Watermark

Spot

More from the artist who created the images I now use on Watermark for icons (or accent dingbats, as Factoid calls them.)

These are courtesy of btang phlog, who says:

Scott Draves (aka spot) recently put out a dvd that has been blogged around but mainly using Ernst Haeckel's works . . .THIS IS NOT DOING JUSTICE TO SPOT'S OWN WORK which includes the famed Electric Sheep. check out the animation clips and more frames. . . you should buy his dvd!! NOW! :-)

Melancholy

     who regrets
        the passing of winter
           the coming of spring?

 

Equinox

Design Feedback?

Another way to avoid writing:  tweak your weblog.

So I'm trying out some new icons on my posts (they come from here.)  I went back and replaced the black spiral shell with a variety of these shell-like images:

{You techies out there would not believe how long it took me to figure out how to do this.}

I think they are beautiful, but now I wonder -- are they too much?  The black shell (see my sidebar) had the advantage of being simple and consistent with the rest of the design.

I'll leave it like this for a few days, at least.  Please let me know what you think.   

And any other feedback on the design, function, or content of this site is always welcomed.

Later:  Well, now I've gone in and changed the black spiral shell to another from the same collection.  Can't seem to leave it alone . . .

March Thaw, Juneau, Alaska

     The first bear came down from
     the mountain today. Porcupines
     graze by the trail. 

     The air tastes of the forest
     trying to bloom. Icicles melt, quick
     percussive drip off the eaves.

     On the high New Mexico desert,
     your ashes and bits of bone
     rest pale in the red dirt. 

     I bring home hothouse daisies,
     tulips, daffodils in green
     buckets.  Rain falls, falls. 

Doll Heads

A Blogger's Lament

All the wise & wonderful things I've said here . . . well, quoted . . . some . . . and this gets the most attention!

Poetry

From Overlap via lime tree:

Poetry has the capacity to deal with the nonevents of life in a way that other art forms couldn't possibly manage.

Buddhism in Seven Words

From Jane Hirshfield:

Everything changes, everything is connected; pay attention.

Breakfast