tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918588217246080282012-02-14T12:43:58.259-05:00This is a blog to showcase my art and my thoughts. I create digital fake cars, fine art utilizing antique photograph, paint, and vintage wood, and write about my history placing it all in context with everything around me.casey/a r t a n d c o l o u rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15654097774209894695noreply@blogger.comBlogger9291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491858821724608028.post-46611133125555181622012-02-14T11:26:00.001-05:002012-02-14T11:32:24.980-05:00

Just after posting this on the blog, I realized the video is too wide for Blogger's format. This video isn't available in a narrower width, so for a better view of it, please click over to Youtube for the full view. Sorry 'bout that. You can see him a bit in this video, though, lol, so I'll leave it up for its "newsworthiness!" One of the bird lovers that have visited Pink Gardens this winter

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I recently found this cardboard print behind a circa 1920 framed photo. I believe originally it was just a novelty item, a small print of a pretty girl. At some point, the print was cut at the bottom to fit a small gold metal frame and she became the background cardboard "filler" for a photo of my grandmother. R. C. Co., N. Y., The Home Girl, 1978, is printed along the bottom. I'm guessing "1978"

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"Even Martians Love Halloween" R E M E M B R A N C E — My town used to hold a Halloween Window Painting contest every fall when I was growing up. It was usually one chilly late October Saturday morning, and the paintings, done on the store windows around our town green, would stay up for a week or so. I won First Prize 5-6 years in a row, every year I was eligible. I have to say though, that I

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One of the greatest singers of modern times has died, Ms. Whitney Houston. I rode in an elevator with her once back in the early '90s, at a posh New York hotel, the Parker Meridien. For all of perhaps two minutes, I was standing next to greatness. She was having a heated argument with a friend, lol. I was trying to pretend I wasn't there, but she was staying at the penthouse, and I was only one

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M Y   C O L L E C T I O N — Froggy the Gremlin first "appeared" in 1944 in the Buster Brown Gang, a radio show by "Smiling Ed McConnell," and went on to TV fame starting in 1950 with the same host. Today, my Rempel produced 5-inch Froggy spends his retirement years hanging out, literally, on a wall, with all of my other collectible creatures, including Wishnik trolls, antique dolls of all sorts,

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One Nice Snowy Day in January 2005  We may get an "accumulating" snow this weekend, and perhaps another one next week, but so far, we haven't had any more than an occasional dusting of snow since Halloween's surprise storm. I'm fine with that! It makes walking to town so much easier and safer! I thought I would post these 7 year old photos of a "real" winter, and I just hope I'm not inviting

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 I'm not sure what the context of this photo is . . . It's from the mid 1950s, which would place it in Germany, as my father was stationed in Stuttgart until 1960—where I was born in 1957. I'm guessing it must have been a fundraiser or charity event of some sort. I didn't superimpose anything on the image, all the scratches and discolorations are on the original. I'm not quite sure what the guy

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Waiting for TimeMy latest pieces hanging out waiting for me to find time to finish them. One of my recently refurbished "Not Wrapped Too Tightly" footstools keeps them company. No Dull DaysNovelty postcard from his area of town, Leete's Island (Leete Island on the card), dated October 1917, was sent to my grandfather by his cousin. My grandfather was at an Army training camp getting ready to

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 I recently found this photo (again) in a box of belongings I'm going through. There is no date on the image, but my mother was born in 1918, so I'm guessing she's in her early 20s here, ca 1940. It's a color photo, but which faded and was retouched at some point with watercolors. I also adjusted the colors in Photoshop to match the original as my scanner always adds a bit of cyan to an image. I

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Camera Before Coffee—I woke up uncharacteristically early today, and caught the bright eastern sun making these dark red curtains absolutely glow. Silhouetted, hiding their flaws, this sad geranium and tradescanthia are struggling to make it through to the spring until they can move outdoors, and thrive, once again.  

