Category: Colors and Shapes
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A Classic Recycled Glass Pendant
Digging in my jewelry box for turquoise pieces, I came across this recycled glass and sterling silver pendant. The pendant is the first piece where I combined the silver directly with the glass. After this piece, I created the process to combine recycled fine silver directly to recycled glass. The sterling in this piece is…
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Spring Sunday in the City: Part 4
Orange poppies were mixed in with the tulips and yellow poppies at the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden In addition to the tulips and poppies, there were other flowers which were good subjects with the macro lens.
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Spring Sunday in the City: Part 3
Tulips at the Golden Gate Park’s Queen Wilhemina Tulip Garden were accompanied by generous plantings of poppies. All phases of the bloom were evident I enjoyed taking these before, during, and after-the-bloom photos
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Spring Sunday in the City: Part 2
After visiting the Cartier and America exhibit, we stopped by Golden Gate Park‘s Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. After knowing about the garden for a few years, I am happy that I remembered it during tulip season.
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Wire Figures, Part 2: Pileated Woodpecker
During the second day of Thomas Hill’s wire sculpture workshop, we chose a drawing or photo of an animal to use as a reference. Choosing the drawing or photo has a big part to play in the final outcome. If the photo shows the animal at an angle, only shows parts of the animal, or is…
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Sea Glass at the Beach, Part 2
At the beach in all these photos, the sea glass is protected and it’s illegal to collect any. The beach is amazing, sea glass has replaced the sand normally seen on beaches. The tinkling sound of the glass being tumbled is wonderful to hear. The beach is such a treasure that it’s been designated an…
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Sea Glass at the Beach, Part 1
In this Mexican harbor I found so many pieces of broken bottle glass that my pockets were full. Notice the high percentage of jagged glass; that means the harbor workers are throwing bottles into the ocean. I’d like to go back in a few years and see how much tumbled sea glass is there and…
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Blues, Greens and Browns
View of Kona Coast from off the Kohala Coast. While our friends went diving we stayed on land so we could fly the next day. I took some pictures of them and one of the dive sites from a new vantage point: above the water.
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Shades of Green
The North Kohala countryside has many shades of green Morning Yes, there are roads here. And, ravines. The sun sets over the ocean