Little Things Mean Alot

To Whom It May Concern:  I Noticed.

I love to spend

 time looking at art.

I visit palaces and museums...

...but I always try to

take the time to find

the art in everyday things.

The everyday, the utilitarian

is still art,  someone took

the time to design it

and to design it beautifully.

I took this photo in a fabulous

Abbey in Austria.  Everyone

else in the room was taking photos

of the painted ceilings and the objects

in the room and I was taking photos

of the heating grate.  Then, everyone

noticed what I was doing and began

photographing the grate.

I loved that!

Notice the lovely curve of

this staircase, it reminds

me of the curves on a woman's

body.  I find it amazing that

stone and metal can be made

into something so sensuous.

I crawled down under a

staircase on a snowy day

in Budapest to get this shot.

But this hidden piece of

architecture was important to me.

So look up, look down,

and notice the little things

that someone put so much

thought into.

I love this pile of rubble

thrown in a corner outside

Buda Castle.  Hey, Budapest

if you don't want it, that stuff

would look great in my garden.



The Doors ~ Part One

A Small Key Opens Big Doors

-Turkish Proverb

I love doorways.

I always have.

I used to draw them.  But now, sadly,

I lack the patience for that.

Now I photograph them.

When my kids look at my travel albums they

groan and say, "More door photos?"

I like to think about the lives being lived

behind these doors.  I want to open them

and share in what is happening.

The doors we open and close each day

decide the lives we live.

- Flora Whittemore

I also love these, but that's an entirely different story.