stunning and wondrous. Perhaps the three images following are how trees and leaves see each other in this Season.
The next set of images were taken at the Colby College Museum of Art here in Maine. They are an interpretation of a new work recently hung.
Everything is connected,
perhaps by the "Net of Indra."
Every tree, every leaf, is part of a web
stretching the world round.
The leaves are sharing their joy
as they change into their Autumn dress.
The leaves are as full of wonder as are we
who look with new eyes at God's handiwork each October.
(See this site for an explanation of Indra's Net -
Each leaf in Autumn is perhaps
a muted explosion of color
never seen before,
always different to amaze
our eyes and our emotions.
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The following images were taken of a small work by Anish Kapoor, a sculptor who usually creates very large installations. They are an interpretation of an artist's work that I occasionally create photographically. The piece represented here is unnamed by the artist.
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A few odds and ends -
Lee called me out at dusk the other night to see the sky presented in a way we had never experienced before. This photo is as shot and with no enhancement in software.
Every Tuesday morning I meet with a group of friends to discuss spiritual matters in what was the stable on a two hundred year old farm belonging to a semi-retired Episcopal Priest who was also born and raised there. When weather does not permit we move indoors. This photo was taken from the seat I enjoy occupying while there. The cat below the cartoon lives on the farm and occasionally allows a brief petting as the mood to be touched arrives.
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Some humor:
"That's does not amuse me."
Peace, Bill Lagerstrom
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
8-16-2017
August 16, 2017
This week all images are mine.
To see photos full screen click on any image.
This post is a melange of photos I took in the past few weeks and is without any unifying theme.
It is written, "Wherever you go you can see the face of God."
Say to heck with the news cycles
then we can live happily in tiny houses
in a town called Freedom, Maine.
Not all clouds are political if we look at Nature first.
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The woods are deep and lovely
as is the Dharma, the teachings of Nature
leading to equanimity and inner peace.
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Lee and I were walking through the Jewish cemetery in Bangor and came across this tombstone lying on the ground offering a bed for an angel to rest.
The figure on close inspection appears to be old so I believe it was put there in 1913 and lies undisturbed all these years.
A rare political statement on this blog.
How do we get out of our compartmentalized self?
I found the door that opens to .............
What do you see?
The barest hint of the day arriving
was visible through the morning mists
as night was prepared to be put to bed
for another turning of the earth.
Community.
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Some humor,
How a cat sees composition prior to drawing an image
Peace, Bill Lagerstrom
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