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Not found anywhere near Pink Gardens! My friend Bette shot these photographs of a Madrona tree (Arbutus menziesii) at the beach near her house in Seattle. I'd never heard of this species before she sent me the pics—apparently they're only found on the northwest coast—Washington, Oregon, Vancouver. It's gorgeous, ain't it! For the Wiki on them, click here. Wonderful abstract created by peeling

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 My longtime friend Bette, now living in Seattle for the past 15 years or so, sent me this beautiful photo of the fuschia on her deck. It snowed last week in Seattle, and she has a few flowers blooming already. I love the way the snow and ice are clinging to the petals. The soft focus of the background really allows the subject to be the star.Bette's Walking the Dog blog, and her ScooPup pocket,

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One will dry up and blow away. The other will just dry up. They'll both be soon gone.  A bit of fence along the boardwalk in the center of town.  Composite of stems and seedpods silhouetted in the snow. Lighting levels due to clouds and shadows and time of day.  Railings at the Post Office.  Old Glory's rippling reflection in the icy slush of Tuxis Pond. Snow and Nature's Slushies along the

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Everywhere I looked today I saw patterns, cropped abstract patterns in the sidewalks, and roads full of snow, slush and sludge. This arrow painted in the street points the way in . . . I clearly wasn't the first walker today. A cast-iron cover on the sidewalk. "Bell System" around the phone company's centered logo. Sneakers and snowy sidewalks. Of course! Tire treads and sanding-soil melting on

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 Shrub, whose name escapes me, sitting pretty in the snow in a pedestrian plaza. The red seedpods are especially attractive against the green leaves and white fence and snow. Giddyup! Small horse sculpture in town, seems ready to enjoy himself in the newly fallen snow.  Almost eerie, this new bridal shop in town, Everthine Bridal Boutique, located in an early colonial-era house, has ethereal

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 Winterberries and snow. Nothing says New England winter better! Well, it had to happen eventually. We're in the middle of our first snowstorm of the season, if you don't count the freak blizzard on Halloween. I'm going to go for a walk soon, but so far, I've only ventured as far as the porch. It's cold and windy and really snowing—almost whiteout conditions every once in a while. We only have

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It was just reported that Etta James has died. I was introduced to her music more than 25 years ago by my late friend, Andy, and have loved it ever since. Ms. James had a rough time of it with leukemia, dementia and other illnesses for several years. It's my wish that she and Andy are sitting on one of Saturn's rings right now, with all the rest of the fabulous people no longer among us,

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 Poking their spring leaves, and buds, through the sun-drenched soil at the beach, these daffodils are at least 2-3 months early! It's January, folks! I can only imagine that our lack of snow this winter, our fairly balmy days, and this rock facing due south sheltering the bulbs and reflecting the sunlight onto the soil, combined to give these daffies an early start. A very early start! We will

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Hands Across the Sea—This piece is 36 inches X 20 inches and is painted on two antique chestnut floorboards, complete with knothole in the lower plank. The images are all World War 1 era, consisting of postcards, photographs and even stamps. Superimposed flowers are from digital photos of my gardens. After the images were laid down, there are several layers of thin painted stripes and a few

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 One Life to Live's opening banner, 1968. Oy. Just checked the electronic TV guide for the synopsis of today's One Life to Live—completely forgetting the soap opera ended it's more than 40-year run last Friday. My favorite soap, All My Children, ended in September, and now the Buchanans et al are gone from the small screen. RIP, OLTL, 1968-2012. I've watched soaps since the mid 1960s when I sat

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"Respect Starts at Home"—Portrait of my grandmother and a friend, circa 1923, 16" x 32" on hardwood. Among other details, the "checkerboard" consists of thirteen horizontal rows and thirteen vertical rows. Each row of white squares has one, and only one, differently, and uniquely, colored square in it. Those squares may be different from their neighbors but they all work together to make a

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 Well, it's not exactly the deep, solid red that the box indicated it would be, it will only have three blossoms instead of the customary four, its soil came "planted" with thousands of tiny fruit fly-type gnats, and it's three weeks after its promised Christmas blooming date, but other than that, my 2012 Amaryllis is beautiful, lol. Sitting outside on my plaid-painted porch rocker for a

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My Chinese Evergreen plant, Aglaonema, can be traced back more than fifty years. This was my grandmother's plant, and I remember it as a child in her front hallway. She died in 1969 and by the early 1980s when my aunt Hoohoo died, it had seen better days. I brought it home and took it out of the dirt and placed it in water to strengthen the roots—where it sat for more than TWENTY years. With my

