I misplaced my glasses more than a year ago, so a lot of life is a blur. I rely on my camera to bring in the far-away wonders of my world. Last week in Virginia, I took my morning walk down a little service road that smelled like paradise. I looked up with my camera to discover an arbor of wisteria, above.
Closer to my nose, I enjoyed this view from the inside of the Capitol Building in Colonial Williamsburg. Things look like this to me even when the glass is not melting! Looking through this bullseye glass, I realized being clear and being transparent are not the same thing...
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These are both beautiful photos. I can smell the flowers.
ReplyDeleteI could almost smell the flowers in here! And the second one is beautiful too with it's reflexions and distortions!
ReplyDeleteI love that first picture.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers, and the smell,mmmm.....
ReplyDeleteThe second is amazing!
Have a nice Friday.
great shots. i really like the second one great idea! happy sw
ReplyDeleteBeautiful wisteria! I have vines over my deck that aren't quite this full yet.
ReplyDeleteWe used to take our students to Williamsburg when I lived in Virginia. Isn't it marvelous - such a sense of history!
I love the photo through the class too!
So beautiful both of them.
ReplyDeleteMy sky watch is up also The Goat Man
fantastic one! Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. mine's up too, hope you'll visit mine.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos and that wisteria smells gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteHello Sandy
ReplyDeleteI wish I have done that walk and smelt that Wisteria.. and the window and your eyes is fun.. Fun Filled Sky Watch Friday what more can I ask.. :O)
Two beautiful shots ... love them!!
ReplyDeleteI can smell them too!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures.
Beautiful sky embroidered with pink flowers
ReplyDeletebeautiful, excellent done.
ReplyDeleteWonderful!
ReplyDeleteAmazing how our "self" can work together!
Your senses must have been buzzing....what your eyes lost your nose captured!
Dxx
Love both the photos...I just planted a wisteria this week.
ReplyDeleteVery nice photos. I had to chuckle over your glasses. I would be running into things all the time if I did not have my glasses on. I hope you will find them soon! :-)
ReplyDeleteWisteria!!! My favorite!!!! Great shot Sandy!
ReplyDeleteMy SWF...
wisteria is one of my favorite spring blooms, ours will be out in full force within the next week or so. Thank you for the sneak preview.
ReplyDeleteSo that is what wisteria looks like! What a wonder it must have been to stand under it. Thank you! These are so very artfully and beautifully done, Sandy. Wonderful lift to my afternoon.
ReplyDeleteSandy: That wisteria bush shot is really nice. Great little flowers on the bush.
ReplyDeleteI love both these shots Sandy. The melting glass and then the trees and blossoms. Beautiful...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers and I also love the window photo.
ReplyDeleteI love that blur and when I can't tell if a picture I've taken is any good (cause I can't see it well) and then I found it's good. I love that surprise. Gotta go look at some photos I took today of my friends cat named "Pet Pet Ping Pong."
ReplyDeleteLovely photos and deep thoughts.
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful flowers are and the sky behind is the canvas. Wonderful picture.
ReplyDelete-Cheers.
Wow, that's hard to believe without a photo, that wisteria would grow in that way. It must've been heaven! And the windows: it was so common in Connecticut to be in buildings with old glass like that and never here. I sort of miss that!
ReplyDeleteI love wisteria! This picture of it is wonderful, Sandy.
ReplyDeleteThe picture throught the windo is very unique! Love it.
Great shots and flowers.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen wisteria. It looks quite fragrant.
ReplyDeleteNice captures. The second one that looks like its windows are melting is a real interesting shot :)
ReplyDeleteThese are both beautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteThose flowers have a fantastic smell :)
Just grat pictures..Thank you so much for your visit and generous comments.
ReplyDeleteso beautiful! :)
ReplyDeleteSome how I missed out on the wisteria this year. Your's is very beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are great! The wisteria looks beautiful with the blue of the sky.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos for SWF! mine's up too, hope you can drop by. Have a wonderful Friday and weekend!
ReplyDeleteInteresting shots both! Even more interesting, the words you write.
ReplyDeletea sky watch with a flavour! have a happy weekend! God bless!
ReplyDeleteGlad you came south for a visit. I too enjoyed your well framed photos.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos for SWF! They put a smile on Louis's face! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love wisteria they have such a beautiful bloom, you captured it quite well
ReplyDeleteHI Sandy, both are beautiful pictures. But the art seen in the last photo is nice. I love it!
ReplyDeletenice photos, Sandy. I can just smell those wonderful smells....
ReplyDeleteScotty
Mmmm....lovely!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo of those wonderful flowers:)
An arbor of wisteria. Wow! I really liked that picrute.
