What are they looking at?

This is the gate on the studio door. I have no idea what all of them are watching on the other side but they are certainly interested in it..

A Photo a Week Challenge: View from My Front Porch

This is actually the view from my Parents" front porch where I sort of grew up.  I took it from an old "real" photograph and cropped it and changed it to sepia...

and this is the view from my front window now.. I don't have a porch or even outdoor access, so it was taken through my living room window..

When the bridge was lighted for President's day

It is REALLY cold this morning

Three of us opted for living room warmth

while one of us loves his own special box even if it IS really cold.

The orchids I saved from the trash

several years ago are really putting on a show this year.  Even with all the snow and the awesome cold and the wind blowing through the windows, this one has bloomed on two stalks for the past 5 MONTHS!!!!!

This photo was from September 4 of 2014  you can see the green trees still behind the orchid...

and these are from yesterday, snow and all....

it looks like it is good for a while yet!

This one hasn't been blooming quite as long,,,, only about 3 months, but still going.

My orchids shed some leaves

and I got to playing with them. so I stamped and wrote on one of each kind to see how age affects this..
Here's how they looked the day I did it.  I'll follow this up when/if they change in an interesting way.

there is SO little light lately!!!

This was, I swear, the next to last day there was light out there....
I love the way those jade plants I rescued from the building trash room have grown,  Jade is such a gorgeous thing...

No box stays empty for long around here...

some of you may recognize this as a "source"

I have been teaching my friend Maddie to knit

She finished a baby hat, but models were rather thin on the ground in my apartment. 

18th Street near 6th Avenus

This place corners the market on unusual appliances and shows them off every day.  I know I have shown their display before but I loved today's version.

sometimes serendipity is fun....

I have a Vermeer Calendar on my studio desk under some glass and I had, at some point, stuck some figures I had cut out to use as silhouettes in GelliPlate printing... they have been there a while, as I destructed my created gelliplate and have not made another.... but yesterday I looked at them....

Visitors had arrived at the Vermeer house...

little journals ...

Over on what I call the "Big Blog" I have some pondering on journals and what I am doing right now, but here I wanted to show something else that I have done in some journals.

In a moment of madness I looked at a spice bottle that I was using to add spice to something I was making.  Expiration date 2006!!!  I looked at some others. They were more recent, but out of date nonetheless.  So $150 later I had replaced most everything in my spice drawer.

Everyone who knows me (see the Big Blog for more) knows how hard it is for me to throw things away, so I rounded up the most likely suspects and made pastes that I smeared on journal pages....

The look really great, don't they?  I think they could be used this way with some gel medium on them, however, 

after sitting 24 hours and then being rinsed,  there are still some interesting colors on those pages.  No mordant used, so who knows what will happen to them next, but some of these oldiesI bagged up and kept when the new ones came in.  

When I slide over the edge, someone is going to find those plastic bags of million year old spices and wonder exactly WHAT I was thinking. Right??

Tonight's moon over the George Washington Bridge

I have been on a labeling kick

I think he is tired of the snow also

This poor fellow is in some of the deepest snow he has been sitting in and the ball is just sitting there teasing him.  He is not going to be playing any time soon.  That snow is not light fluffy snow, it is solid ice and it is 27 degrees out so it will be frozen solid for a while.  I hope he is good at meditation.

Saul Leiter died recently

He was one of those people whose photos I return to again and again.... he was also a big influence.

Welcome to 2014.  I am just getting here myself.  I guess I took an unannounced break there at the end of 2013, so I didn't get to show you this.....

Here was Macy's main floor over the Holidays.  They did a really nice job this year, sometimes they get a bit over the top, but this year it was excellent.

OK, no big promises but I am trying to make a comeback of sorts here and over on the 'main' blog..
hope to see you all again soon..s

I doubt it is the real thing

 

Let's see.....

Which came first, the handicapped sign or that enormous tongue that HAS to be a handicap of some sort, right?

 

Subways are for Sleeping, Even if you are gold...

 

Orchids again

I love them when they are in bloom, and they are just as interesting to me when they are drying out on my table.  Ballerina skirts are what these look like to me