THE WINDS OF FATE

One ship drives east another drives west

With the selfsame winds that blow.

'Tis the set of the sails

And not the gales

Which tells us the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,

As we voyage along through life:

'Tis the set of a soul

That decides its goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Mail Art 4x6

 

ATCsforALL Art Group 

Picture Profile made for KESager

A Day of Relaxing

 

Just relaxing after a hard day swimming.

Photograph by Ranie Patirids

Camera Coolpix 8800 

Mail Art 4x6

 

Picture Profile made for Cheeka 

Foggy Morning

 

It was a foggy morning over the Erwing Reservoir as 3 branches dance in the eerie light.

Photography by Ranie Pagtridis

Camera: Coolpix 8800 

Mail Art 4x6

I am in a group over at ATCsforALL we are making picture profiles. It is fun! I enjoy making them and receiving them from others. It is nice to see what our fellow Artist look like. ..*smile*..

 

Made for Artsygemini 

JUDGED BY THE COMPANY ONE KEEPS

    One night in late October,

When I was far from sober,

Returning with my load with manly pride,

My feet began to stutter,

So I lay down in the gutter,

And a pig came near and lay down by my side;

A lady passing by was heard to say:

"You can tell a man who boozes,

By the company he chooses,"

And the pig got up and slowly walked away.

Unknown

THE TORCH

Lord, let me be the torch that springs to light

And lives its life in one exultant flame,

One leap of living fire against the night,

Dropping to darkness even as it came.

For i have watched the smouldering of a soul

Choked in the ashes that itself hath made,

Waiting the slow destruction of the whole,

And turned from it, bewildered and afraid.

Light me with love-with hate-with all desire

For that I may not reach, but let me burn

My little moment inpulsating fire

Ere yet into the darkness I return;

Be it for guard, or menace, peace or sword,

Make me thy torch to burn out swiftly, Lord.

Theodosia Garrison

Sunrise over Erwing Reservoir

 

Photograph by Ranie Patridis

Camera Coolpix 8800 

Art in ATC size

 

I love frogs, I don't know why either. I love to collect them as figurines for the house or outside. It isn't strange for me to try to capture the likeness of a frog either. Here is one of my attempts. 

ATD ~ Artist Trading Dolls

ATD are artist trading dolls. These are art dolls made from paper that are either the size of a 2.5 x 3.5 card size or they can be larger but need to fold up to an 2.5 x 3.5 card size. These cards I am sharing with you are not my ordinary art doll cards that I would make. The young lady holding flowers is a nice card a collage now me personally I would not call this an art doll, but in the Paper Doll world it is consider an art doll. 

 

Now this young lady below or man it looks more mannish than an lady the boots fold up keeping this an artist trading card size. Personally, I like to make art dolls larger than fold up into an artist trading card size.

 

LITTLE ROADS TO HAPPINESS

The little roads to happiness, they are not hard to find;
They do not lead to great success-but to a quiet mind.
They do not lead to mighty power, nor to substantial wealth.
They bring one to a book, a flower, a song of cheer and health.
The little roads to happiness are free to everyone;
They lead one to the wind's caress, to kiss of friendly sun.
These little roads are shining white, for all the world to see;
Their sign-boards, pointing left and right, are loved and sympathy.
The little roads of happiness have the most charming way;
No matter how they may digress throughout the busy day;
No matter where they twist and wind through fields of rich delight,
They're always of the self same mind to lead us home at night.
~Wilhelmina Stitch

Art with a bit of Sparkle

 

These Artist trading cards were made for a swap I enter in at ATCsforALL. The medium I use is watercolor paint and a bit of sparkle to it. There were hand drawn then painted.  

THE SCULPTOR

I took a piece of plastic clay

And idly fashioned it one day,

And as my fingers pressed it, still

It bent and yielded to my will.

I came again, when days were passed,

The bit of clay was hard at last,

The form I gave it, still it bore,

But I could change that form no more.

