Ink Blots

Just some randomness. Happy Monday!

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(all by me unless otherwise stated)

xoxo,

Morgan

Gray Denim Rose

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, we shall have peace."

-Anonymous

“It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us the most.”

-Nelson Mandela

 "Whether real or perceived, lack of power can also corrupt."

- Frank Beddor in Arch Enemy

"Some people transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

-Pablo Picasso

"In the end, what affect your life most are the things too simple to talk about."

-Nell Blaine

"Dreams are necessary to life."

-Anais Nin

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

-Oscar Wilde

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
-Abraham Lincoln

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

-Dale Carnegie

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

-Henri Matisse

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."

-James Matthew Barrie

A few of my favorite quotes and then some... thank you to Xan for finding me a rose, and credit goes to this website for the rose quotes. I photographed and edited each of the pictures.

Vibrance

(edited by me)

I like modeling, sort of, in small increments. When I have no choice. Thanks to my lovely pal over at Ten Birds on a Branch for taking the pictures. 

The Sky Darkens

I was sitting at the kitchen counter, reading one of those books that I don't particularly like but I read anyway and am not sure why, when I noticed that, at 2:30 pm three days after the summer solstice, the sky was darkening. Obviously a thunderstorm, which thrilled me as I love thunderstorms, and bothered me because I hate turning on lights in the middle of the day and it was so dark I that would have to. So, I left my book and went to play the piano. After twenty minutes of this, I was playing some Duvernoy etudes and not really focusing on the piece while my fingers played the notes all by themselves (this happens to me very often) and it occurred to me that I would really like to go outside and lie on the grass and take pictures of the sky until it started raining. I thought about how a cloudy sky really isn't just one layer of clouds--it is several, clumped together to create beautiful designs and beautiful photographs, especially if there are some tree branches or something around the edges. However, in my head, I argued against this idea, as I practiced my etudes, for the reason that I am wearing my lovely new American Eagle blouse that I bought only yesterday, and wouldn't want to stain it from lying on the ground...
Then I stopped--this seemed meaningful. Did I really decide not to go outside because of something material and, in the long run, extremely trivial? Why do I think that so many others have done this, too? That all of society is caught under the spell of material thinking, and not the possibility of lying in the grass before a storm???!!!! This shocked me into swiftly wrapping up my practicing to grab the camera (you probably know me well enough by now that I didn't even have to think to do this, I just did--cameras are extensions of my hands) and open the squeaky breezeway door to the gorgeous day that awaited me. I didn't lie on the grass, I chose a wooden bench instead. Maybe next time, though, when the sky darkens, I will choose the grass.

River Flows in You

... by Yiruma, it's a gorgeous piano piece. Today, when I wasn't busy making smoothies, recorded it into Garage Band and basically created a whole piece of music. I added a cute little album cover I made in Photoshop and then I had a song, by me, in my iTunes library, and now on my blog. 

I love, love, love music.

Strawberry~Banana Smoothies

Today, I tried to make a strawberry~banana smoothie for myself Today, I discovered that I am not destined to be a chef. After all, successful smoothies do not tend to involve mopping up milk and smoothie that overflows across the counter....well, as my lovely mother said, "I don't see any on the walls!" There's someone who knows what's important in life :) Anyway, after I cleaned up the mess,       I took pictures of the smoothies and even washed strawberries to pose with them  I figured out that this is a pretty pathetic way to spend the first Monday of summer. But whatever. Summer is for three things: smoothies and adventures...and blogging about it all. 

Credits:

Photography: me, my Canon Powershot A470

 Editing: Me, Photoshop, and the iPhone app "TiltShiftGeneration"

Just For Fun

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend! It's summer: enjoy.

credits: 

the very first picture...photographed by Hedi Slimane as a promotional picture for Lady GaGa's "The Fame Monster"

Calvin and Hobbes...by Bill Waterson, found here.

everything else....photographed by moi

everything... I edited on the iPhone application "Tilt Shift Generation"