Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:   Your Mind Sings: Listen The mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.    Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Featured image:   Winter River The air is very thin in winter. Moisture frozen to pines and maples. Cool ice colors cover, white greens and brown. Where not so long ago trees were covered with warm color. A single coppery brown oak leaf shivers in the breeze. Winter has a different kind of stillness. Sitting quietly in winter.

  Featured image:   Heading Home Do I miss you when you are gone? Do I rejoice when you return? Your place, your special place Your place on this earth Your place on this earth.

  Featured image:   Just Saying I Love You When he looks at me his gaze holds such wonder he tells me I am beautiful as he holds my face cupped in his hands. I say …. I love you so.

 Featured image:  Transparent Wings and Sunshine - Dragonfly Sunlight plays with the trees Stillness of the Snow Pines transformed wild places reimagined.

  Featured image:  Kaleidoscope Of Raw Reality: We Are So Small – Northern Lights The magic of light, frequently gives us a glimpse into the mysterious-ness that dwells within us.

  Featured image:   Sacred Earth The earth offers a Stillness calming trusting Hope Magnificent earth.

  Featured image:   Gram's Farm Morning light lowly takes away darkness. The first blush of dawn. Time unfolds yet again.

  Featured image:   Sunset At The Lake Light abandons day. Twilight. Orange sky low hanging clouds. This will only happen once only once. Glorious.

  Featured image:  If It Looks Like A Bird If the beautiful is lost, then the soul is lost. Surface is all that is left. Your soul's beauty is far beyond appearance. And surface So we must discover the aesthetics, the beautiful, we must experience our complexity we must dance with our opposition. We must, from abstraction create, and create and create, beauty.

  Featured image:  At Peace When we experience the beautiful; we not only discover tranquility but also the greatest wildness within and without. The beautiful allows us to live on the edge.

  Featured image:  Arches of Triumph The sovereign sanctuary of nature its peace and its holiness reality is both the positive and negative heaven and hell here on earth. God is all things natural, wilderness, the mysterious, wind, rain, lakes, rivers streams, oceans, sunlight and shadow within these things you can find freedom.

  Featured image:   Nature's Beauty The rhythm of nature with its sublime winds and serene pulse for me is a love affair that triggers and restores my mind restores true spirit true aliveness the yes Yes yes of all things natural.

  Featured image:  Boreal Forest Shoreline Old picnic table Gentle breeze Early morning sun Cedar trees Surround me Turins swooping diving Silence, silence

  Featured image:   Evening Grosbeak Birds perch on the feeders edge. Their wings are flapping trying to settle. I have always loved my imaginings of flying, not only in my dreams, but in reality and in the things I create. It is no wonder that I would gravitate to painting birds, both realistically and imagined. I imagine their feathers being cooled by the wind as they fly. I imagine the wind drift lifting them higher and higher like a soaring eagle. I can see them settle on a branch and the sun drying their feathers after a rain. Such a natural thing for them. Yes, it is so unnatural for humans as they proclaim, “But it’s raining outside. Let’s not go” or “It’s too cold.” I frequently wonder at the little finches, sparrows, chickadee, and blue jays and how they stay warm in the winter with just those feathers. Feathers, like flying, have always been magical for me. It is no wonder I would gravitate to painting birds, realistically and imagined. I painted three little imagina...

  Featured image:   All Rise Have you ever noticed, perhaps when you meet a person for the very first time that they just shine?  There seems to be a light that is within them that is absolutely beautiful.  They radiate a light that has a very distinctive dignity.  Their light shines beyond their reality.  It is a brilliant light.   This is not a light that one can control.  You can’t turn this light on and off like a light switch on the wall. I personally think of this light as a hug from God.  The person may or may not believe in God, but for sure, He believes in them and hugs them often.  God’s grace, His light is in all of us.  Let us all let our lights shine.

  Featured image:   First Ice You are what you see. How you see is part of your spirit. Is the way you see creative?  How I see is not a static, flat view like a photo gives us,  But,  rather, I see as a dynamic ever changing, ever creative view of life happening. It is the dynamic dance of life and sight. I was standing under a canopy of entwined branches covered with snow.  The sun was shining through the light snow giving the canopy a stained glass feel – a very magical moment of light, life and sight.