It's based on a photo I took of our tree out front last fall. *digs out link* http://pics.livejournal.com/averygoodun/pic/0001d686/g48
That's the nice thing about this area... we do get wonderful seasons, even if winteristoo long and summer too hot. (And yes, I know LA gets hot, but usually it is dry, and under 100 F, that counts fora lot.)
What a beautiful photo! I think I'd like to live in a place that has real seasons, just for the experience. Living where there's snow ... what a concept! It's only ever been a concept for me, you see.
SoCA summers do stay dry, for the most part. There was a three-week stretch of really high humidity and temperatures in the 90s last June or July; that hit me like a hammer. So the dry heat doesn't bother me as much as it used to, even when it hits 100+. (Which, as you said, isn't all that often.)
Yeah, the comments weren't posting at all, and it was making you think that any posts to your own journal weren't either. I hate it when LJ goes down. I've become too dependent on it I think.
This is gorgeous! I love the colors. It reminds me of Monet's Waterlillies, in the best of all possibilities. After years of seeing the tote-bag images, I finally ran into the mural at MOMA. It was enormous, three wall-sized panels of blurry colors. It blew my mind. As did the realization that his waterlillies got bigger and blurrier as he lost his vision. Then he had cataract surgery and they came back into focus, got more realisitic, detailed, and smaller.
the Gimp is the poor man's version of Photoshop. I'm not sure, but I think it's shareware.
Thank you! That's the impression Ihad,as well as it evolved.
Art Institute of Chicago basically has a wing dedicated to Monet, and it's really neat seeing that transistion. I thought of him as murky lighting and abstract impressions until I saw that stuff (that's what the Louvre has the most of). Goodness gracious, but his good-eyesight works are glorious, though! The way he uses light is breathtaking, and it's no wonder he's a household name.
I also like the big, blurry paintings, but more from an intellectual standpoint. That description fromCluless stands out in my mind... "She's a Monet. Looks good from a distance but up close is a complete mess." I was shocked at how ugly and muddy Water Lily Pool (http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000003/1868_184701.jpg) is up close, and how it shines from across the room.
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Date: 2007-04-04 07:17 am (UTC)Go to bed.
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Date: 2007-04-05 08:25 pm (UTC)That's the nice thing about this area... we do get wonderful seasons, even if winteristoo long and summer too hot. (And yes, I know LA gets hot, but usually it is dry, and under 100 F, that counts fora lot.)
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Date: 2007-04-05 09:30 pm (UTC)SoCA summers do stay dry, for the most part. There was a three-week stretch of really high humidity and temperatures in the 90s last June or July; that hit me like a hammer. So the dry heat doesn't bother me as much as it used to, even when it hits 100+. (Which, as you said, isn't all that often.)
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Date: 2007-04-04 07:34 pm (UTC)That is very lovely!
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Date: 2007-04-05 08:26 pm (UTC)Comments not posting? I seems to recall a few others having that problem.
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Date: 2007-04-05 03:46 am (UTC)This is gorgeous! I love the colors. It reminds me of Monet's Waterlillies, in the best of all possibilities. After years of seeing the tote-bag images, I finally ran into the mural at MOMA. It was enormous, three wall-sized panels of blurry colors. It blew my mind. As did the realization that his waterlillies got bigger and blurrier as he lost his vision. Then he had cataract surgery and they came back into focus, got more realisitic, detailed, and smaller.
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Date: 2007-04-05 08:45 pm (UTC)Thank you! That's the impression Ihad,as well as it evolved.
Art Institute of Chicago basically has a wing dedicated to Monet, and it's really neat seeing that transistion. I thought of him as murky lighting and abstract impressions until I saw that stuff (that's what the Louvre has the most of). Goodness gracious, but his good-eyesight works are glorious, though! The way he uses light is breathtaking, and it's no wonder he's a household name.
I also like the big, blurry paintings, but more from an intellectual standpoint. That description fromCluless stands out in my mind... "She's a Monet. Looks good from a distance but up close is a complete mess." I was shocked at how ugly and muddy Water Lily Pool (http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000003/1868_184701.jpg) is up close, and how it shines from across the room.