Marveling at the intricate beauty of … Clouds.
Amerson River Park. Macon, GA
Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 4/8/24 “Clouds”
Tag: Photography
Shhh … Silent Sunday. 4/7/24
Okay, sorry but the Sunday Silence just ended.
So. Robert and I have been members of our local library’s Fight Club, I mean SPICE CLUB! for a while now. Every couple of months, they present a new spice, with a little history about the spice and a few recipes to try.
We Love It!
The current spice is … Vadouvan. One of my very favorite! Okay, TIB (Truth in Blogging): I have never heard of it before.
“Simply put, Vadouvan is a French curry powder. Vadouvan combines many of the classic flavors of Indian cuisine in a typically French preparation. French chefs in southeastern India used a Tamil spice blend, known as vadavam or vadagam, as their primary influence when creating vadouvan. The flavor of vadouvan is best described as being mellow and sweet with smoky notes.” SpiceClub
And the vadouvan recipe I chose to try?
It took a while to prep, but oh my goodness, how delicious it was! I served it with yellow saffron rice. 
Even though I broke the silence on my Silent Sunday post, you REALLY needed to know about Vadouvan, didn’t you?
My Saturday Evening Post: 4/6/24 “The Geometry of the Universe (or at Least My Hall)”
My very favorite subject in high school was GEOMETRY.
Unlike calculus, trigonometry, and even algebra, geometry just made plain sense to me.
I mean, everything seems to have a shape. Even if it’s shapeless, isn’t that still sort of a category of a shape?
I also like the way the word “geometry” sounds and even feels coming out of my mouth. Try saying it.
“gee-ah-muh-tree”
Now try saying it a little slower.
“geeee-ahhhh-muuuh-treee”
It’s like getting a teensy massage of the mouth and lips. (Stop staring at me like that. It is!)
And it has such a rhythmic flow.
So yes, I love geometry. The word and the subject.
And apparently, so does my iPhone’s camera. For as I was walking out our front door the other day, minding my own business, my phone looked down and somehow without my assistance snapped a quick photo of our hallway floor, etc.,etc., including my left shoe.
When I discovered the unintentional (at least by me) photo, I have to say that I was a bit charmed with my phone’s artistic expertise and perspective.
Just look at all the geometry!
Circles and squares and ovals. Rectangles and triangles. Lines and points.
If I squint, I think I can even make out a few symbols from sacred geometry.
So even though I have not discovered what the geometry of the universe really is, I do have a better “footing” for my hallway’s geometry.
Five Friday Happy Bringers 4/5/24.
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. HR and I attending a very cool “high tea” here in Savannah with daughter Amy and ex-wife Donna.
2. Wisteria in Savannah!
Can you smell it?!
3. Being able (at least occasionally) to “let things go.”
4. On our recent trip to Baltimore, Robert being reunited with some of his artwork from his childhood.
No, no, don’t try to buy it. It’s priceless!
5. Deviled eggs.
May your weekend smell better than wisteria and taste better than deviled eggs!
One-Word Wednesday: 4/3/24
“Bridge”
“The Bay Bridge crosses the Chesapeake Bay along US 50/301. Its dual spans provide a direct connection between recreational and ocean regions on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the metropolitan areas of Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington, D.C. At four miles, the spans are among the world’s longest and most scenic over-water structures.” Bridges.com
A day after the horrific tragedy of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Baltimore Harbor, Robert and I had to travel across the nearby 4.5 mile Annapolis Bay Bridge to visit his grandmother on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. (Incredibly, HR’s still young enough to have a living grandmother!)
The weather was terrible. Dark, cold and very rainy as we crossed the bridge.
I was a nervous wreck. I tried not to, but all I could think about was what had happened yesterday.
Thankfully, we made it across. But we were most sadly aware that not everyone made it across the Key Bridge.
The Beauty of Emptiness
Walking down an alley near me here in Savannah this morning, I came across this …
It struck me, immediately, as beautiful.
Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 4/1/24 “Hodgepodge”
Marveling this Monday morning, as I scroll through a hodgepodge of photos from our Baltimore trip last week.
NATURE
ART
Even our cutlery at lunch in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore was sort of artsy.
I believe that if we attend to our lives carefully, we will see much to cause us to pause and MARVEL.
Joyful Easter!
What a wonderful Easter service at our Asbury Memorial Church this morning here in Savannah.
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH
One: We believe in God:
All: who is older than eternity,and younger than our next breath; who is beyond describing, yet knows us all by name; who inspires faith,yet cannot be contained by religion.
One: We believe in Jesus Christ, flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone:
All: He came in the body to give worth to every human life. He touched the untouchable, loved the unlovable, forgave the unforgivable, and endured slander, persecution, and death in order that through suffering love God’s kingdom might come on earth. He rose from the grave as living proof that what is laid down in faith will be raised in glory
One: We believe in the Holy Spirit:
All: who leads us into truth and freedom, who gives good gifts to all God’s children, who inspires research, enables prayer, and wills that human economics and politics should prioritize justice, care of the earth, and the healing of nations.
One: We celebrate the potential of the Church:
All: the life in our bodies, the yearning in our souls, the promise of good things in store, and the opportunity to love and serve one another.
Amen.
Water, River, Spirit, Grace,
Sweep over me, Sweep over me!
Recarve the depths your fingers traced
In sculpting me, in sculpting me.
HR and I hope that you are having a peaceful Easter 2024.
A Fresh and Just Look at Stained Glass … “Saint Kern“
Today Robert and I visited the Walter Museum of Art in Baltimore. Our favorite exhibit was one called “Saint Amelie.”
SAINT AMELIE
Kehinde Wiley (American, born 1977), 2014
Saint Amelie is one of a series of twelve freestanding stained glass panels by Kehinde Wiley that depict contemporary portraits of young Black residents of Brooklyn, New York. It mirrors the form, composition, figural pose, and framing of historic stained glass windows from the medieval and Renaissance periods, and specifically a window titled Saint Amelie by the French Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).
Wiley honors his subject, Kern Alexander, whom he used as a model in multiple works, by depicting him in a context traditionally reserved for Christian saints and religious contemplation.
Like much in Wiley’s work, Saint Amelie explores the invisibility of Black people within the traditional art historical canon.
Hand-painted stained glass, mounted on lightbox with aluminum frame.
A beautiful exhibit!
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