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Entries in single women (34)
single woman # 33 ~ things are getting strange


single woman ~ Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
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.single woman # 32 / tourist picture (single cat) ~ one of these things is not like the other

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

the wife, going with the flow ~ Bog River Flow / Hitchens Pond - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
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
single woman # 31 / civilized ku # 2915-16 - a (another) painted lady - in the nickel city


single woman ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen

hotel fountain in rain and fog ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen

sailing themed hotel bar and restaurant ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen

Hugo / rink parking garage mural ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen

main rink ~ Buffalo, NY • click to embiggen
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.door # 23 / single women # 29 / picture window # 68 ~ recent additions

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

Our Canadian hosts ~ Chaffey's Lock, Ontario / CA • click to embiggen
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.
Mark Hobson - Physically, Emotionally and Intellectually Engaged Since 1947