Art Every Day Month always stretches me when I commit to myself to create and blog every day of the month. Every.Day. Even today when it’s son-in-law’s birthday, after yesterday when I had a lovely long everying with the artgal pals. In other words even today when I haven’t been focused on creating art. This always leads to photography. And every year I find myself doing one day of yard pictures – which is kind of nice as, year to year, I get to follow the changes in the yard (this link is a video – as you watch through it you will see scenes with some of the pictures below. The white cat that was my mom’s was broken by wind, so I’m glad I have this video!).
This year, following the idea of things I see every day to the point of hardly noticing them anymore, I decided to get up-close and personal with my ordinary yard. And here are the results. Enjoy!
Wylde Women’s Wisdom
Sunsets happen even when we don’t notice. Grace falls down on us and we brush it off annoyed that our clothes have all this sparkling stuff on them when we’re trying so hard to be serious and accomplish something here. This gives me a great deal of hope. Here we toil, plotting and planning and worrying and scurrying, and the best things just throw themselves at our feet and pant to be noticed. We don’t have to toil or plot or plan or worry or scurry. They come to us. (see: the lilies in the field..). And we get to pay attention or not. Tammy Vitale
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You’ve given me massive yard envy. Gorgeous photos!
Virginia – the overriding theme for me when I was taking the pictures was pattern and texture. I am fascinated by the textures you can find in nature and even in human made structures – when I travel I always take a day to shoot “up-close.”
Dear All – thanks so much for stopping by! I love sharing my yard. It got where it is from my hanging out leftovers, broken, didn’t like, no where else to put them things! If those aren’t
ordinary, I don’t know what is!
And Tracy: I’m SUCH a frog person! I started collecting them on my first honeymoon when I was 19. I borrowed a ceramic frog from a little pond at a Pocono honeymoon place which is long gone, but the frog lives on in my bathroom. Then I moved here and I have a pond of frogs and a yard of toads and the collection continued. This particular one definitely has a lot of attitude – lived inside for several years and has been outside for 2.
And I love my yard.
Wow – you found the extraordinary in the ordinary! Your yard feels like it’s a magical place indeed. Thank you for sharing!
Love that frog, btw. 😉
Warmly,
Tracy
Tammy it is wonderful seeing these interesting snippets of your yard… there is nothing ordinary about it
Dear Tammy, Thank you for being such an inspiration;I had a lot of fun trying to “work them out” in my mind…but what came across was the textures and pattern;I wonder what would happen if you took one image-rotated it sideways then repeated it;and so on. It could be an interesting exercise in pattern making. Each one would be the same yet different and that brings me to a place of “ritual”I look foreward to seeing how you progress! All the very best wishes,from VIRGINIA.xxx
Watched the video and your yard is anything but ordinary! Treasures hidden everywhere–on the ground, in the trees. Wow!
I think photography is an art and should definitely count for AEDM. 🙂
I really enjoyed your photographs, thank you!
Gwen xx
Thank you for the visual tour of your yard… I too love to take pictures of my ordinary yard because sometimes you find the most extraordinary every day things that make your heart sing. Love this.