ReplyDeleteSo this is what wisteria is. On Norwegian television we can see the trouble at Wisteria lane, but I did not know what wisteria was. Thanks for inlightning me.
Whoa, that wisteria is lovely. Terrific shot!!!
ReplyDeleteInside the Capitol building at Colonial Williamsburg, eh? Lucky you. :~D
Such beautiful flowers. Walks can be more rewarding if you see such lovely sight.
ReplyDeleteAmazing photos both of them!
ReplyDeleteWhat about buying a new pair of glasses? There is so much beautiful to see you know :)))
The "windows"-picture was just great! Very good framing and well spotted with the different types og glass.
ReplyDeleteA brilliant pair of photos.
ReplyDeleteHere is so much to look and read...
ReplyDeleteboth are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Sandy, just beautiful. Congratulations on your show in Cheshire. I read about it in the newspaper today. I'm so happy for you!
ReplyDeleteI love wisteria, and that is a great photo from the windows of Williamsburg.
ReplyDeleteI rely on enlargements to see what I miss without glasses, too!
ReplyDeleteBut, the scent just isn't captured!!
Great photos! Really enjoy your site.
Nina at Nature Remains
I love your photos! Such an interesting perspective on both.
ReplyDeletegreat shots!! thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteI love wisteria, and both your photos are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLove the pictures even through the wibbley glass. Find those glasses. MB
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful photos. My favorite is the last one. Absolutly fantastic!!
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely weekend:)
If I need to loose my glasses to make such beautiful pictures, then I will loose them immediately ! It's not very difficult for me, lol !
ReplyDeleteThese photos are both stunning... the wisteria is beautiful! This looks to be a very old vine!
ReplyDeleteOoh, I love that first picture. The purple is very very pretty against the green. :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful Sandy!
ReplyDeleteIncredible DOF in the first photo!
I love the contrast!
And isn't is wonderful to walk through a day with your head and your eyes, up!
Have a beautiful day and weekend that follows.
These are both beautiful - I like the window pane look. Cool.
ReplyDeleteI love both of these. Those flowers were definitely worth looking up for.
ReplyDeletemmmmm....I am imagining the glorious scent of wisteria.
ReplyDeleteAnd the wobbly glass - I love it.
Your comments were quite astute.
Thanks for sharing.
I can smell the flowers...I can!
ReplyDeleteWonderful!
Petunia's ABC
Great shots, the second one is cool! Well done.
ReplyDeleteThe wisteria shot is magnificent. You should frame it -:)
ReplyDeleteAh, wisteria! Heaven!
ReplyDeleteI like the window/glass shot, quite a different view and almost abstract in a nice way
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Nashville!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to let you know I stopped by and have been enjoying your photos!
Please excuse that I'm cutting and pasting this comment, but since my right arm (my writing arm!) is still in a sling, typing is pretty difficult, so I really haven't been able to make comments.
Have a great weekend!
Chris
I love the wysteria colors, and the flowing windows. You know, that's because glass is a super cooled liquid, so it continues to flow over decades.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sandy, for your kind words about my little show in Cheshire!
ReplyDeleteStop by if you're in the hood!
Mmmmm, I can almost smell that wisteria from here! Down here in Florida, we have a tree called the jacaranda, which flowers in a similar color. Thanks for stopping by my place; looking forward to reading more of your work.
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That Wisteria is lovely! I bet it smelled devine too!
ReplyDeleteBoth pictures are beautiful. The flowers say so much about spring and the old glass says ancient to me.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots.
ReplyDeleteWonderful, both of them. :)
Thanks for visiting my Sky Watch post. :)
Ida
Hi Sandy
ReplyDeleteJust nipped back to smell that beautiful Wisteria again and to read some of the many comments.. I enjoyed Sky Watch again this week... over 150 this time.. bigger and better.
Thanks for joining in.
Tom
Sandy, both photos are wonderful. I can smell the wisteria, oh yes I can! I love that glass and the distortion it makes... You know you can buy another pair of glasses... LOL! :D
ReplyDeletebeautiful pictures! :)
ReplyDeleteImpressive! I think they would be great as mural. I'm obsessed about putting one on my wall.
ReplyDeleteShoshana
Love them
ReplyDeleteI like both these photos! The wisteria is beautiful! I don't think I've seen it before! thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhisteria are beautiful. Neat photo of the old glass indeed.
ReplyDeleteThose are beautiful shots :)
ReplyDeletea clever mixture of photos. how can you go so long without your glasses? drives me to distraction
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I love wisteria--and it does smell heavenly! We are farther south, and our blooms are already spent. Beautiful photo!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo Sandy. I could almost smell the flowers. Shame about your glasses. I know what you mean. I wear glasses and contact lenses and would be lost without mine, especially with small print!
ReplyDeleteThanks for being here.