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 2013 MKZ concept vehicle just shown in Detroit—the first fastback Lincoln since the 1949 Cosmopolitan Town Sedan! The glass roof, arched roofline, full width taillights and letterspaced L-I-N-C-O-L-N on the trunklid were previewed on my MKE below. What I don't "get" on this car, is the matte black panel below the rear window on the trunklid. I 'm guessing it's supposed to make the rear window

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 With the exception of a few details, the just-released Acura NSX concept looks exactly like the rendering I was commissioned to do for Automotive News last month! I checked out almost every car magazine I could find at the time, and now that I've seen the real car, above, I really have to say that my rendering was the closest of any of them. Working with Mark Rechtin, the AN editor that attended

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2013 Cadillac ATS, revealed today for the North American International Automobile Show in Detroit next week. Official press photo, above, B R E A K I N G   N E W S — The production version of Cadillac's new small car, the ATS has been revealed. This is Caddy's rear wheel drive BMW 3-series fighter. Rendered earlier in the year for Automobile magazine, I used Cadillac's Platinum concept for the

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The vast majority of seashells you'll find on New England beaches are white, or off-white—it's probably the same throughout the world. I've been drawn to the iridescent orange and yellow ones since I was a child, though. They tend to be smaller, harder to find, and "prettier" to use the term I used as a child. Above, shells collected on my past few walks along the beach. I hadn't picked them up

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© Jerry Connolly 2012 B I R D   W A T C H I N G — Behold, the yellow throated Warbler! Supposedly a Southeastern Warbler, not venturing up north to Connecticut (especially in Winter!), this pretty little bird has joined the "feed lines" at Pink Gardens. June, fantastic friend and co-resident of our large 19th century home, is an avid and experienced life-long bird watcher. She was certain this

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M Y   A R T — I've begun the "painting and papering" phase of my next series and thought I'd post a few of the works-in-progress, or WIPs, as the kids say, lol. These are all of my "trademarked" cardboard quilt construction. The pre-cut cardboard squares are assembled in three overlapping layers for strength and texture. I'm covering these base layers with pre-printed patterned paper that was

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Madison's Sculpture Mile includes this very enthusiastic hand stander! I walk past this amusing sculpture almost every day, and I have to admit, it makes me walk just a little bit faster and just a little bit farther!   Note: I just realized it was lame of me not to find out the name of the sculptor of this piece. I'll walk over on Monday and report back! Harry & David's Pears were a holiday

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 Stark early morning winter shadows pattern this 19th century portrait of one of my great-great-granduncles. Click on the image to enlarge—it's cool the way the shadows frame his eyes (I think you need to click twice these days to see it full size, or perhaps click on "open in new window." Blogger keeps changing their image formats). The original frame and matting are quite damaged from an almost

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And in which my family lived for more than 200 years Yesterday I was taken to lunch by a friend in Guilford, the town I grew up in, settled in 1639. It's next door to where I live now, but I rarely walk or ride my bike the 8-9 miles to get there. It's an absolutely gorgeous, classic New England town. I forget how much I miss it until I go there. Madison is pretty, and it's a really nice town—I'm

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Last week, in time for Christmas, a fabulous gift package arrived from Sharon Springs, New York. Readers that watch the "Green" Network on cable, might be familiar with that town—it's the home of the Fabulous Beekman Boys, Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge! Their restored farmhouse, er, mansion, is called the Beekman Mansion, after the original owners of the property, and the guys have created

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Though she no longer sits at the top of a Christmas tree for two weeks every year, this German angel has been keeping watch in my family since the mid 1950s. I leave her out year-round, and she now adorns the cone-shaped metal "horn" of my Edison Gem cylinder record player. She keeps company with the seated china-doll to the right, dating to the 1890s. That little vintage doll wears a

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My friend Mary stopped by the other day with this gorgeous stem of orchids. This variety, 'though I can't remember the name, is my favorite. I love the pale chartreuse and deep maroon color combination, and the stems and flowers are so large and hearty looking! I loved the choice of wrapping and ribbon, too. This palm plant is really doing well since I brought it in for the winter. It's actually

