Circles On Circles, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
the pond from the house
shadows of living trees, ice
circles on circles
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, February 16th, 2008
-related to post, haiku (one-a-day) and WRITING TOPIC – CIRCLES
QM, very cool! D
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diddy, thanks! Hope you all are having a great weekend out East. Finally, warmed up a bit here in the Great Midwest!
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Very nice treatment. Your snow looks like my now – amazing this year, and a blizzard out side my window now!
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barbara, you all are really getting hit in Wisconsin this year. Hey, I hope the weather cooperates for you Primary on Tuesday. You all have gotten tons more snow than we have. I think we might have gotten more snow last year. But this year – whew, the cold has been amazing here.
Yesterday it warmed up and we went to an Art Shanty show on Medicine Lake. Really fun. It’s going to drop off in temps again tomorrow. Today it’s 29 degrees. Later tonight, dropping below zero again. I see Wisconsin is getting the bulk of the snow. Stay warm!
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What a great photo, QM. Were you thinking of our recent Circles topic when you shot it?
Also, I just realized that the window must be pretty darned cool. It’s like a work of art itself, the way it frames the pond.
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Robin, thank you for the link. I saw your post and look forward to what is to come after Bountiful Healing. At least I know something is happening – new venue or changes to the old. I will keep checking.
ybonesy, that’s a good question. I suppose I could have all the Topics kind of in the back of my mind when I shoot. And pay more attention to when circles appear before me. 8)
I was probably misleading in the haiku – the circle I am shooting through is actually a circular sculpture in my friends’ back yard. The view *is* their actual view from their back windows (which take up the whole back wall of their house). But I’m shooting the same view through a rusty ring on a sculpture nailed to the top of a piece of wood. The sculpture is right outside their windows.
Hard to describe! I took a few shots like this before on Winter Solstice when I was at their house. But they were dark and out of focus. So the last time I was there, I shot the shot again and got a few good ones. This was my fave.
BTW, speaking of Winter Solstice, if you look to the bottom left of the photo, you can see a half circle of stumps. That’s where we made our circle and fire for Winter Solstice last year.
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That’s interesting, how my mind interpreted the haiku. I pictured the circles a window from the house and the pond a view from inside the house looking out. (If asked, I would have recalled that the photo caption said this was a view from inside the house, which it didn’t, and so what fascinates me most is that I read that first line of the haiku and that’s what formed this impression in my mind.)
Your description of the sculpture out in the back is clear, and I get a good picture to replace the other one in my head ; – ).
I do see the circle stumps, too. How cool. Does the pond freeze over in winter? I imagine it does. Have you ever skated on it? That would be fun.
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Yeah, you know something I’ve noticed about all the haiku people are leaving on red Ravine (which I love), is that they are so short and concise, they leave a lot of room for interpretation. You can read emotion into them, placement of land or objects – there is so little information. Which makes haiku so cool. The rest is up to your imagination.
That’s why I loved when you said that about the circle in the photo being the window. It’s another whole interpretation of the photo and haiku – your interpretation – which is what makes it all art. 8)
I like using images and text and always have. The haiku and photographs can really play off each other and create something completely separate from either. I love that about art. There is no wrong way to interpret an image or the text of a haiku. The best thing for an artist, is that someone ran with it and created their own image.
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Lovely visual image…both the photo and the haiku.
Susan
http://www.organicsyes.wordpress.com
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Susan, thank you. Welcome to red Ravine. I like your dream collages. Great way to work with dreams.
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🙂
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