The Feast of Which We Forget to Partake - The Subtle, Dazzling Textures All Around Us

Slow down, you move too fast....as Simon and Garfunkle sang in the 59th Street Bridge Song....We move through the world so quickly, thinking about who knows what, that we miss the dazzling and wonderous subtleties right in front of our noses.

At the pace we're usually buzzing about we scarcely notice a thing except at the grossest levels of reality, like color and shape. Not that these can't be lovely, but they tell such a little bit of the story. There are so many delights, mysteries, and beauties right in front of us if we'd only slow down to look. Artist Ginny Ruffner once called it the feast of which we neglect to partake...and this feast is our everyday life, the creatures, plants and objects all around us....

In these last few days of summer, I've been trying to take Simon and Garfunkle's advice to make the morning last by slowing down, and opening my eyes to the textures of everyday things....

Up close, tree bark is a gorgeous abstraction, a landscape, a microcosm of the world as well as a world unto itself...

Bridget's clean, soft coat, fresh from the bath

The intricate patterning of an agave

You'll never guess what this is...besides pull tabs, and the inspiration for this blog post....

The scales of a fish! At Sleeping Lady Resort on the shores of Icicle Creek near Leavenworth

Comments

[kate]

I love this post! A good reminder and I must say, that's a very creative idea, to use bottle tabs as an inlay like that...

[Jenny Windmiller]

Thank you for making note of slowing down to take a closer at our natural world. I'm reminded of a quote by Georgia O'Keefe- "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else..."

[web development company london]

I want to give that world to someone else..." I must say, that's a very creative idea, to use bottle tabs as an inlay like that...

[DariaW]

It's funny, but I thought of a Georgia O'Keefe quote as well. She spoke of why she painted flowers; "Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time...So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers."