I haven’t done much photography lately, so my well of Wordless Wednesday candidates has run dry. What’s more, this will be my only post today because it’s gonna be a madly crazy day today.
Speaking of which, a song used in a local television commercial for Integris has gotten stuck into my head. Last night, I had Ashley look it up and she discovered it was “Mad World” as performed by Gary Jules. I then remembered seeing this video of the song many months ago.
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It was originally sung by Tears for Fears back in 1982. Here’s their blast-from-the-past video… Continued
This image is of dunes of sand and seaweed, sculpted by the ocean currents, in the Bahamas. “The fluted, underwater dunes are formed in much the same way as sand dunes in deserts.” It is my absolute favorite of 30 images posted by Environmental Graffiti that the resurrected from an exhibition in 2000. They explain:
The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.
We thought that it, in case you missed the exhibition, it would be amazing to dig up these images and provide some wallpapers for you to download. All images are used courtesy of NASA.
The authors made this observation:
At ground level, one can only imagine the sheer beauty of mountain ranges, deserts and deltas seen high up from NASA’s satellites. One can imagine - yes - however, they wouldn’t be quite prepared for the fact that from 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art. The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist. Mother Nature is an abstract artist.
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* Wordless Wednesday became Wordless Thursday this week because somehow I missed that yesterdaywas Wednesday — how embarrassing. It’s been a crazy, crazy week, which seems to be becoming the norm, unfortunately; sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind… or at least a day here and there! I suppose it’s appropriate since Wordless Wednesday wasn’t any more “Wordless” than it was “Wednesday.”
I hope you don’t find that declaration too crass. What does it mean? It means my youngest daughter is coming into her own.
Tomorrow, for my Wordless Wednesday post(s), I’ll be featuring photographs taken by my daughter, who has an amazing natural talent that is beginning to reveal itself. I like her photography so much, her work will probably appear often in my blog. I have little doubt that she will surpass me by leaps and bounds in the quality of her work.
So, you’ll get to watch along with us as we watch our baby girl blossom into a wonderfully talented artist.
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