always, when facing an obstacle or impasse, start by discarding the superfluous... 

design by elimination...

recharge station for fireflies...

"so, what are you doing this week-end?"

"maybe picnic leftovers, or the landfill...there's a flock of us headed over there."

pool party...

even goddesses do laundry...what did you think the big dipper was, decoration?

these are just the socks, and the onesies...

truck graveyard...

instability...

falling...

I've been given a creative blogger award from angie, in australia. thank you!

yanchep angie 

click title above to visit her, and below for photos of australia. yanchep appears to be an australian beach town, near a well-known national park. i've provided a link below that features one couple's visit: 

yanchep national park

i've been directed to pass this on to five blogs, but i would like you, the reader, to click on five links or followers that i have listed to the left of my page...so many imaginative and inventive blogs that i cannot narrow my favorites to five.

magazine ad, marker experiment, textiles...

textures and patterns, inspiration notebook...

rainy day colors, inspiration notebook...

memorial day

honored with flowers and grief, 

as glory fades, 

we return by deliberate fire or passive time, 

to soot and ashes and moth wings' dust...

seedlings, joined at the hip...

Segways® for seedlings...

uprooted, but managing to survive...

here's the church, and here's the steeple, open the door, and here's the people...

peeking through shutters...

a fabric sandwich...

no heirs...the silent generation.

http://www.abmc.gov

american battle monuments commission, with links to the american cemetery in normandy, and many others...

obi(sash), representing the nine decades of a fortunate life, and the mandatory rafts...

pocket protector, for tattoo artists...

it's still raining...

Houston, we have rain...

i walked barefoot in the rain...

rain, rain, rain...

shadow one...

shadow two...

shadow three...

the roar of engines, silenced...

carbon footprints, mega-type...

wheelie tracks...

stanley william hayter

oiseau de feu, 1935

this artist's work was the hidden treasure discovered during my visit to the british museum. while browsing in a second-hand bookstore in florida, i found this out-of-print catalogue which featured his work:

avant-garde british printmaking 1914-1960

frances carey and antony griffiths

christopher richard wynne nevinson

the road from arras to bapaume, 1918, lithograph

featured in a catalogue: avant-garde british printmaking 1914-1960

frances carey and antony griffiths

eduardo paolozzi, artist

man's head, lithograph, 1952

featured in a catalogue: avant-garde british printmaking 1914-1960

frances carey and antony griffiths

triangles, too...

rain of jewels...

triangles...

islands...

antennae...

graduation gift...

fragments, and missing the message...

simple, vibrant graphics...

flowers...

signs of boredom...

river markings...

inspiration, for beaded necklaces...

happy mothers day...