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Life is like a butterfly.

You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

Ruth Brown

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Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on July 12, 2025July 12, 2025Categories art, artist, exploring, grass, life, nature, photography, summer, summertime, wildTags art, artist, blogging, butterfly, oil painter, painter, photographyLeave a comment on Life is like a butterfly.

How softly summer shuts without the creaking of a door

abroad for evermore .

— Emily Dickinson

– letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, autumn 1880

Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 21, 2024Categories art, artist, photography, summerTags artist, blogging, nature, painter, summerLeave a comment on How softly summer shuts without the creaking of a door

Pink sky

Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 15, 2024Format ImageCategories art, artist, farming, photography, summer, sunsetTags abstract, art, artist, artist palette, artists, arts, blogging, nature, painting, photographyLeave a comment on Pink sky

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.”

-Auguste Rodin

Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 11, 2024Categories art, artist, nature, photography, summerTags artist, artists, blogging, oil painter, photography, reflections, river, Rodin'Leave a comment on “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.”

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art

I should call it the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.”

-Paul Cezanne

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Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 11, 2024Categories art, artist, nature, photography, summerTags artist, artists, blogging, oil painter, photographyLeave a comment on If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art

The object of art is not to reproduce reality

but to create a reality of the same intensity.

-Alberto Giacometti

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Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 11, 2024Categories farming, photography, summerTags artist, blogging, farm fields, nature, oil painter, photographyLeave a comment on The object of art is not to reproduce reality

Making hay

Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 10, 2024Format ImageCategories art, artist, baling hay, farming, hay bails, photography, summer, summertimeTags artist, blogging, farming, morning, oil painter, photographyLeave a comment on Making hay

Early morning sun

Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 10, 2024Format ImageCategories art, artist, farming, photography, summerTags artist, blogging, farming, oil painter, photographyLeave a comment on Early morning sun

Waiting for a bite

Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 3, 2024Format ImageCategories art, artist, bass fishing, fishing, fishing boat, photography, summer, summertimeTags artist, blogging, fishing, painter, photographyLeave a comment on Waiting for a bite

Summer should get a speeding ticket

– it goes by way too fast!

Unknown's avatarAuthor almostfinnishPosted on August 2, 2024Categories art, artist, photography, summer, summertime, sunset, treesTags artist, blogging, nature, painter, photography, summertime3 Comments on Summer should get a speeding ticket

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