tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post7377337779002902942..comments2023-05-30T06:26:29.914-04:00Comments on RavenWood Forest: The Salamander is the Dream of WaterValeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-30574085150854938052011-07-22T04:00:22.348-04:002011-07-22T04:00:22.348-04:00How wonderful to have luna moths visit your home, ...How wonderful to have luna moths visit your home, your home amongst the forest has such a restful feel to it. Since we came to live here, tucked almost under the boughs of the forest trees, i am sure i can feel the magic of that place seeping into my bones, and feeding my spirit & bringing me peace too.Ruthie Reddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09544345949078281235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-31529378416110025102011-07-21T07:48:36.584-04:002011-07-21T07:48:36.584-04:00Beautiful post!!! I love how you've connected ...Beautiful post!!! I love how you've connected all the pieces here like an intricate puzzle with Pasha as your wonderful, napping accomplice.<br /><br />Straight lines are such a man-made device and often we seem so concerned with "point A" to "point B" in our working lives. Spirals give us another perspective, time overlapping, parallel - no looking back or towards a finish! Perhaps they are meant to teach us patience or to enjoy the moment? Your spiral paintings also remind me of the rings inside a tree.Medieval Musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489571642135048568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-40557258587306797752011-07-21T07:02:18.440-04:002011-07-21T07:02:18.440-04:00VA- this post just took me into overload - so many...VA- this post just took me into overload - so many images and so many thoughts. Spirals, mushrooms, rings, paintings from days gone by - but the common thread is you on your journey. Continue to enjoy it and thanks for sharing snippets of it. BBarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10059639215109777537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-44818008750626004512011-07-20T11:35:07.292-04:002011-07-20T11:35:07.292-04:00Just magical photographs. A joy to see.
And speak...Just magical photographs. A joy to see.<br />And speaking for myself, I should think to travel a straight line would be incredibly boring!Pamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-84536563651418049442011-07-18T11:12:00.599-04:002011-07-18T11:12:00.599-04:00jude- blurry is somehow very alive for me, like ho...jude- blurry is somehow very alive for me, like how my eye is never really still when I look at things.Valeriannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-53286739458883852932011-07-17T21:11:48.133-04:002011-07-17T21:11:48.133-04:00i love the blurry paintingsi love the blurry paintingsjudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01514075228644109700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-73467803066875810892011-07-16T23:35:05.623-04:002011-07-16T23:35:05.623-04:00Donna Q- I'm quite partial to that photo of te...Donna Q- I'm quite partial to that photo of tea with Pasha!<br /><br />Lynn- I like that... I'm a "wavy line person", of course!<br /><br />Rowan - I remember that about mushrooms from when I lived in Italy. If I remember correctly, there was a mushroom "season". Here, it really all depends on the amount of rain we get in spring, summer and fall - definitely none in winter. <br /><br />Helen - I like your spiral garden path a lot. I have a labyrinth out in the woods a bit, though it never really was entirely completed. Someday I will finish it and spend more time there.... or maybe make it into a spiral path, that might be more fun!<br /><br />Cobalt Violet - Dreaming Woman is cool - not my sculpture, or rather, I didn't make her... Pine Bell Art Farm- some sweet sculptures!<br /><br />Kayla - Its clear to me that you work that way!<br /><br />the wild magnolia - Living with luna moths is something special, but always so fleeting as they don't live long at all. So delicate and enchanting, I wonder at such incredible color....<br /><br />Ramona - yup we had a great run of mushroom days. Its drying out a bit, so they are all starting to fade. They look like melted muck scattered here and there on the forest floor!<br /><br />Swan Artworks - Now that I finally pried open the very sticky windows, I do enjoy the studio again, but until then, I was a bit hot in there!<br /><br />Mary Ann - pondering spirals is a good companion to healing with herbs I think!<br /><br />Tammie Lee - thanks! In the middle of a warm, wonderful weekend working in the garden. <br /><br />Andressa- glad to have you, thanks for the feedback. <br /><br />Stille Linde - Oh, I see it now. I was quite struck by the look on Pasha's face when I took this photo and the unusual color of his eyes - how they look just like the fern. I think I was disturbing something important, so I backed away quickly. I think that dreaming woman might have stepped right out of one of your drawings, don't you?Valeriannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-62806301756973446522011-07-16T23:34:45.570-04:002011-07-16T23:34:45.570-04:00Wayward Harper - Yes, the luna moth is something q...Wayward Harper - Yes, the luna moth is something quite exceptional in this Northern climate, I think! Truly spectacular. <br /><br />Delila - Maybe someday you can see a luna moth - do you have any of those amazing butterfly and moth places in Finland? We have one not too far away that I was utterly amazed when I visited. I was actually a bit ungrounded when I left because I had just spent an hour with hundreds of moths and butterflies from all over the world. It felt like I had spent one hundred years in faery land... it took me a long time to recover!