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

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

Puddles and mud! Great! (The reason why I tinker with paper and paste all through the year.)

[filialucis]

What lovely pictures, and what beautiful kids!

[siamhussein.livejournal.com]

I agree. Which is your favorite?

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Favorite child or favorite picture?

My "favorite" is Andrew. Now don't get me wrong, I love them both equally but feel an especial affinity with him. He's always been much needier, more contrary, more solemn. But he's so interesting.

Favorite picture? Madeline's profile: she looks just like a Renaissance miniature.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Thank you; we're glad you enjoyed it. If you noticed, Spiderman's feet are disproportinately large; that's so he can zoom about the floor slinging webs. One never knows who might win the battles, though; it all depends on whose side Andrew is on that day (meaning who he himself is pretending to be that day).

I think Malkhos would perish of thirst before he would drink an Icee. :)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

They love puddles and mud, and I don't mind--that's what kids do. In the summer, I'm apt to go splashing with them myself.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

Completely angelic!

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

(In case this hasn't come through: I really meant to say that I share the kids' enthusiasm for playing with mud and suchlike stuff. I have something of a reputation for very untidily doing handicrafts with all kinds of paper/cardboard and glue/paste, getting it all over my hands, clothes, face and hair.)

[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]

Thanks! My kids certainly prefer outdoors to indoors, so we're glad winter is letting go.

[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.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

I feel that I know your house quite well now :)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I know.

Somehow, the carpets always look cleaner than they are in pictures. I don't know why that is.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Ah--meant to say, "cleaner in pictures than they are."

[filialucis]

Now, given the length of time this thread has been inactive, you may justly accuse me of being slow on the uptake... but I finally remembered what I wanted to link you to, in honour of the Mothra figure Andrew's playing with in one of the pictures: St. Anselm in an Internet chatroom.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I got the joke on the ontological 'proof', but, I fear this:

g4un1L0: i’m on ur island makin it teh best EVAR.


was beyond me.

It seemed just as funny that arcna mundi and burning books were on that forum.

[filialucis]

g4un1L0 is Leet for Gaunilo, the monk who wrote a refutation of the ontological proof using the "Lost Island" argument. That was the bit that cracked me up the hardest; when I first read the sketch, I had no idea who or what Mothra even was. :)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I see.

'Leet'?

[filialucis]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

*shrug*

[sombersigh.livejournal.com]

It's such a lovely photo, overflowing with the sweetness and innocence of childhood; a picture in the spirit of yesteryear. Thank you for sharing it.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Why, you're welcome. Thanks for looking... I'm excited because today, finally, Andrew's cast comes off. Now he can actually go back outside and play!

[sombersigh.livejournal.com]

How fantastic for him to regain his freedom! A happy day this is. ;)