Yesterday, just as the last light eked from the sky, a crack opened on the clouded horizon and lo, sun. The light in the work room shifted dramatically, and every piece of glass took on new color and intensity. I announced that we all must hurry outside and soak up, if only for a single minute, this rare sliver of sun. Grumbles from my compatriots "I'm busy working", but I insisted, and so the three of us tromped out in the mild afternoon where the colors went from this:
to this:
in as long as it took me to shoot the first photo.
Carpe diem.
We spend all day inside working with color, struggling with angles of light from the work lamps, mixing colors on the palette. M. painted a new batch of glass the other night and in daylight all the colors appeared muddy. And then we are given this gift from the universe of less than five minutes of intense natural light, and then it's gone, and we must go back to trying to recreate that in the studio, hoping that some neural pathways in the brain made their infinitesimal chemical connections so that it's not lost to us.
As I sit and type this, the first streaks of the dawn sky appear through the leaf-stripped maples -- a black lacework against blue and pink rays. Need I mention that, once again, I rush outside (this time in nightgown and bathrobe) to soak up yet again those fleeting bits of of the troposphere? The spin of the planet, celestial bodies in motion... Welcome back, Sun. And stick around this time, will ya?
ah, our ever changing troposphere! (love that word). your photos capture the fleeting and brilliant nature of our life-giving star. Must say I am spoiled with it down here in California....I try not to take it for granted.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty photos T.! I love the sunshine and also the fresh air. sp
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Who could paint a sky like that?
ReplyDeleteT., what a lovely, poignant post. To get a glimpse of a paradise of color and then to try to run back and make it out of thin air. Wonderful colors. There ought to be a name for those of us who are completely saturated and in love with color. Is there, do you think?
ReplyDeleteSadly, a photo rarely makes us gasp. Whereas the real thing can be jaw-dropping.
ReplyDeleteGrey skies over southern France... but I prefer that to the bitter cold we experienced recently.
lovely views, T. We have some great light at either end of the days here as well - and we're winning the contest with winter. Greetings from Mayo
ReplyDeleteSean, you've certainly been trounced with the cold temps this winter. Glad to hear you're winning!
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