Perigee

This past weekend there was a Super Moon. 

Condensed from Wikipedia: A coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.

The most recent occurrence was on June 23, 2013, as the closest and largest full moon of the year and the Moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2013. It will not be so close again until August 10, 2014.^[3]

Supermoons occur about once every 14 full moons in a full moon cycle.

The glow bounced off the roof & vines despite obstacles.

I ran out with my Nikon Coolpix camera and grabbed some shots from the back of my house, facing west, when I got home from work. The skies were clear all the way down the mountain and through the Alexander Valley vineyards as I rushed to where my camera was instead of with me. I ran out back and still received a moonshine facial as I looked up to the cloud filled skies.

The moon & clouds came together to highlight burnt umbers.

I sent these to Huffington Post to add to their slideshow of the event. I received an email that at least one was selected and can be seen here 'Supermoon' 2013 Photos And Tweets I'll be checking later, but so far am unable to see it amongst the 200 plus photos. If it is "liked" I receive points and it is moved closer to the beginning of the slideshow. Here's some I clicked on "like"...

Art and the Community

I'd Rather Belong to a Community Than a Company

"As Joni Mitchell said, I was “unfettered and alive.” While some people mock that as lazy, I believe that time spent making art, even time spent daydreaming, is of value and cannot and should not be commodified."--from a Bold Italic article written by Anisse Gross.

The Frig'

It occurred to me while taking this photo in remembrance of the Healdsburg Antique Fair of which I had a booth with my Floral and Hardy creations...that I have expressed my creativity on more than one refrigerator over the years. Museum worthy pieces of art. Interesting to look with a grin at least. 

It started when I began collecting old Look magazines when working for an architectural antique company in the early '70's. We would purchase large items for our boss who held auctions catering to interior decorators, restaurant owners, and celebrities. The little items were ours to keep so I collected things like old bottles, gingerbread (fancy pieces of wood) and other fun items.

Typically a collage made with old kitchen/food related ads from magazines from the '50's and 60's went on them. Great art and obviously thought (I learned this from Mad Men) went into creating those ads.

This is from one I covered in 2009. My friend Betty gave this refrigerator to me to put in my garage for my essential oils and other ingredients for Tat Jam. It was probably from the 70's, large and with character. However, it was an ugly grey. I tried spray painting it black but there were spots the paint didn't go on too smoothly so I started covering them up and got carried away as I do when I go on a decorating tangem.

I should have gotten a closer up shot of the ad entitled "Bringing Up Grandma". She's talking to her grand-daughter who she endearingly calls Puss about Kellogg's Bran Flakes keeping you regular. No way Don Draper thought of that one.

Betty's old frig didn't get full collage coverage like it should have. Guess I ran out of steam. I sold this frig in 2012 when I moved from Windsor to Healdsburg. It traveled from Indiana to California with me in 2010. It was an energy gobbler and very large. I sold it to a young guy that gave me the runaround then finally picked it up for $50. Actually, I ended up giving him back $20 because he said he didn't have any food to put in it because he spent his grocery money on the frig.

Hopefully he appreciated the humorous artistic nature of this exquisite piece.

In Honor of Leaf Dancer

Joan wants to show full support for Leaf Dancer by taking it off...

The Leaf Dancer Story

 

This is Joan before taking it off. She's wearing her summer attire consisting of an authentic 1970's homemade bathing suit top and her favorite shell necklace. The suit bottom is random from my better body bathing suit days. 

A shot of Joan hanging out with Shaggy photo bombing in his own special way. 

I was once offered money for this top when Joan wore it to a special event I did in 2009 when selling homemade t-shirts designed with recycling themes. Joan was there holding a sign. I made the top back in the 70's in the days that my ex and I were living and traveling in a purple school bus on modest means. I needed a bathing suit, so I found an old bra I had neglected in wearing; I didn't wear one often back then anyway. Patching clothes was very popular, sustaining, and looked really cool. Especially if they were embroidered on, which I did. I had plenty of pieces of material collected, so I put together this top which I wore with cut off blue jeans.

The tassle was added in the 90's.

Joan put to work August, 2009

Joan, adorned with her Halloween mask, peered out the window and thought, “If I were only a real girl, I could Trick or Treat.” Oct, 2009

Lily Tomlin said "For fast-acting relief, try slowing down"--Joan says, "so hard to relax with a stiff back".May, 2011