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Front Page! My commissioned rendering of Acura's upcoming NSX sportscar was featured on the front page of Detroit's Automotive News last week. Due to be shown at the Detroit International Auto Show in a couple of weeks, I worked with an editor at the newspaper to render this V6, hybrid, mid-engined sportscar from his recollection of a press briefing. It was a great experience. I first wrote about

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Just one of my candid shots from a walk near the beach the other day. Without realizing it at the time, I was shooting a lot of "scenics" that day, this shot really reminds me of family Christmases of the past. My mother always decorated with pine boughs and cones, nestling them into flower boxes outside, and along shelves and cabinets and tables inside, She also had a little glass vase with a

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2011's Winter Solstice occurs just after midnight tonight, 12:35 EST, but I'm not sure if that means today is the shortest or tomorrow, lol. At any rate, the days will VERY soon become longer. YES! I know Winter hasn't even begun yet, but I know now that Spring is just 8-12 weeks away, a time I can start walking around outside and see which of the perennials have made it through the winter and

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Frequent visitors at Pink Gardens, a family of white tail deer stop by almost every afternoon foraging for leaves and nuts and berries. Their "posse" consists of mom and three offspring.  The young ones are almost the size of adults now—this is one of the youngsters daring me to take her photo! As usual in my life, I took the dare. Showing her eponymous white tail as she bolts off to join her

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The other day while I was walking on the beach, I noticed "human" footprints weren't the only ones in the sand. There were thousands of little "clawprints" from seagulls and other water birds. The more I looked at them, the more they started looking like cave paintings to me... Long December afternoon shadows create lunar landscapes in some of the photos. Some of the little bird footprints also

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Sometimes finding art in your home just requires looking up—right now. Shadows cast by window frames and a pot of rosemary sitting next to a geranium, create a wonderful abstract on these white walls. Mirrors and a door frame add anchoring angles to the "frame"area of this shot, holding the ephemeral shadows in place. The highlights of the glass soar right off the top of the photo lending a

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I have probably posted these Photoshopped floral images before, but it's a dull, dreary, December day, and I wanted to see some color. The photos I've been taking lately are dull and dreary, too. I think it's time to brighten up the joint a bit. These images are digital "quilts" made from flowers I've grown or have been given, art pieces I've created, and fabrics and homemade afghans I've scanned

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Typical front page of the Automotive News, a Detroit-based newspaper and website. Shameless Self-Promotion Part 99—Late last week I was contacted by an editor of the Automotive News, a Crain publication. He had seen my cars at Peter De Lorenzo's Autoextremist, an "inside Detroit" website known to my loyal readers for often featuring my cars. The AN editor wondered if I could do a rendering for

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This photo, taken by my father, is dated 1943, so it's a couple of years after Pearl Harbor, but it shows just how young the brave American soldiers that fought in the war, really were. This is below decks, in the engine room of a destroyer.  December 7th, 2011—Today is the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the beginning of the United States' involvement in World War Two. According

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Without leaves on the trees, this huge wasps' nest was revealed. It's high up in this tree, but is probably eighteen-inches from top to bottom. Growing up, my aunt Hoohoo had a paper wasp nest like this and used it as a decoration in one of her guest rooms. I have no idea how she retrieved it originally, and made sure it was empty, but it was a fascinating conversation piece. Without leaves, the

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Although the official starting date for winter is a few weeks away, I've noticed that the annual winter "lighting" has arrived. The sun is now lower in the sky at all times, hardly illuminating the backyard clothes line in the afternoon. Without leaves on the trees, more light reaches into the thickets and without the filtering of the tree canopy, shadows are harsher. Trees around Pink Gardens'

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Trending for perhaps ten years now, these ornamental cabbages have become as much a New England fall tradition as "hairdo" mums, pots of tiny peppers, pumpkins and gourds. "Planted" in hay and straw, these pumpkins and crysanthemums bring some color to a downtown sidewalk. This variety is much frillier than the others in this post. This brass bell is more than one hundred years old, and sits in a

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On my daily walks, I usually pick a "theme" to photograph that day, for example, rocks, trees, leaves, abstracts, houses, cars, wildflowers and the like. It gives me a focus and makes each walk around town just a bit different from the last. Above, a nice windy day created whitecaps as the waves neared the shoreline. The sounds of seagulls and the rushing waves was trance-inducing. These

