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Entries in single women (34)

Monday
Apr252016

single women # 34 ~ dreadlocks

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single woman ~ Les 4 Glaces rink - Brassard, Qc, CA • click to embiggen

Monday
Mar282016

single woman # 33 ~ things are getting strange

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single woman ~ Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

You know things are out of whack in the good ol' US of A when:

1) an old Jew and a Cuban can't win an election in Florida,

and,

2) when a candidate for a party nomination for the presidential election states that he will make America great again.

iMo, he will only be able to do so by outlawing shredded cheese cuz everything else he is proposing is unabashedly ludicrous.
Wednesday
Aug192015

single woman # 32 / tourist picture (single cat) ~ one of these things is not like the other

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diner and a screen ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen
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our cat, Edison-Ron, enjoys the view (iPhone picture) ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

Thursday
Jul162015

tourist picture (single woman?) / squares² # 9 ~ a poem of sorts

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the wife, going with the flow ~ Bog River Flow / Hitchens Pond - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
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on the Flow ~ Bog River Flow / Hitchens Pond - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

going with the flow

sitting, watching
listening
thought full / thoughtless
quiet contemplation

the eagle the osprey
dual / duel
startled
spruce grouse
erupt
into cacophonist flight

bass fighting
hook
line
and sinker

black fly, deer fly, mosquito
harass
disappear on the breeze
bad memories
best forgotten

hoot of the owl
cry of the loon
fish jump
coyotes howl at the moon
cries and whispers
haunt our dreams

on water’s edge

mated dragon flies
flit and careen
a procreative dance
finch
dart, chirp, scold
on a wing and a prayer

barefoot
pine needle carpet
on loamy soil
dodging the hard fact
of roots
weightless drifting with
life jacket floats

cool mist
on morning water
smudgy campfire smoke
coffee aroma
pancakes with blueberries
sausage and syrup

on Bog River Flow
Monday
Jun222015

single woman # 31 / civilized ku # 2915-16 - a (another) painted lady - in the nickel city

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single woman ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen
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hotel fountain in rain and fog ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen
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sailing themed hotel bar and restaurant ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen
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Hugo / rink parking garage mural ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen
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main rink ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen

We're back from the hockey tournament in Buffalo, nicknamed the Nickel City*. The tournament was held in a beautiful 2 rink facility. The rinks are located on the top (6th floor) of a parking garage.

Between games on Saturday, while Hugo and his dad (the Cinemascapist) visited Niagara Falls, I roamed around downtown Buffalo making some pictures. Those pictures will follow.

* for those non-US citizens, the American nickel (5 cent coin) has a Buffalo on its face.
Wednesday
Jun172015

single woman # 30 ~ painted lady

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single woman ~ Brooklyn, NY • click to embiggen

Tuesday
Apr212015

door # 23 / single women # 29 / picture window # 68 ~ recent additions

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Budweiser Blvd ~ Keeseville, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
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single woman ~ Utica, NY • click to embiggen
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office window ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen

Tuesday
Jun102014

triptych # 18 (civilized ku # 2740-42 / single women # 28) civilized ku # 2739 ~ Eleanor gets it

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Our Canadian hosts ~ Chaffey's Lock, Ontario / CA • click to embiggen
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breakfast remains ~ Chaffey's Lock, Ontario / CA • click to embiggen

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. ~ Paul Rand

While in Canada, the wife and I had the pleasure of meeting Raymond, Eleanor Pinsonneault and their dog, Foxy. They were our hosts in Chaffey's Lock where we stayed in the cottage behind their house. Eleanor and Raymond, advanced septuagenarians if not octogenarians, were very friendly, warm-hearted, and gracious. We felt quite comfortable and at home from the first to the last moments of our stay.

Eleanor is a rather accomplished artist who now works primarily on commission. And, if her website bio is current (I believe it is), she is also currently finishing a Fine Arts program at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, Ontario.

While we were her guests, I was amazed by her seemingly boundless energy - despite her age and physical limitations - as is evidenced in the picture of her garden tending (take note of the walker she uses to get about). Her work pace in her gardens is very slow but methodical. She does not appear to be able to bend down or squat but she just keeps plugging away.

All of that written, and more to the point of this entry, I showed Eleanor - on my iPad - a few of the pictures I had been making around the grounds of her house to include the breakfast remains picture in this entry. Her response to that picture (and others) was spot on the money, my picturing intent wise.

To wit: her first response was a delightful smile and a chuckle. The smile and chuckle were instigated by the depicted referents but that reaction was immediately followed by a statement to the effect of how the color and the arrangement of shapes and lines all came together to create rather "delightful" impression of such mundane subject matter. To write that I immeasurably pleased by that response from another artist is a vast understatement.

She gets it. She understands. And I can't explain the joy I felt to connect with another artist on that level.

All of that written, I must also write that I fell in love with Eleanor (to the wife, platonic wise). Her dignity, grace, artistic acumen, energy, and all around joie de vivre are an absolute inspiration and an outstanding example of a full life well lived. She will be forever in my memory. Although ....

.... I will be adding to that memory during our return trip to her Chaffey's Lock cottage next month (for my birthday). The retinue for that trip will be the wife, my son (the Cinemascapist), his the wife, Hugo, and hopefully my good friend from NYC. Should be fun and I hope to spend some time with Eleanor in her studio sharing art stuff.