Week 32 - 2018 in Photographs

Day 217

 I toyed recently with doing a week of at home snaps. But these are at home snaps. My snaps are just different I suppose. Four of this week's photos were taken while standing on my deck. I had to be a bit off the deck to take the rest.

Day 218

 Upon moving into my house in 1998 I discovered I had the gift of dawns through the eastern window. That window is now a doorway into my studio which has four windows and a glass French door which face the same way.

The studio windows

And outside of those windows used to be a small temporary stoop upon which I stood in bare feet to record clouds and dawns. It took years to convert that stoop to the deck I currently enjoy. With a heated door mat so I don't freeze my bare feet in the winter.

The deck also provides space and reasons for container gardens. I have to walk to the far end of the deck to capture the African Daisies which grown in a container. The earth upon which my house, and deck, are built is not good at yielding to shovels so it is containers or raised beds.

Day 219

And the deck looks over the valley of the Little Coyote and a very large fenced yard where I entertain the my friends' dogs. They of course frequently become subjects of my photographs.

Day 220
Lucy, Metta, and Dottie

But the expansive vista of the eastern and southern sky rarely disappoints. I still am enchanted with the dawns and I have always loved clouds. The photo below was a record for my pleasure of some particularly peculiar clouds before a storm. The bird was a bonus.

Day 221

And if you stare at the photograph below and let your creative mind float you will see a huge bird in the clouds.

Day 222

And beside my lower deck, under those four windows of the studio is the hollyhock bed. I have loved hollyhocks since I was a child. The studio wall provides them protection from the winds and they gratefully pose for me in the summer. 

Day 223

Welcome to my snaps from home. BTW on September 29 and 30 my deck and studio will be open for the second annual Angel Fire Studio Tour. My studio is open by appointment most afternoons through the summer, but the studio tour is special. I will have my artist friends Carol Rupp and Judy Kosanovich showing their work too. Note the photo of Judy and Boca was taken on my deck. And of course there will be my work there too.