by b real

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"The question is not what you look at but what you
see"

Henry David Thoreau

Cont. reading: Deciduous Designs

MoA commentator Rick writes:

A few weeks ago, I mentioned here at MOA about our little dog Pearl getting in a fight with some unknown animal. I recently purchased an automatic motion sensor camera to place in the woods behind our house. The camera is water-resistant and will take still or moving pictures, night or day.

I often put some corn out for the deer to keep them away from all the hunters this time of year,  but I wondered what else comes around.

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The night pictures [below the fold] are not that clear, but if you look close, you can see some deer keeping their distance from a raccoon and also a red fox that comes by every night.

I have seen a big bear roaming around here, but haven’t got a picture yet. Maybe I will try some peanut butter next – bears love peanut butter!

Cont. reading: ‘Bears Love Peanut Butter’

Twilight
oil on wood

by anna missed
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Which reminds me of this (vid)

Cont. reading: Twilight

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The Quiet Site is a family run park situated in a secluded position amongst the stunning flows of the river Rethe. This well maintained, picturesque site offers great facilities and easy access to the waters.

by beq
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For the average person, who is yet to be enlightened, yoga is a way to positively increase one’s spiritual awareness and cultivate their powers of perception.

by remembereringgiap
(lifted from a comment)

one hundred and fifty one
& we were/joined by subversives/in foolish moves/we might have
made a fortune/while discussing milton/with the saints/who swore black
& blue paintings/were sold easily/to wellwishers/who wore waste
& always spoke/from the corners/of their mouths/like elegant gangsters
from forties films/where everyone was/on the take/& went down
nightly to harlem/to get fix/from art pepper/perhaps imitating black
man on other/side of city/sitting in studio/painting pretty picture
before he became/married to museum/of modern art/he was poor
mark rothkowitz/who really wanted/to be scholar/of the torah
reading a chapter/or a verse/in private place/where he’d worship
to whatever god/was left after/city of riga/fell to kingdom/come with all
stories of scherezades/that used to/fill that town/even during pogroms
a dirty joke/was always told/at the bootmakers/to one of/his gentile friends
of whom himmler/once spoke clearly/when he was/speaking of good
jew he said/when planning final/solution he sought/this perfect pedagogue
who preffered chickens/even though vegetarian/like his master
he was once/asked if perhaps/there was good/jews to be/had he thought

Cont. reading: A Poem

Commentator remembereringgiap endows some precious fruitcake music to his comrades here at the Moon of Alabama.

These songs are from a CD that will be released later this year in France and Australia.

• Ships (mp3 – 2.8 mb)
• Burden of proof (mp3 – 3.6 mb)
• Making me believe in make believe (mp3 – 3.3 mb)

The group is The Louise Blackwell Quartet. The CD’s title is Sea is turning.

All lyrics by remembereringgiap

In The Garden

for annie by beq

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b adds:

[She pulls off the petals and murmurs.]

Faust. What are you murmuring?
Margaret [half aloud]. He loves me – loves me not!
Faust. Sweet, heavenly vision!
Margaret [goes on]. Loves me – not – loves me – not-

[Plucking off the last petal with lovely joy.]

He loves me!
Faust. Yes, my child! and let this blossom’s word
Be oracle of gods to you! He loves you!
You understand that word and what it means? He loves you!

[He seizes both her hands.]

Margaret. I’m all a-tremble!
Faust. Oh, shudder not! But let this look,
Let this hand-pressure say to you
What is unspeakable:
To give one’s self up wholly and to feel
A rapture that must be eternal!
Eternal! – for its end would be despair.
No! no end! no end!

J.W. v.Goethe, Faust, Martha’s Garden

art by beq

Got this one from beq.

Any idea what the Japanese writing or the abstract figure might depict?

by beq
20"x20" pastel on paper
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Cont. reading: Reaching to Pluck the Flowers

(update below)

Jana is one of my favorite local street artists. She sings balads/chanson in four languages, with an impressive voice and seemingly in trance.

Today she had selfmade CDs for sale.

Drachenblut (mp3) is sung in bard style and a mixture of modern and medievial German

Living A Sunday (mp3)

my favorite: Gold ("why aren’t you here with me …") (mp3)

(I didn’t compress much, so filesizes are about 4Mb)

bigger pic, another pic

(sorry, only cellphone cam pics)

How do you like her music? I’ll let her know your opinion.

Update:

Today I met Jana for a coffee/tea and did get the CDs for those of you who asked. (And yes Rowan, she is really pretty …)

Here are four more songs by her, though only as teasers – i.e. incomplete. Still, very enjoyable music – give it a try.

Toute En Ronde,
Mis Sueños,
Is It Okay? and something special.

If you want to have a CD by this coming star, let me know.

by b real

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"The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart away from nature becomes hard; He knows that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too."
chief
luther standing bear

Cont. reading: Autumn Whispers

"Pie In The Sky"
photo by
anna missed
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House prices in U S metropolitan areas may decline by more than 10 percent in the months and years ahead as higher borrowing costs hurt demand, a study by a Moody’s Corp. unit shows.
…
The median home price in the United States next year may fall for the first time since the Great Depression, according to Gabriel Stein, chief international economist at Lombard Street Research in London.
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The housing boom lifted the US median home price by 49 percent in the five years ended in 2005, according to the Chicago-based National Association of Realtors. That added to the net worth of homeowners and creating a so-called wealth effect that spurred spending as homeowners refinanced and took on more mortgage debt.
Report sees double-digit declines in home prices

by James Parker & beq

beq wrote yesterday:

My SO, James, and I have been working together on a project all summer.

This is a piece for an outdoor sculpture show in an industrial area of Richmond
that is slowly becoming a gallery/artist’s community and there is a successful
micro-brewery in the district as well.

We installed it a little over a week ago at the brewery and the opening is
tomorrow night. I’ve been trying to get good nighttime photos of it because it
is lit from outside and within. It’s hard because it’s basically colorless and
the etched glass panels are very subtle. It suggests an urban kiosk and we are
making a statement about the environment and human effect and the risk to the
future.

The website for the exhibition is here. I warn you that it is interactive and tedious.

There is bigger version (150kb) of the picture available and a detail view (240kb).

Swamp Dreams IV
(detail)

by b real

Swamp Dreams IV,
III, II,
I (full view, ~ 280 kb each)

Swamp Dreams – Part 1
The Artists (full view – 180 kb)