S is for Smorgasbord. Yes I know I’m stretching it, and being somewhat silly. There was a break between storms, and the ocean at Manor Bluffs looked so pretty. That’s the unstable, crumbling edge of the cliff you see in the lower right, and the beach 60 feet below. (This was also the vantage point for February’s H: Horizon shot.)
S is for Slice. In this case, grapefruit. Or pamplemousse in French, which is a superior word.
S is for Shelley, sharing. I bribed Shelley with some wider (taller?) looms to continue experimenting with her weaving magic. She sent variations on three traditional patterns, bird’s eye, twill and goose eye.
Mind blown (again.)
Jan of morphunkyMiniatures in Edinburgh, UK let me share what she’s doing with the Toto2 basket kits. Love the vintage illustrations on the lids! Be sure to check out her other great luggage, furniture and “eccentricities” — very original and beautifully made.
S is for Stone. I like rocks, a lot. This one is incomprehensibly old, and it used to be alive O_O. Keli recently surprised me with a package of Michigan goodness, including this specimen of fossilized coral called Petoskey Stone. Well worth reading about! In the sun, the white parts sparkle. Stunning.
S is for Sign and a Sign-off Story. This is a large — almost five feet wide — sheet metal sign, “handcrafted by an Amish craftsman known around Lancaster County as Rusty Merv”, that I accidentally got some years ago. Originally ordered as a gift for my daughter, I mildly damaged it slicing open the shipping box with an X-acto. (In my defense, it was very poorly packaged.) So I had a new one shipped to her, and held on to this one. It was a nice brick red color at the start; when I lived in the mid-century house with all wood paneling, I spray painted it this dull moss color.
Right-reading, ‘gather’ has hung in various places in a few different houses, and most recently, perpendicularly in the entry way that opens to our living room. With the nancyland studio re-org, I moved it over the thinking couch (which folds out into a guest bed) and hung it upside down. This makes me smile all the time, I think because I’m an introvert.
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The Surreal looking seascape is Superb as are the Saucy basket weavings and the Toto baskets. The stone resembles simple patchwork whilst the inverted sign sets my head a-spinning.
All in all a Scrumptious, Savory, Smorgasbord; a Sapid feast for the eyes!
Ooooh, Elizabeth, thanks for playing along, and especially for “sapid”, a new vocabulary word! It seems like it would be a cross between ‘vapid’ and ‘stupid’, but oh, no no no. Splendid!
Elizabeth said it!
I keep getting tripped up on the grapefruit photo, it looks manufactured out of metal and paint to my eye and then if I scroll back to it, it will look like a shining slice of fruit until my brain converts it back to a old sign. Weird!
Interesting, ShelleyB! The power of grapefruit :)
I can’t get over those weaving patterns! Amazing.
I know! Makes my fingers itch to try them!
shimmering sunglow
scintillates sapphire swells
sparkling silver
Indeed the very beauty, a feast for the eyes.
“S” to me will always be “Sweet, sweet, sway”…
A pamplemousse coifs
a glamorous pompadour
using ample mousse
Sunbeams of promise
Hexagonaria past
Found at water’s edge
A curious mind
Sends fingertips wandering
Coaxing weft through warp
Gather grandchildren
Hold hands in the upside down
Toes tickling the sky
A haiku a day
(Insert seven syllables)
Keeps the brain in play
Syllabication
Oversimplification
Appreciation