Spring!
No processing here.
The colours and contrasts were astonishingly vivid this morning. I was supposed to be working but sat looking out at the blue air and butter-coloured light and could hear the birds in their frenzy of conversations about house building, and it was pretty soon obvious that resistance was futile.
It was a super-real three dimensional world, in three and a half dimensions. I walked and walked and the landscape seemed almost hallucinatory. My mental state upped its colour range, also, and I began to feel quite manic with ideas and plans and odd unsolicited thoughts.
Of course, there's a traditional consequence to mania, and sure enough, in a grey and chilly afternoon, tired from walking, all the important-seeming content of this morning has vanished like a mist.
Comments
This is beautiful and I loved your write-up!
~ impoftheyard
beautiful shot and sky .
~ sunflower
Brilliant blue sky. Lovely image.
~ caffeine
Must be something in the upper atmosphere... I haven't time to do it right now, but my blip (if it turns out and hard to tell until I download) is something like yours today ... give me about 4 hours!! More friends for lunch and need to cook something fast!
~ yjr
wonderful spring shot
~ Claartje
Ah yes, it may have vanished but you saw and experienced it. Well thought out.
~ hpx
This is amazing 5 from me :0)
~ Shona
I particularly love the layers upon layers of textures.... blue sky helps too, i felt very springlike when i first saw your blip...
cheers, linda
~ bighill
This is gorgeous! There's something quite dreamy about it!
~ annetodd
beautiful light and colors!!
~ distractedhausfrau
Ah yes mania; my good friend! ; )
~ RogersDay
Beautiful capture. Nature and photography the way it was intended !!!
douglas
~ mcspud1947
Wonderful saturated colours here. Very well blipped.
~ Cradlehall
Beautiful!
~ brainfreeze
Hi chums - should anyone come here looking for me, hahar - I should probably say that I'm having a blipbreak. Not enough hours in the day. Course, there IS enough time to take and upload a picture, but it's the sharing that makes Blip what it is and that's the time-eater, ain't it? Yarp. Back soon. Back later. Back sometime. Happy Spring, bliponauts.
~ Anziegb
I was wondering too :)
~ Flick
enjoy the break!
~ Orchid
Yes, enjoy the break, but come back soon. I am missing your blips.
~ Skip
I love that kind of feeling...its a very surreal way of experiencing the world! pussywillows?
~ RogersDay
Hello chums. Tried to take a picture today and I'm so out of practice that it was a sad blip travesty of crapness. I'm saying that as a friend and being kind. It's the kindest possible angle on the situation.
Too verbal lately. Lost my handle on the visual part of the cortex. Mmm. The words have crowded it out, jostled it, out of the brain. Whoosh. Oh well. The novel I'm writing is probably to blame.
But you know what they say. A bad workman blames his novel. Or hers. Depending.
Anyway.
My book Keeper was published today. Just wanted to keep you abreast of amazon type activity. Best wishes to all.
Andrea
~ Anziegb
Keeper: Living with Nancy. A journey into Alzheimer's (Paperback)
by Andrea Gillies (Author).
Your book has had some really excellent reviews on Amazon.
Congratulations to you. (1 September 2009)
~ Cradlehall
Still not enough hours in the day to blip. I need an omnibus edition of the week. But just wanted friends here to know that Keeper won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009
http://www.wellcomebookprize.org/News/Announcements/WTX057300.html
Best wishes to all
Andrea
~ Anziegb
Congrats on the prize! You must be delighted.
~ Northern
Crisp shot!
I like the colors....
~ powerplanter
So nice to find you're addendum (s) here - i've often wondered where you disappeared to...and if it hadn't been for a blip i happened on today (January 15, 2010!) i wouldn't have known about your book, your wonderful prize and that you have actually been dipping into blip now and again....looks like the last time was Sept. 09! And now, BookRambler has reviewed the book and got me back here! what they say about 6 degrees of separation eh!!!
apparently your book won't be available across the pond till next year....how come?? Can i purchase one from you???
anyway, cheers and warm wishes from Cape Breton Island!
Linda
~ bighill
Hello Linda! Just dipped in on one of my occasional visits and here you are... I was wondering how you and your island are getting along... do you write a blog anywhere that I could follow? Other than here I mean.
Thanks for the congratulations. It's been an exciting year and now, yep, Random House are bringing out an American edition next February. It takes a whole year for them to bring a book out, from receipt of manuscript it seems. Don't ask me why American publishing is so laborious and slow. Seems ludicrous but there you are.
I don't have any copies here but you can buy it from amazon and pay the very high postage fee from the UK if you can't wait till February 2011 !! [If I were you I'd wait].
A very happy new year to you and to all at blipfoto xx
~ Anziegb
and again, quite by happenstance i find myself back here....mainly cos i've now completed one whole year of blip i get to have my last at this time image shown to me....how wonderful and strange this is~!
anyway, so you really can't sell me a copy of a book you wrote, this is just weird - mainly cos i'm in the business of producing 'things' like mugs, teapots etc....and they are tangible and real, and here...i could send you one tomorrow, but not so with books eh! this is too bad...i guess i'll ponder the idea of waiting, or maybe i'll check with amazon and the extra!!!
life here on Cape breton is just fabulous....i'm so happy and my wonderful man - life is awesome....lets keep in touch!!!
cheers, linda
~ bighill
I was interrupted there by 'the wonderful man' - and i just want to pick up a thread....i'd be happy to wait and buy a copy of your book, from you....knowing a bit about how the publishing world works ( a good friend of mine is a writer) i'd just be so happy to pay you the whole price of the work....anyway, not a big deal, just one of those things that makes me a little irritated...more to do with the idea that some one other than the creator gets the profits - let me know if you get some copies and i can buy one directly from you!
cheers, and happy new year....
linda
~ bighill
Hello again!
Nope - I don't get any copies to sell to people, only my little stack of comps. I even have to fork out for extra copies to send to copyright holders, as permissions are the writer's responsibility. But it's okay. The profits suit me very well. I'd hate to be the publisher of any book in this financial climate.
Random House have now pulled Keeper out of the spring 2011 list and forwards into Fall 2010, so there you go. They'll be closer at hand in the autumn. Meanwhile yes, amazon is probably the only way to get your hands on one. Oh - and someone mentioned something called The Book Depository to me; someone who had a US friend who'd ordered one.
Take care. If you're on facebook, come and find me there.
Andrea
~ Anziegb