They are everywhere. Yet no one sees them…
Archives for 2013
A Painting For All Seasons
Anne’s paintings bring the everyday, the familiar into sharp focus for the viewer to experience in new way. Everyday items, a vista, a flower, become an opportunity to slow the senses and appreciate their beauty and simplicity.
Germany – Wine, Food and Fine Cars
The authors travel by train through central Germany, sampling local wines, enjoying the unique regional food, and touring the Mercedes-Benz Museum.
West Coast Bloomers
I’ve lived on the west coast for the past 20 years and on many occasions friends from faraway places ask what keeps me here. I sometimes ask myself the same question.
Making Pear Syrup is more than making syrup
I like the feeling of knowing that there will be a “pear syrup making day” put aside each fall, guilt-free, when I can partake once more in a ritual that combines usefulness sweetness, and nostalgia.
Confessions of a Former Grammar Queen
Over the years I have corrected a lot of people. I have been the person who rants about misplaced apostrophes, confused homophones, needless truncations or abbreviations, and other abuses of the English language common in modern usage. Recently I started to turn a corner.
Preventing Teen Drug Use
Experimentation with drugs and alcohol during the teen years is often thought of as harmless curiosity, but the opposite is true. The younger a person is when they start using drugs, the more likely they are to develop an addiction and suffer from other serious side effects.
Vimy Ridge: Lest We Forget
Watching my 20-year-old son step onto the firing platform of a Canadian trench that extended to within whispering distance of heavily fortified German trenches on Vimy Ridge, France, my heart sank knowing that the young sons of Canadian and German families 96 years before had done the same never to return home from the First World War.
Remembrance Day
The argument can be made that the Second World War actually began at 7:00 A.M. on November 8, 1918 when German and French officers faced one another in a railroad car in the mist shrouded forest of Compigène to negotiate an armistice. Others mark the date as September 1, 1939, at 10:00 A.M. the day Poland was invaded and France declared war on Germany.
Logic of Light
The process of painting, for me, is a continual search for balance between all opposite elements; not too bright – not too dark, not too colourful – not too gray, not too cluttered – not too barren, not too strong – not too weak, not too controlled – not too free.
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- …
- 65
- Next Page »