Poppytalking

I thought these poppies looked like they were chatting to each other, the way their heads bobbed and nodded in the breeze. I went back to the house to grab a camera and capture the scene. So have you visited my gallery on Poppytalk yet? Come over and have a look around!

My poppytalk gallery: http://www.poppytalkhandmade.com/gallery71

Deeply Inserted into Existence

Beneath the Trees by Jo Bradford

I am reminded today of the wisdom of John Berger.
Bergers' writings were required reading for my photography degree many moons ago, yet much of what he says still resonates with me as I roam the world armed with my camera....
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“That we find a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone,
that we are more deeply inserted into existence
than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”
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Thanks to Dava, who featured Green Island Studios as one of her Etsy shops of the week, on her blog "Treasures From Hawaii" today.

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In the Olive Grove

In The Olive Grove ~ by Jo Bradford

The memory of lying in the dappled sunshine in the Olive groves of the Andalucian Mountains taking these pictures is still fresh in my mind... {sigh}

This is the newest listing in my Etsy shop

Dialogues with Flowers

Nuance by Jo Bradford
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with her through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms,

Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards her.

~ Auguste Rodin ~

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A Cordial Word - By Jo Bradford
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Well I can hardly believe that May is knocking on the door already, time is flying by in 2009!
These are a some of the brand new pictures in my Etsy shop today.
Enjoy
xoxo