<br /><br />Charlotte - The forest does surely have its own scent - and sometimes it IS coffed when I sit in the garden and I have just dumped coffee grounds in the compost, its coffee-scented for sure! But most of the time its "fresh with hints of musk", or that's how I would describe the scent of the hemlock forest. <br /><br />acornmoon - I think it surely was made just for me!<br /><br />Penny - I do hope it is... and we need a little more warmth here, though I'm not complaining about the lack of hot, hot and humidity... but my vegetables are maturing very slowly this year. <br /><br />The Cranky Crone - Oh I think being wonki is a very good thing!<br /><br />Lunar Hine - And someday I want to visit your rolling moorland... its quite exquisite, too!<br /><br />Mermaid - It is strange for me that somedays its words, somedays its images and patterns...<br /><br />Juliet - Definitely calm, sometimes I MUST go somewhere to have a full-on energetic change! The river is always good for that, or downtown where there are so many people that I am amazed. <br /><br />Steven - yes, definitely what you say about mistakes... surely they are not what we think they are at first glance!<br /><br />Nancy - I do love that Dreaming Woman... It is by a small company called Bell Pine Art Farm. I like many of their sculptures, but LOVE this one. <br /><br />Brooke - I feel the same way about things in the studio... definitely!<br /><br />Velma - I hope you have some lunas next year... what I haven't<br />seen here yet this year is a polyphemus, another incredible moth. I think one might have been bumping into my screen the other night, but I couldn't get a good look. I'm keeping my eyes peeled...<br /><br />Thanks, Trish!<br /><br />Layers - I love circles, too, and especially when they are concentric. Sometimes my spiral drawings are actually a series of concentric circles overlaid. I practice Qigong and used to do Tai Chi. Definitely a lot of circles in both those practices!Valeriannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-29256604455234333572011-07-16T18:32:21.513-04:002011-07-16T18:32:21.513-04:00You touch me deep in my heart, with joy and with p...You touch me deep in my heart, with joy and with power, through everything you show and write here about the crooked, spiraling paths and the springs and the old woman. Best of all is the picture of Pasha having tea with you, what a guest ! a king of the forest !!! :-) On the picture of the catnap he's big friends with the fern on his fur, they're telling each other beautiful mysteries, I can see this. One day Valerianna, when it is time to weed around his throne, you will KNOW that ;-) Thank you for all.barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351962678694417202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-66363949064548494522011-07-16T09:51:20.634-04:002011-07-16T09:51:20.634-04:00Lovely pictures and blog, I will follow you!Lovely pictures and blog, I will follow you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-66942616114245302672011-07-15T18:10:53.481-04:002011-07-15T18:10:53.481-04:00that ring is perfect for you
i would have been tem...that ring is perfect for you<br />i would have been tempted to buy it too<br />so lovely to see your intimate photos of life<br />and your art and words touch my heart<br />lovely weekend to you~Tammie Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09018402134070834516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-8556337622159902262011-07-14T19:33:54.673-04:002011-07-14T19:33:54.673-04:00I've pondered spirals for a long time, waiting...I've pondered spirals for a long time, waiting for mystery to speak to me. Beautiful post and lovely blog. Mary Ann, Healing with Herbs blog http://www.healingwith-herbs.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16183405546933369239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-13669856723201995732011-07-14T18:41:42.504-04:002011-07-14T18:41:42.504-04:00Wise words indeed for any artist to heed and beaut...Wise words indeed for any artist to heed and beautiful images too! Your woodland studio looks very lovely and summery in amongst the flowers, must be a lovely place to work...<br />Thankyou for a very inspiring and peaceful post :)<br />Carrie... :)Windsongs and Wordhoardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12211375575810428500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-45008478626386939662011-07-14T15:54:46.729-04:002011-07-14T15:54:46.729-04:00Wonderful, wonderful images! "lean in close a...Wonderful, wonderful images! "lean in close and look under and through" so many wonderful things to see. The mushrooms are magnificent!!ramonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00615254210131699811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-83211902193400309902011-07-13T14:28:39.782-04:002011-07-13T14:28:39.782-04:00"Learning to walk in the mystery...", to..."Learning to walk in the mystery...", to me denotes action, we keep on moving with focused intention and purpose.<br /><br />Very helpful and insightful post. My spirit needed these words.<br /><br />It has been only a few days since I saw for the first time a Luna Moth. I was enchanted. To live in the land of Luna Moth's is thrilling. To find a Luna Moth would send me into a happy dance of gratitude.<br /><br />Your art work is very spiritual and so beautiful<br /><br />Wonderful photos and sharing!the wild magnoliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355836751549469688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-73596578219927008462011-07-12T17:56:32.033-04:002011-07-12T17:56:32.033-04:00Your images are amazingly beautiful.
