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Miss Match Diptych Project Week 9

Top image by: LorraineVeronica
Bottom Image by: Jennifer Aitchison

LorraineVeronica's Flicker account is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/raineybean/

Lorraine Veronica was a joy to work with this week and I really appreciated having her as my partner. A very talented and friendly girl.

Marching Into Myself

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marching Onward by: Jennifer Aitchison

Thinking lately of how important it is to March foreword. You always carry the roots of what you have been, and the character and knowledge you have acquired. Still, there is so much room for improvement, and time will not stop and wait for you to catch up. I think there have been times that I stopped marching and watched it all go by. Maybe those moments are a resting point, a period where your life takes a breath. Surely it must not be healthy to stay in that moment for too long. I want to march foreword with strength, even though I am tired. I want to march foreword with confidence, even though I have not been sure of myself in the past. I want to march foreword with a tenderness for what I have been, even though I can see room for improvement.

A Walk in the Freezing Fog by Jennifer Aitchison

Hepatica

At Last

I love wildflowers. Every spring I get to know them a little bit more. The very first flowers of our season are just starting to rise from the ground in the forest. Here are photographs I have taken this week of the Hepatica flower. The first is titled "At Last" and can be found in my photography shop www.jenniferaitchison.etsy.com

In case you were wondering ...

Hepatica - genus of spring wildflowers of buttercup family Ranunculaceae; leaves three-lobed (in shape of human liver) and remain green all winter; delicate blue, purple, pink, or white flowers on short, hairy stems; grow to 3 in. tall; native to woods of eastern North America; also grown in Europe and Asia. Hepatica is named from its leaves, which, like the human liver (Greek hepar), have three lobes. It was once used as a medicinal herb. Owing to the doctrine of signatures, the plant was thought an effective treatment for liver disorders. Although poisonous in large doses, the leaves and flowers may be used as an astringent, demulcent for slow-healing injuries and as a diuretic.

Hanging out with Yellow Tulips

Tulips are one of my favorite flowers to keep in a vase on my table.  I love their long stems and their beautiful leaves and the way they seem to  almost breathe as they are following the sunshine around the room.  Here are some photographs that I took over a couple of days. I hope you enjoy them.  If you click on the title it will take you directly to my photography store.

A Tulip Conversation

The Companionship of Tulips

Miss Tulip Take a Bow

Migration

"MIGRATION - directed, regular, or systematic movement of a group of objects, organisms, or people"

I keep seeing all these beautiful birds moving through the sky and I think, hey, I need a migration. Maybe I do not need a migration, but instead a vacation because I do not think I actually want a directed route. Anyway, back to the birds, they are so fascinating to me. I want to stop them as they move North and ask where they are from, offer them a cup of birdseed, listen to their stories. I keep watching for the ones who will not live here but are just passing through. My favorites are the Sandhill cranes. I have heard their very familiar song four different times this Spring and have not been lucky to see them yet. It's ok though, still nice to hear them. Has anyone else heard or seen them? 

Jack Pine in Spring

This is my most recent listing in my Photography shop. Our area on the Southern tip of Lake Michigan has the most far south reaching Jack Pine trees. They were left here by glaciers as they melted and receded North. Their cones need fire to open. These trees seem to be so awkward to me yet balanced, maybe that is why I think they are so beautiful.

Lemons and Blogs

A pair of Lemons 

Blogging, Oh what fun! 

Just a quick note to say I was featured in two blogs today. They are both so very beautiful, I wanted to share.  Run Alice Run is a beautiful blog that featured my softening storm photograph. She has two etsy shops where she sells  the coolest magnets and buttons and mirrors and wedding favors. Really cute stuff! 

I especially love these of course:

click on image to go to Piping Hot Papers

The other blog I just found myself in is pasaii design studio . My "A Pair of Lemons" photograph is there with some other gorgeouse lemons.  She also has two etsy shops featureing her fantastic illustrations on wedding invitations, stationary, jewelry, fine art prints ect....

This Cardinal collection for weddings is so cute:

Click here to go to Pasaii Paperie

While on the Subject of lemons, here is my other recent lemon photo titled "Lemons on Blue"

A couple of bright yellow lemons on my grandmother's china is a great way to push out the winter grays, so I tried to capture this little burst of color in my life. 

Lemons on Blue