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Happy Thanksgiving! This 18th century secretary has seen more than two-hundred years of Thanksgivings come and go. Many of its contents have seen at least one-hundred turkey days. And some have been around for only those November feasts during my lifetime. No matter how many Thanksgivings you've enjoyed in the past, no matter how many trials and tribulations we've all had this past year—I know

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The very definition of a "blush of pink." This late September hydrangea showed colors ranging from the most subtle to the most distinctive. Staring up into the trees...  ... or staring down into the pavement. I find so much beauty everywhere. These shadows remind me of a small boulder in my childhood home's yard which had a fossilized fern in it. Adele's Chasing Pavements here. A very pretty blue

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Greens, yellows and reds are all highlighted by the blue sky in these autumn trees. These photographs will all look much better when clicked on to enlarge! A light fall snow on a wooden boardwalk exaggerates late afternoon shadows and footprints. Seaweed and algae growing on these shoreline tidepools take on an almost primordial appearance. One can almost see original life beginning here.

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The past few days have been cloudy, cold and rainy. Yechhh! I needed to see something a bit brighter today, and this pink zinnia from just two months ago in my garden, fits the bill!

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I've been practicing my pizza skills lately. Above, one of my better efforts from a few days ago—a cheese-only tomato pie with homemade Marinara sauce, recipe below. I bought this non-stick pizza pan a few weeks ago at a local discount store. I think it was $2.00! I originally bought it to use in my new art projects, as a stencil. The evenly spaced circular holes were too graphic to pass up. But

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Starting off with an "odd" for this post, I found this little slightly-worse-for-the-wear doll by the side of the road the other day in a very posh neighborhood, an uncommon sight for sure. I'm guessing it probably fell out of a car passing by, and someone propped it up against this stone wall so that, hopefully, it would be found. She seems to be waiting patiently although I wouldn't be

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11/11/11, 11:11.11 am—Today is Veteran's Day, 2011. My dad served in the U.S. Navy from 1938-50 and the U.S. Army from 1950-59, being in both World War II and the Korean Conflict. This is a photo on my piano of my Dad from the early 1950s. Take a little time today to remember all of our men and women that have worn the uniform in the service of our country. I especially thank our gay soldiers,

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Long time, and very loyal, reader, TampaGranny emailed me to let me know she had a little mishap at home recently, but was recovering. Here's one of my favorite dahlias from a couple of years ago to cheer her up. I know all of casey/artandcolour loyalists wish her a speedy recovery. Get Well Soon, TG!

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A couple of weeks ago, I noticed this cool combination of shadows and reflections on one of Madison's historical homes, the Deacon John Graves home, 1681. How many eyes have peered from this window through the centuries? What did they see? Whose return were they awaiting? What did they think about, personally and about the news of the day? How many blizzards and hurricanes were viewed through

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Despite all odds—sub-freezing nighttime temperatures and our freak snowstorm last week—this spring violet is still blooming. Though only about 1/2-inch in width, this purple beauty caught my eye on my walk around town today, nestled in the grass next to a parking lot. This brave Rudbeckia, or Black-eyed Susan, is still blooming, although the cold evenings have narrowed its petals.  Even a Gerbera

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Delicate shadows from a Rosemary plant dance on the tops of toadstools. All photos are clickable thumbnails. DAILY PHOTOS—I've been shooting hundreds of photos on my daily walks these past few months. Sometimes I set a "theme" for the photos that day—homes, flowers, shadows, rocks—and sometimes I just take a shot of anything that catches my eye. Today, I'll post the first of a series of shadow

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Spotted parked in town last week was this beautiful Laguna Blue 1966 Corvette Sting Ray. I saw it quite a few times this past summer, but this was the first time it was stationary. The owner had just gotten out of it, and I asked him if he minded if I took some photos. Telling me "Sure!" I was comfortable enough to get these shots from every angle. What a beauty, and the best part is that it's a

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Madison's "Sea, Shop and Scare" Annual ContestMy town's annual scarecrow contest has been going strong for a couple of weeks. I photographed these colorful, and creative, creations last week on a beautiful 70° day. The contest is sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce, and is entitled Sea, Shop and Scare. The contest benefits the chamber and our town library. I'm surprised at the expressions

