Sunset at Montmajour by Vincent van Gogh, painted 1888, discovered in 2013 Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Netherlands and died 37 years later, in 1890 in France. Born to a minister father and an artist mother, he worked towards being a priest but then rejected the structure of the church. Instead…
Month: February 2020
#MM — Music Challenge — Let me get to the point
Jim Adams is the dependable host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [Tom Petty’s, “You Don’t Know How it Feels“] and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression. Reading through the lyrics, it strikes me that Tom is torn between allowing himself to feel…
Thursday Inspiration 44 — Love Potion #9
George, the love of my life, was a utility worker, climbing power poles 40-50 hours a week. Or at least he did until he was thrown from a 40-foot height by a power surge. Landing on the lawn, George’s body smoked from the electricity that put him into a coma. It had been six months….
Lake MI in Winter
I was out on a drive along Lake MI yesterday and stopped to take a few pictures. It was 19 degrees Farenheit with an arctic wind making it even colder. The sun was shining but it was anything but warm! I’m still in the process of trying to scale the pictures down, but GIMP saves…
#FF — Plugged in
PHOTO PROMPT © Dawn Miller “What do you think, Myrna?” Myrna sat hunched on the pastel green vinyl hospital rocker next to mother’s bed, her hand resting softly on the woven cotton blanket covering her mother’s inert foot. It had been six months on the respirator, with tube feedings, and no indicators of improvement. Doctors…
Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park — part 3 of 3 — inside gardens
Please note: I’ve changed the settings with this group of photos, where you can click the image link below each one and open it full size in a new window. There are different climate gardens at Meijer Gardens. The arid garden has many types of cacti and other desert plants. This one caught my eye…
What do you see? # 17 Camp Muk-a-luk-a-lee
Image Credit; Lisa Fotios- Pixabay When Jeremy was born, not only the nurses but the doctor remarked in the chart that he was suspected of having a condition called, hirsutism, which is a medical term for very hairy. At birth his “fur” was a fine blond fluff, but by the time he was a year…
Tao Talk 