Finally, Signs of Spring

[porphyry]

It has been a long, cold, snowy, icy winter, more wintery than those in recent memory. While we did enjoy sledding in the snow, by the end of March the children were getting cabin fever pretty badly and were happy to see signs of spring finally arrive.

Here is a sample:



Here is the rest of the album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Anebo10/ChildernSPhotosMarch2008

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

No, I well understood what you meant. That's a charming trait to have.

As a child, my mess of preference was glitter and glue.

While I've never been a big fan of Jackson Pollock's works, in the movie Pollack which chronicled a good portion of the artist's life, throwing all that paint around sure looked like fun!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

In that film they advance the farcical explanation for the creation of abstract expressionism that Pollock was one day painting with brush strokes on a large canvas laid out on the floor and noticed some paint dripping off a loaded brush and making spots on the canvas. Once he paits a whole canvas in this way his wife (also not a painter) looks at it and says, 'You've busted it.' Perhaps we are meant to think she meant he had broken through to a higher level of artistic creativity, but what she actually means is 'You've finished reducing Western Civilization to a heap of broken images,' with the connotation that they could easily sell it to art dealers and patrons and they wouldn't have to live in poverty anymore. So, we have to see the flame of the West extinguished under dripping paint so a drunk can have more expensive liqour.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but throwing all that paint around still looked like fun.