color!

here are pantone's fall 2011 colors. wow.

with the exception of bamboo and phlox, i can see myself wearing most of them. honeysuckle - the pink shade - is the 2011 color of the year.

i've had a rocky relationship with pink since my childhood. i think we over did it in my girly girl room. so much pink that i had to take a looooong break. ironically, i am looking into several pink fabrics for the new livingroom cushion covers. still, a touch of pink, not a deluge.

inspired by ice

The last time I skated on Manchester Lake, I was surprised by the noise that the ice was making as we skated across it. I worried that the sounds were a sign of instability.

 

This time, the wind was quiet (very rare for this lake) so we could hear the ice much more clearly. I realized the sound indicated the ice flexing to accommodate us rather than a warning of an impending break.  

 

The ice music was so moving and so rich. Eeery and otherworldly. Gentle, but also tonal. It is reminiscent of whale songs. I hope to make a recording some day. When I stopped to listen, I also became enchanted and inspired by the patterns in the ice.

The textures and patterns are both random and repetitive. I imagine ice changes from day to day, depending upon the weather, as the it waxes and wanes.

Note: these photos were made with an iphone and processed using lightroom and photoshop.