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Garden Globe is a bit iced over this morning. Click images to enlarge. Who knew dahlias could withstand a light snow and two nights of below-freezing temperatures? A bit of ice still clings to the top of this dahlia bloom. Take me in! Vintage pink flamingo is unfamiliar with its current milieu. Nasturtiums also seem immune to the current weather. I transplanted the geraniums from these planters

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First snow of the fall/winter season—October 29th, 2011. Large, almost tortilla-sized snowflakes appear as streaks in this shot of the front yard. Still-green and fairly lush perennials and shrubs contrast with the raw 30° temperatures and slushy precipitation. The actual Nor'easter snowstorm is supposed to hit tonight between 8pm and 4am. Joy of joys!Ryan Hanrahan's Saturday morning update.  Map

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My quick chop of a '68 Cadillac with a fastback roofline has been picked up by Hemmings Motor News Blog this weekend. I've been reading Hemmings, and their collectible car magazines, Special Interest Autos and now Hemmings Classic Cars, since 1973. It's really cool to see a car creation of mine posted there. Thanks to Dan Strohl and Hemmings!More on this chop at my car blog. More about Hemmings

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Fluffy white clouds reflected perfectly in Tuxis Pond in the center of town. Not a ripple, frog or turtle is disrupting the smooth surface allowing the sky to be seen below, as well as above, me. The lack of wind is evident in the unfurled flag's reflection, seen in the lower right. Just a few autumn leaves to give away the season. The deep blue sky, the deep blue man-made pond. Clouds of Another

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Whoosh!A flash of bright orange—there it is again! A late 1960s Porsche has taken up residence in town. I've seen it a few times near the shore, and the other day I was finally able to get a photo of it. Well, half a photo of it as it whooshed past me. I'm not sure if it's a 911 or 912 yet, but  it looks exactly like loyal reader Artichoke Annie's long-lost car, right down to the chrome wheels.

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Autumn Sumac Points Towards the Coming Winter ColdLooking like a spooky feather-covered arm pointing towards the coming frigid winter season, this Sumac tree is changing to almost every color of the autumn palette. Reds, purples, oranges, yellows and a bit of green—all present and accounted for. I always forget about my little purple New York aster, lol. I don't notice it until fall when it

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The sky reflected in a shallow pond, burnished autumn leaves dropping and floating and marsh grasses weaving and swirling in the water... all contribute to this abstract scene. Seen from the boardwalk shortcut I take into the middle of town everyday. Box turtles galore live here, and it's a rare day when careless debris and environmental toss-aways aren't littering this bit of beauty. I'm amazed

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Casey/Artandcolour Soars Over 150,000 Page Views Celebratory balloons all around for my loyal readers! This little ol' blog, which I started about 20 months ago, has hit a milestone in page views I never thought it would—150,000 hits. My second blog, casey/artandcolour_cars, has recorded more than 15,000 hits by itself. I thank everyone from the very bottom of my very humble heart—and a big

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Today is GLAAD's Spirit Day, a day to fight the bullying our LGBT youth face everyday, a day to wear purple and support the idea that words and images matter. As a child, I was bullied at school without mercy, and it wasn't until I reached Vassar that I realized life didn't have to be like that. The damage was done though, and throughout my entire life I've fought the effects of that childhood

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During my daily walks, I don't just see fellow walkers and runners. I see a lot of other "friends" along the way. This black cat, above, likes to sit on that stone wall in front of his/her mansion. Talk about Halloween decorations! A few of these photos were shot from a distance so please forgive the poor resolution! We have frequent deer sightings at Pink Gardens. This female white tail is on

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The day I shot this photo, the wind was so strong that these seagulls were hanging stationary in the air. Every few seconds they adjusted their wings, headed into the air, and just floated on the air currents above my head. I wanted to soar with them!

