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Category: Fitness, Health, Happiness

  • Wordless Wednesday: Wonder

    Wordless Wednesday: Wonder

    wonder emerson quote trees

    two roads diverge in the wood...

    uprooted tree

    communing with nature

    mossy tree

    kids in woods

    if do right, no can defense

     

    “The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.”

    The wonder, really,  is that we can live this life each day…
    and not be continually amazed.

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  • Indian Summer

    Indian Summer

    indian summer grasshopper

    A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper…

    Braver, heartier, keener, care-free enjoyment of life
    I have never seen or heard
    in any creature great or small.

    The life of this comic, the mountain’s merriest child,
    seems to be made up of pure, condensed gaiety…

    Nature in him seems to be snapping her fingers
    in the face of all earthly dejection and melancholy
    with a boyish hip-hip-hurrah.

    -John Muir

    Two-Striped Grasshopper, Melanoplus bivittatus. Big guy. Found in most of the US in meadowy locales.

    Easy-peasy grasshopper identification guide here.

    I’m spending as many moments as possible in the perfection going on outside.

    Actual posting will happen later: when tired, dirty, happy, the quickening darkness forces me back inside.

    Winter will be here before you know it…

    Get out and play today!

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  • Raw Color = Nature’s Colors

    raw color exhibition

    Great art picks up where nature ends.

    -Marc Chagall

    vegetable color palette

    With innovation and technology,
    seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty
    the world has to offer.

    -A.C. Van Cherub

    vegetable dyed textiles

    Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

    vegetable color palette liquid

    Nature is my medicine.  –

    Sara Moss-Wolfe

    Love this artistic exploration into the colors created by vegetables, distilled into different mediums like soap, Zout, alcohol. (Media, I guess is more correct, but I think something entirely different when I use that word. Invoking the ‘it’s my blog and I’ll write what I want to’ rule.)

    The first two belong to an exhibit named RAW COLOR:

    Vegetables are dismantled and purified to their visual essence ‘RAW COLOR’. The harvested color is captured by a new process preserving their intensity on color cards.

    The third is the colors applied to textiles; the last an exhibit featuring the liquid palette.

    I love how the colors all seem to be complementary and I can’t help but wonder if painting your house in these hues would create a sort of medicinal color therapy. The health and mood boosting effects of time spent in nature are well-documented; to what extent are those effects drawn from nature’s soothing yet energizing color palette?

    Interesting ideas, and really I could get lost forever in all the different exhibits. Rather than me listing them all I suggest you go check them out for yourself (but please don’t miss the Sight Unseen Photos, they are awesome).

    I need to paint my kitchen. And dining room. And… the whole house, really.

    Where did you draw the inspiration for the colors of your home?

    {via The Kitchn}