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Photo Friday, No. 787

Current Photo Friday theme: Best of 2021

This is the second week of this theme to close out 2021. I’ve created several paintings using Spirograph and mandala flowers**, but this was the first, done for a friend’s birthday and personalized for her with song lyrics from a musician special to her.

If you know me, you know New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday. Still, 2021 has been a hard year for many of us, so I have hope 2022 will bring better days. Happy New Year to you all!

**Some of those flowers are used in my new banner.

Photo Friday, No. 786

Current Photo Friday theme: Best of 2021

Is this iPhone photo technically the best photo I shot this year? Probably not. But after quarantining separately in the same city for 16 months, seeing The Brides walk up with Pepper to share hugs, dinner, Starbucks, and the precious gift of safe, vaccinated time together makes this my top photo of 2021.

Photo Friday, No. 785

Current Photo Friday theme: Dream


It’s a process: Sheep, Sleep, Dream, Wake, Analyze.

Our own dreams fascinate us when we remember them. We pick them apart and ascribe meanings to them. They may help us understand our feelings about what occupies our waking lives. They may even help us find solutions and directions. Sometimes they bring laughter; other times, comfort.

Pro Tip: Beware of ever telling anyone you interpret dreams. They will hunt you down and describe their dreams in minute detail and ask for you to explain it all. You probably won’t have even had coffee yet. You won’t have a clue what their dreams mean. You won’t care. You have cracked the code: Other people’s dreams do not fascinate you at all.

Photo Friday, No. 782

Current Photo Friday theme: Journey


Angel of the Waters, New York City, 2007

From the Internet: The Angel of the Waters statue atop the Bethesda Fountain is the 1860s masterpiece of lesbian sculptor Emma Stebbins and was the earliest public artwork by a woman in New York City. In Tony Kushner’s AIDS-themed play Angels in America, the statue formed the backdrop of the final scene of the “Perestroika” section.

The angel blessing the waters commemorates the system that first brought fresh water to New York City in 1842.

For all the above reasons–literature, art, and cultural history and representation–the fountain symbolizes healing, hope, and optimism to me. Manhattan, I will see you, Central Park, and Bethesda Fountain again one day.

Photo Friday, No. 781

Current Photo Friday theme: Sacred

A random collection of items from throughout my home, these aren’t all the cultural objects that are at Houndstooth Hall. They symbolize: birth, death, sacrifice, worship, religion, nature, animal totems, angels, magic, myth, music, art, the cosmos.

Many of them, along with those not pictured, represent what I hold most sacred: their givers, who have been my friends and family throughout my life.

Photo Friday, No. 778

Current Photo Friday theme: Obsession

Every other obsession I have can be traced to words and how they become story. All art and photography, all that I read, dogs, dolls, music, people, nature, places, things. I process or frame everything my senses experience with story. This has been true as long as I can remember, so how could I have become anything other than a writer?