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Yesterday late afternoon, the setting sun really colored these trees around the pond in the center of town. They're beginning to change to their autumn shades anyway, but the strong golden sun brightened them dramatically. There was not even the slightest breeze to ripple the water, either. Lily pads, their flowers long gone, adorn the edges of the pond in the photo, above. Small trees and shrubs

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Beautiful double peach-colored Hibiscus flowering beside a grouping of pretty pale yellow wicker chairs. This setting is in front of a small boutique in the town center. The colors really compliment each other. A touch of purple Ageratum at the bottom anchors the garden nicely. OCTOBER 11, 2011—As I've mentioned before on the blog, I've been walking a lot lately, 2-3 hours every day. I bring my

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No, they didn't find any striped socks and ruby slippers under this house, and it's being raised, not falling to the ground. Welcome to the post "Tropical Storm" Irene scene along this picturesque stretch of beach houses in my town. This is one of the houses that was most damaged during the late August storm. Apparently the homeowners have decided to raise their entire house almost a full level,

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Large trees are still washing up on the shoreline, post-Tropical Storm Irene. Driftwood has long been one of the muses of shoreline artists. While floating debris such as these trees is very dangerous while in the water, once they wash up, they're quite beautiful. Click on images to enlarge.

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My zinnias and dahlias are still flowering pretty well. Temperatures in the low forties last night, and perhaps high thirties tonight, should be no problem, and this weekend we should see low eighties by Sunday afternoon. I hope we have at least another month before a frost!

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(image courtesy Apple homepage) Steve Jobs, founder and creative genius of Apple, has died. My condolences go out to his family and friends. I've been using a Macintosh since 1985, and have owned several during these intervening 26 years. I can't imagine my life without one, as all of my art is originally conceived on a Mac in one way or another, and this blog is brought to you via my Mac. We

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The other late afternoon I was in my bedroom reading—a very small room with two large windows. I noticed the light streaming in through those windows kept changing intensity and the shadows cast by my various belongings kept changing as well. I propped myself up and looked outside and was greeted by these "Cecil B. DeMille" clouds as the sun was setting. I was mesmerized and shot about 25 photos

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A beautiful peachy-yellow rose in front of a local gourmet deli and pizzaria. They're growing in front of a picket fence and every photo of them looks like a magazine cover! Although Autumn has arrived, I still have a few tomatoes ripening on their plants. Above, Brandywines, slowly turning their trademark pinkish red color. My dahlias are still blooming as well. Dahlias like cooler weather, so

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Although there were early rumors that pumpkins would be quite rare this fall, due to Irene's flooding and wind damage to local farms, these bright orange gourd-like members of the squash family have arrived at every plant nursery and grocery store. Seen growing on the side of the road, right next to the Amtrak railroad tracks, and actually on Amtrak property, these yellow fall Mulleins are quite

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Phew! I'm glad I left these plants in this planter. I wasn't even sure they were actual flowers until last week, and have been rewarded with these pretty, light purple Asters. This photo of the ceramic pot full of lush green leaves, above, ran in the blog on July 2nd. At the time, I knew I had planted a marigold in the center of it, but couldn't remember what the majority of leaves around it

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1933 Continental Flyer, as it wins Second Place at the Glenmoor Gathering of Significant Automobiles. Barry and Glynette Wolk, owners. The final tally for 2011—Four. Featured in four car shows this season, this beautiful little car took home four trophies! This Continental Flyer won second place in the Hagerty Youth Judging at the Concourse of America, formerly Meadow Brook; second place at the

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When is a Ham a Bird? Walking along the shore the other day, I noticed this seagull keeping pace with me, about 50 feet out in the Sound. If I stopped, he swam in circles until I started walking again, and then he'd swim in the direction I was walking. The zoom function on my camera isn't the greatest, but I was able to fairly decently capture this classic North American Herring Gull. Once I took

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If you click on the image, "Baby Bunny" will look up. I've made my first (very rudimentary) animated gif file, lol! This is Zsa Zsa, Pink Gardens' littlest mascot. She showed up this spring as a teeny tiny baby bunny, and has become almost tame, even as she has grown to almost full size. She tended to arrive at happy hour, while we were sitting outside eating or enjoying an afternoon beverage,

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As my faithful readers know, I like to find beauty in the everyday scenes most people walk by. Now I'm not saying most people lack the "beauty gene" that allows them to see what I see, just that most people have such busy lives that they just don't take a moment and look around at their surroundings. Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene's damage has been pretty much cleared from most yards and of

