Alphabet Blog Walk

What a Brilliant Idea! Carla at Paper Clippings of a Wandering Artist  turned me on to a blog called One Sydney Road where they are hosting an Alphabet Blog Walk. You sign up for a letter and then take a picture representing that letter and post it on your blog on a specific day. Then everyone downloads the bloglists and hops from one blog to the next checking out everyone's photos. I chose the letter F because I'm heading up to the forest today for Summer Solstice.

So hop over to One Sydney Road and claim a letter!

Also, check out the Fabulous Portal Pics at Kit and Kaboodle.

Doors

There is a quote I love that goes:

"There are things we see and things we don't see, and in between there are the doors".

I've always had a fascination for doors; these icons of transition.

Here are a few of my favorites.

Inspiration From The Forest

People have asked me why the name of my business is "Emerald Window"? In short, it's because I love the forest and I get much of my inspiration from it,even if it doesn't show in a particular piece. The forest rejuvenates me. I look at everything as if I was looking at it from some magical woods (through an Emerald Window!). I like to fantasize that I live in a hollow tree that magically expands to house proportions as I walk through the rustic door. I should have been a sylph.

Here are some pictures that capture a little of the magic I feel when I am deep in the green.

These pictures were taken at Silver Falls near Silverton, Oregon. This week-end my sweety and I are planning a picnic and picture-takng trip up to Belknap Hotsprings, where I worked, oh so long ago.

I feel some creativity coming on.