Tracey in Maine

Ingredients

3 leaves

stone pebbles

water

sunlight

Mix and photograph to your heart’s content.  Add dash of imagination to taste.  Who knows?  You might see dragon’s eggs, bright shining eyes, and flowing cityscapes.

While doing some very late spring cleaning, I came across two butterflies I created a few years ago.  At the time I think I was at a multi-pronged fork in the road.  As my mind mulled over next steps, I needed to keep my hands busy.  This is what I produced.

I once wrote a short story that had so many different shades of blue sprinkled throughout that an editor wrote to ask, “Cynthia, do you think you can insert one more shade of blue?”

Now, she may have been kidding, but I can be slow about things like that.  So I went online to a site (probably Pantone) and after careful consideration decided that the sea in my story would be cerulean.  She accepted it.

Growing up in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, it is hard not to love blue.  Plenty of blues in New England of course but …

… I look forward to visiting the mountains of my childhood, and seeing if I can capture with my camera the beauty I remember in my dreams.  You know I’ll be sure to share.  😉

it grew even more beautiful

its original greens and pinks (seen here) deepening into many shades of gold.

Only moments before the bag had held zucchini or scallions perhaps.  Now it lay crumpled on the table fodder for my imagination as sunlight filled its cavities.

At first I thought of folds of cloth and crinkled skirts like women wore so long ago.  But then as the rays of light shifted, I imagined glaciers and ice caves illuminated in rainbow colors throughout an arctic day.

The sun soon dipped behind a building and with it most of the light but just enough remained for one last shot that made me think of a cavern opening.