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Earlier this week I took a walk around town with my camera. Though the growing season is coming to an end, and Irene definitely took its toll along the shore, many homes' gardens were still quite colorful. Above, a beautiful salmon-colored rose. Wild Asters along the side of the road. There is a lavender variety as well as this bright white version, blooming this time of year. Pink tea roses

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Every Friday afternoon during the summer and early autumn, there is a small farmer's market on my town green. There are 8-10 booths, with organic vegetables, wild seafood, free-range poultry and beef, fresh fruits, baked goods, cheeses, flowers, soaps and the occasional hand-made items. I'm partial to the soaps and vegetables and there are some good buys once in a while. Some of the produce is

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As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, Thursday afternoon I noticed a lot of very large morning glory buds on these two vines. Despite temperatures in the low 40s last night, I awakened Friday morning to a sea of blue. I found 18-20 bright blue morning glories all blossoming at the same time. Usually these two plants on the west side of the vegetable garden have only four or five, maybe six,

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Just a corner of my livingroom/studio. I have "no problem" with hanging vintage toys, dolls and cardboard box tops, along with my paintings and assembled artwork. I find three-dimensional pieces hanging on a wall very eye-catching and attractive. The butterfly is a child's pull-toy. When it rolls along on the floor, the tin multicolored wings flap up and down. I believe it's from the 1930s,

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At the risk of being boring, the coverage of my flowers, as the season [unfortunately] winds down, continues today!  Sun Records—Our three sunflower plants have given off more than fifteen flowers so far—a record for us—and I swear every single blossom has been a bit different than the rest. This latest one has very thin petals and a small center. No doubt the petals will unfurl and fill out more

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This is the second dahlia variety to bloom this year, Hissy Fitz. It's a really thick, frilly, bright yellow dahlia that's almost a perfect globe shape when all the petals are unfurled. It's like having pom-poms waving in the garden every time I go out there! The flowers are approximately 5 inches wide. These dahlias are the ones I bought earlier this spring from a table in front of a house in

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When the wild thistles—which I cultivate and move into my flower beds—are done with their lovely purple flowers, the resultant seed pods break down into these crazy looking clusters of fluff. Each seed is attached to those very light, feathery appendages, which catch the wind and blow all over the yard, ensuring the thistle's continued existence the next year. In the spring, I spend a few months

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One of these days I'm going to use my degree in music composition and write a piece called, The Morning Glory Blues. It will rival Basin Street Blues, though sadly, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong won't be able to record it for me! On the other hand, these morning glories make me very happy, so I'll probably have to wait until the dead of winter to try and write a blues song about them. I

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Ten Years Ago Today, The World Changed Forever Located on our town green is this small, unassuming memorial to Dianne Bullis Snyder, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, September 11, 2001. Dianne's plane was the first to hit the World Trade Center, the North Tower, at 8:46 am. Her parents live in town, Dianne grew up here, graduated from our local high school, and lived here most

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This is a good example of the size difference between the pink and blue morning glories. The pink variety is only about 2/3 the size of the blue. but are much more prolific bloomers—there are 20 pink flowers for every blue. They all shrivel up by 10am so I have to get up early (for me!) to take these photos. This zinnia came in the same 6-pack as the one in the post below. They were all labeled

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My Jack-in-the-Pulpit's seed pods have turned completely red now. I love this plant in all of its forms—spring, summer and fall. Small Zinnia, not quite fully unfurled, presents a pinwheel of colors to the world, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. Jetstar tomatoes, almost ready for the pickin'. I started this Angelwing Begonia last year by rooting (propagating) a single leaf from my

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In the immortal words of Seinfeld's George Costanza, "The sea was angry that day, my friends." Sunday, August 28, 2:30 pm—The tailwinds of Hurricane Irene. This is East Wharf, the beach I use. The storm surge was about 6-8 feet, and you could actually see the difference in the horizon and landfall area. Notice the waves reaching the attic level of these beach houses. Click to enlarge. The wooden

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Oh yeah, electric light! The lights are on, again! After six days without electricity, Pink Gardens is ablaze once again. Well, it's noon, so it's not any brighter that it normally is, lol, but by tonight, I'm going to put on every light in every room. Just because I can. I'm so tired of hunkering down with a flashlight rigged to a floor lamp so I can read until my eyes get blurry—about an hour!

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