Spring!

This is us celebrating the arrival of spring in Seattle (it's been a little cold...and it's hard to gambol in mukluks...ah, well)

Stars and stripes and spring

Being on the opposite side of the world where it's autumn I have always struggled with these seasonal themes.

what if spring were static?

Spring came early here. The white petals of the pear trees have mostly fallen. The pinks and purples of cherry and iris, the golden yellow of forsythia, are sparse now. Daffodils are gone. Red tulips are drooping. Greens range from lime to olive to emerald to forest. Dark brown tree trunks are more prominent.

Early this morning the sky was blue, but it quickly filled up with shades of grey. When I gazed out my east-facing window, taking note of these colors, an undulating band of blue, with just a little pink, remained above the massing clouds.

The window of my house is mullioned, so what I see is a grid of vertical rectangles—white painted strips of wood in between. As I stood there thinking what to put in this collage, it struck me that while spring moves ever on, petals falling even as I watched, any one moment is a frozen slice of Time. "What if spring were static?" I wondered. "What if I could push 'pause'?" As if in tune with my thoughts, the Talking Heads' song "Heaven" came on the radio: "Oh heaven/ Heaven is a place/ A place where nothing/ Nothing ever happens."

So the ingredients of this collage, while reflecting the transient spring colors, are from photos of fairly permanent objects: fabric, feathers, resin, shell, glass, pottery, stone.

Theme of the Week: Springtime

This week's theme: Springtime.

I think we can now safely say we're in Springtime. Depends where you are in the world of course.
It seems brighter here, spring holidays beckon. Easter eggs in the stores and gambling lambs
on the hillsides....(they really should wait until they're older to bet.)

Well, that's the end of my stint as theme-master and that's my final theme.
It's been great doing this during the month of March and thanks to everyone.

Ron.

Radio Facefor is 'On the Air'.

Radio Facefor is launched and 'On the Air'.

Their Jingle:
"Radio Facefor is On the Air
It's hard to care
Radio Facefor is On the Air
Listen over there
Radio Facefor is On the Air"

Miles Malleson's Radio Toupee.

Inspired to do this after hearing actor and writer Mark Gatiss describe the bad wig of Miles Malleson (one of his favourite character actors) as a 'Radio Toupee'.

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