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Clouds: The Painted Sky

Clouds: The Painted Sky

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on September 13, 2015 at 10:08 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Clouds, Color, Hue, light, Los Angeles, Nature, Santa Monica, sky, Southern California, sunset, Sunsets, Trees

Siting Santa Monica: Ocean to Beach

Siting Santa Monica: Ocean to Beach

There is a magical walkway between Street and Santa Monica Beach.

On Ocean…beguiling architecture can be seen…

complete with detail of tile, brick and terracotta.

To the side..wooden shutters and pattern upon pattern,

giving new meaning to “white picket fence”.

As one moves down the walkway from Ocean to beach….one sees more layers, of pattern and material, plants and metal. Santa Monica knows from gates…weathered, imposing, architectural, artsy.

At the bottom of the walkway, is another magnificent building that manages to combine quaintness and stateliness.

More texture. This side faces the beach.

Heading back up the walkway, towards Ocean Street again, one passes more brick, banked with foliage and flowers.

Palms, succulents, flowering plants and a mix of materials soften the concrete.

The walkway weaves its magic…feeling for all the world like a picturesque country lane…

Albeit one with some interesting signs, which betray its origins in the world’s entertainment capitol.

More gates, and a visual archway created.

These could be the gates to an Tuscan Villa, if one didn’t see the Pacific Ocean to the right, directly West.

True to ever artful Santa Monica, brick pattern and mosaic design add just enough visual interest to a garden wall to arrest and entice.

It is no accident that the mosaic design leads our eye to the gate, and what lays behind it.

I turn, to take in the Western view…from where I walked,than back Eastward, to Ocean, where I am walking to.

For now.

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on May 27, 2015 at 7:02 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Architecture, Artful, artistry, Beach, Brick, Entertainment capitol, Foliage, Gates, layers, Los Angeles, Ocean, Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, Shutters, SoCal, Southern California, Stairs, Starwyas, Steps, Terracotta, texture, Tile, White picket fence

Sky Paintings 11: Sky Hue

Sky Paintings 11: Sky Hue

A bit of color to usher in the New Year. May the hues of 2015 be glorious, delicate, and everything in-between.

I have included some of my favorites. I hope they are yours too!

Cheers.

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on January 7, 2015 at 8:11 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: City of Angels, Cloud, cloud and sky, Cloud Color, Clouds, Color, Heavenly Skies, LA, light, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Skies and Clouds, sky, Sky Painting, Southern California, Sunlight, sunset, Sunset-touched Clouds, Watercolor

Sky Paintings 10: Cloud Cover

Sky Paintings 10: Cloud Cover

I am creating a series of “picture poem” posts…sections of my “Sky Paintings”, which I have been sharing on Facebook.

My Mom does not “do” Facebook…so I am putting this series together for her to be able to see the Sky Paintings. Here’s to you, Mom…enjoy.

Grey cloud cover…breaking to a distant blue with white cloud

Cloud cover breaking, blue sky beyond

Rolling through the heavens

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on December 30, 2014 at 3:57 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: City of Angels, Cloud, Cloud Color, Cloud Cover, Clouds, Color, Heavenly, Heavenly Skies, Heavens, light, Los Angeles, Palm Tree, Skies and Clouds, Sky Painting, Southern California, Sun and Cloud

Sky Paintings 9: Puffy Whites

Sky Paintings 9: Puffy Whites

I am creating a series of “picture poem” posts…sections of my “Sky Paintings”, which I have been sharing on Facebook.

My Mom does not “do” Facebook…so I am putting this series together for her to be able to see the Sky Paintings. Here’s to you, Mom…enjoy.

Have a little sky with your clouds….

Have a little cloud with your sky….

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on December 30, 2014 at 3:41 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Awesome Skies, Back-lit\, Backlit, Blue Skies, Blue Sky, City of Angels, Cloud, cloud and sky, Cloud Color, Clouds, Color, Heavenly, Heavens, light, Los Angeles, Palm Tree, Palms, Puffy Clouds, Puffy White Clouds, Skies and Clouds, Sky Painting, Southern California, Sun and Cloud, Sunlight

Sky Paintings 8: Wild Cloud

Sky Paintings 8: Wild Cloud

I am creating a series of “picture poem” posts…sections of my “Sky Paintings”, which I have been sharing on Facebook.

My Mom does not “do” Facebook…so I am putting this series together for her to be able to see the Sky Paintings. Here’s to you, Mom…enjoy.

Winter rains in the Los Angeles area have redrawn the skies…into fantastical patterns of white and blue…cloud and sky and light…here’s to the heavenly skies of the City of Angels.

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on December 22, 2014 at 9:07 pm Comments (3)
Tags: Awesome Skies, Back-lit\, Backlit, City of Angels, Cloud, cloud and sky, Cloud Color, Clouds, Color, Heavenly, Heavens, light, Los Angeles, Skies and Clouds, Sky Painting, Southern California, Sun and Cloud, Sunlight, Wild Clouds

Sky Paintings 7: Glendora Fire 2014

I am creating a series of “picture poem” posts…sections of my “Sky Paintings”, which I have been sharing on Facebook.

My Mom does not “do” Facebook…so I am putting this series together for her to be able to see the Sky Paintings. Here’s to you, Mom…enjoy.

Sky Paintings 7: Glendora Fire 2014

The sky became very eerie. I was teaching in Lawndale that morning, and marveled at the other-worldliness of this strange “back-lit” sky which seemed to be hanging low under heavy yellowish clouds…with the glowing disc of the sun shining through.