I did this short photo story on the colors that are all around us during this wonderful fall season. They are all around us and we sometime don't have the time, or if you are like me the attention span, to stop and smell the roses, no pun intended. Here are my photos from under the bridge by Spokane Falls Community College.
I recently learned that scientist still don't know why leaves change to a vibrant color of red in the fall. They have their guesses, but still no official word from them. Their best guesses are to warn off insects that might eat the leaves by using the color red to warn them off danger.
It always amazes me the beauty in the simplest things in nature. I love to go for walks and see the little things that most people will glass over. I love to look for the hidden beauty in life.
Week Two Quotes
“I visualize a story as a beaded necklace – a pearl necklace- coiled up in the muck at the bottom of the sludge collected at the bottom of your subconscious. When you start yanking on the string, an old string that’s been rotting in the muck for years, the string breaks. But you’ve got one gorgeous pearl left in your hands, and you’re motivated to roll up your sleeves and stick your hand down into the muck to find the rest of the pearls you just barely glimpsed. And one by one you fetch them up. But without their string (the plot; the because-sequence is the string) they come up in a random order. In fact, some of the pearls may not even belong to this necklace.
Eventually, when you’ve got them all, you can sit down and make the “outline” of the story. You look at the pearls and your sense of ART tells you which ones go with which – by color and shape and texture and size –and you arrange a set of pearls so the big one is in the middle and the small ones on the end (or however your Art says to do it). At that point, you know which pearls don’t belong on this necklace and set them aside.
C.J. Cherryh
What C.J. Cherryh is saying in this quote is that a story is a wonderful ting when it is complete and finished, but in order to get there you need to find each individual piece and sort through it all to find the order and complete the story.
“The method I use now is to present ideas through impressions. Readers immersed in the gradually unfolding impressions will form their own ideas, which might or might not be in agreement with the author’s; that is fine either way. Ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”
A dialogue with MuXin
MuXin in stating a similar idea to C.J. Cherryh. The message is that there needs to be a solid underbody or guide to a story for it to be fluent and complete.