Then I took a piece of living clay

And gently formed it, day by day

And molded with my power and art,

A young child's soft and yielding heart.

I cam again when years were gone,

It was a man I looked upon.

He still that early impress bore,

And I could change it, nevermore.

Author Unknown

LEARN TO WAIT

Learn to wait-life's hardest lesson

Conned, perchance, through blinding tears;

While the heart throubs sadly echo

To the tread of passing years.

Learn to wait-hope's slow fruition;

Faint not, though the way seems long;

There is joy in each condition;

Hearts through suffering may grow strong.

Thus a soul untouched by sorrow

Aims not at a higher state;

Joy seeks not a brighter morrow;

Only sad hearts learn to wait.

Author Unknown

Trinity Fires....

We got some awesome shots of the Water Tank Helicopters getting water from Erwing Reservoir. They would fly in hover over the reservoir putting that hose into the water filling up their tanks. Here are a couple of pictures that my husband took with our Coolpix P4 camera. This is a beautiful view of our reservoir. There is a trail that you can walk all around this reservoir. As you can see that in the evening when the helicopters are filling up with water. Locals are here taking pictures along with me. There were 2 helicopters that were constantly filling up with water and dumping it over the fires surrounding Hayfork.

Going to be interesting to see how the surrounding forest will look like so much of it has burn. My heart goes out to all the wild animals that has been dislocated or gave their lives trying to escape the flames. At the same time thankful we have men and women who are willing to fight these fires.

Fires in Trinity County continue.....

This helicopter is amazing. I'm not sure what they called it. It is BIG. This one is carrying a bucket underneath it. The bucket holds 2,000 gallons of water in it. It will go, makes it dump, then come back to the air port, the ground grew would re-fill the bucket up.

 

See the Red Bucket below, this helicopter is on its way back to the fair grounds.

  

Now he is lowering the bucket down to the airport notice the difference in the sky color. That is heavy dark blue grey smoke in the background. 

You can not see the bucket here just the long cable that holds the bucket. The bucket is now on the ground.

 

As you can see now that helicopter is coming on down to land. This was amazing to watch!

  

LANDED 

Fires in Trinity County continue.....

We were delighted that we were able to get these pictures right now as I am writing this it is so smoky it looks like fog.

 

How cool is that? I can't believe that we are getting shots like this from that little tiny camera my Coolpix P4  This is call a Water Tanker Helicopter also know has a Logging Helicopter too.

See the smoke is coming back into Hayfork. It is so dark and dreary when that smoke is upon us.

  

Here is a beautiful shot of a helicopter with the sunset behind the smoke causing it to look this red.

Tomorrow I will share more pictures of this Helicopter. 

Fires in Trinity County

Back in June around the first week of June we had a dry lightening storm that cause havoc with Trinity County and other surrounding counties too. In Trinity County we had 79 fires burning. Our little community turn into a war zone so to speak. We have firemen here from all over, helicopters flying here n there. We are thankful to have them here fighting the fires. We have been in heavy smoke for over a month now, then suddenly Friday afternoon a nice breeze blew, blowing all the smoke out. Boy was that a blessing the smoke was really getting to us. That day we choose to go into town these are the pictures we came back with.

 

As we came into Hayfork, on one side it was clear blue skies the other side was dark n dreary with heavy smoke. We have been in this smoke for days some days we could barely see down our drive way. 

 

I was so excited getting a shot of this helicopter with my little Coolpix P4 camera while at the bank I did not even notice the pine tree with the cross on top. Cool! I wonder what the pilot thought?

  

Mike took this picture as the helicopter was lifting from the air port here in Hayfork. 

More pictures tomorrow to share with you.

Old Fashion Silhouettes

 

Old Fashioned Silhouettes size 2.5 x 3.5

  

Made for the Old Fashioned Silhouette Swap over at ATCsforALL