I love your s...Your images are amazingly beautiful.<br />I love your spirals and agree that in order for creativity to flow we should not know our destination, just work instinctively.M xMichala Gyetvai (Kayla coo)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05120726257649689149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-52190865653633903122011-07-12T17:29:51.426-04:002011-07-12T17:29:51.426-04:00What an incredible post! Love your spirals. So bea...What an incredible post! Love your spirals. So beautiful and organic.<br />Your photos are so lovely and I love your dreaming woman!Cobalt Violethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12970693193776542493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-37787057866237161812011-07-12T15:41:20.960-04:002011-07-12T15:41:20.960-04:00I wonder if I will ever get to see a Lunar Moth......I wonder if I will ever get to see a Lunar Moth...thank you for sharing the one who chose you, and for a joy~filled stroll through your surroundings. Your ring is perfect. I made a walk~in spiral in our garden a few years ago <br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/stitchwitch/675912118/in/photostream/ <br /><br />we don't have it any more and I miss it.<br />Blessed be Valerianna and Pasha ~helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04412509910451805109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-79968204895462509242011-07-12T06:39:45.585-04:002011-07-12T06:39:45.585-04:00I really love your photographs of the different mu...I really love your photographs of the different mushrooms, flowers and seedheads, they are so beautiful. I suspect the mushrooms this autumn will be scarce here as we've had such a dry spring and summer, I was quite surprised to see that you have so many already, they are mainly a late September/October thing in the UK.Rowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13679130612798888266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-11994675467146389362011-07-12T05:05:13.140-04:002011-07-12T05:05:13.140-04:00At the risk of repeating myself - thank you for an...At the risk of repeating myself - thank you for another beautiful post. Your garden is unreal. I love the photo of Pasha and the encroaching plants. I'm mad for silver rings, and yours is gorgeous. <br /><br />Years ago, a friend of mine (from art class) and I used to think that people were divided into two groups: "straight line people" and "wavy line people" with us, of course, firmly in the latter camp. I have since come to believe that there is no straight path - but that everyone's path winds in different ways. And that fighting one's particular curve, can be frustrating at best.<br /><br />Your spirals are wonderful. And I love seeing the words that are making their way around their perimeters.Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-5053869442259001412011-07-12T03:44:48.731-04:002011-07-12T03:44:48.731-04:00Wow ~ spirals, woodland delights and a tea party w...Wow ~ spirals, woodland delights and a tea party with Pasha! Thanks for a post filled with gorgeousness!Donna~Q~https://www.blogger.com/profile/15516927570570110567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-30901218979314251142011-07-11T18:12:19.916-04:002011-07-11T18:12:19.916-04:00Because we are so unique and different- I find it ...Because we are so unique and different- I find it interesting to see what each of us are so attracted to... for me it is circles-- for you it is spirals-- though they have similarities too.. I used to take Tai Chi and one activity we did sometimes was walk around in a circle that was really a spiral.. and meditate..layershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10991288165260934778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-71255648905149008582011-07-11T14:50:23.702-04:002011-07-11T14:50:23.702-04:00Wow, a beautiful post to read and such beautiful p...Wow, a beautiful post to read and such beautiful photos. Thank you.<br />Much love.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07991672363435843464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-15859106273551735342011-07-11T13:42:54.589-04:002011-07-11T13:42:54.589-04:00i missed lunas this year, but look and look, as yo...i missed lunas this year, but look and look, as you know. the spirals above are very strong.Velma Bolyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12446502295849533888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-88887344951910023392011-07-11T12:43:05.157-04:002011-07-11T12:43:05.157-04:00'some things are emerging, while others have g...'some things are emerging, while others have gone to seed' struck me as perfectly appropriate for how work in my studio goes!<br /><br />and you are so right, artist do walk in circles. the thought is comforting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03456363835248084510noreply@blogger.com