Like sands through the hourglass....

Even when I was 8 years old I remember thinking years ago, while listening to the start of my Mom's favorite soap opera; "Days of Our Lives" that life was kinda like that hourglass. That moments come and go like those sands in the hourglass, and elusively pass into our memories. Memories that seem to stay with you whether they be good or bad, usually burn themselves into the recesses of our minds because they have an emotional tag of some sort attached. I will post a few more images through Oct. and November as this seems to be a very reflective time of year. Hope you enjoy them and perhaps they bring back some special memories of your own.

Image: Teenager Reflections

Image: Looking For Dad

Image: Mushroom in the Path

Image: Tamarack Trees

What is the reality of what we really see, or feel, or sense....

While watching a compelling episode of Morgan Freeman's "Into the Wormhole" I was thorughly engrossed in his compelling program about scientists who firmly believe there are dimensions and spheres that though they may not be visible, are nevertheless still there. Places where possibly our twin or triplet operates in an unseen dimension of space and time etc etc. A regular modern day theory that would leave the likes of Rod Serling or Carl Sagan titillated.....well anyway......I believe we look directly into the eyes of our maker and into the wide open universe at times, when we look into nature. So thus inspired, I share with you a few of my interpretations

Fabric Designs

Four new designs for backgrounds or possibly fabrics

Above design as a necktie

Loon On The Lake Prints

We have a limited number of signed limited edition litho prints of my pencil drawing; "Loon on the Lake" available for $16.95 (11x17) unmatted, unframed. Shipping US $7-12 additional... 16/150 pieces available white background o/100 ivory background sold out e-mail me at igcgraphics@verizon.net if you would like to order a copy

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Intimate With Nature; Water

Image "Little water falls and moss"

July Mountain Stream....

So hot and dry above the trees lining the stream, yet it is cool,shady and quiet under the canopy of the trees. I sit on a large mossy rock in the middle of the stream bed. A stream where just a few months ago, after spring rains and winters melting snows, the stream swelled, roared. And sent snaking down the mountain, thundering torrents and waves of black water. Massive gray boulders in place and embedded for a million years, are rolled down the mountain by this mighty rush of water, like a little childs marbles. Large trees whose roots had clung to the stones along the streams banks, lose their grip and are shredded like kindling. Now, there is just a gentle whisper, a hint of water trickling on the rocks below. A green maple leaf, winds it's way down the streams narrow path, and a tree sparrow is singing in the trees nearby.

~Yasu July 2012

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Hollyhock; Passion in pink

Intimate with Flowers group 4

Intimate with Nature...Floral Closeups Series

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho available in metal and framed only prints image size up to 16 x 20" (black, bronze or silver frame w/white or black matte)

Tree of Life

The lonely twisted tree survives precariously on the very edge of the canyon walls. Wintry blasts and summers scorching heat, have yet to reduce it to cinders. It's roots have patiently dug deep into the rock and sand, as it hangs on with a deaths grip, to the canyons edge. It's scant limbs and sparse needles, always reaching to embrace the sun.

Intimate With Nature Acrylic Painting Series 1&2

24 x 3o" acrylic 1; Gladiola Twists

24 x 3o acrylic 2 Hollyhock after the rain I will do a write up and name these pieces soon, as well as #3 which is still in progress

Intimate with Nature; Floral Close ups & Abstractions

Spiral Gyro

Floral Shower Curtain

Peach Fantasy These look great printed on metal in sizes up to 16 x 20" depending on format of photos. Prices start at $125 for an 8 x 10 up to $275 for a 16 x 20 plus shipping and $15 if you would like a shadow mount

Evenings Blanket 3

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." ~The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

Evenings Blanket 2

Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation Darkness wakes and stirs imagination Silently the senses abandon their defenses... Excerpt from Phantom of the Opera;"Music of the Night"

Moonlit Sernity Garden

Boat on Dock

Dark Lady

Evening Flower

Evenings Blanket

as the day is done and darkness starts to take hold... I embrace in my mind, the fading beauty and last vestiges of sunlight, and enter the safe harbor of darkness.

New Prints Available

Intimate With Flowers & Nature; Dancing Daisies

Intimate with Flowers & Nature; The Seduction

Intimate With Flowers & Nature; Spiders World

Adirondack Folio; "Panther Mountain"

Framed Artwork; Image 18 x 36", 23 x 42 matted and framed......$325.00 unframed $95

Intimate With Flowers & Nature; Peonies Awakening

Intimate With Flowers & Nature; The Sun God

"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'" n ~Rachel Carson

Peony Dreams

A beautiful pair of peonies(photos 24 x30ea) that are sure to be an uplifting focal point in any office or home setting. Set-off in this picture on a frosted pink matte with black frame.

price as shown $1,150 I can change the colors of the matte and frame, and I can also provide design consultation services and assistance.

Intimate with Flowers & Nature; Daffodil Embrace

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony. ~John Muir Man's bond with nature, It is so missing in society today. We long for a simpler life and yet we continue to make it more and more complicated. Tethering ourselves to multiple electronic devices. Umbilical cords that numb and dumb us even more....

Intimate With Flowers & Nature....

“Now here is my secret, very simply: you can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"Greeting the Sunrise"