Ascender Rises Above

Vote for your Favorite Artwork; “The People’s Choice” at Laketrees blog (prize donated by The Barker Boys). Voting closes Saturday, May 24th.

Here is my entry. Visit Laketree’s blog for details.

Title: Beyond the Visible Terrain© Scatterlings©
Medium: Mixed Media; Pressed Foliage, Watercolor, Colored Pencil,
Pen and Ink on Handmade Paper

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The Road Home; Photo. More Ascender’s Photos. Print.

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But for us the road
unfurls itself, we count the
words in our pockets, we wonder
how it will be without them, we don’t
stop walking, we know
there is far to go….

Denise Levertov

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At Night I Bloom; Illuminated Tile. Collage, Paint, Mixed Media
See more on this tile. More Ascender’s Illuminated Tiles this blog.

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Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.

Lorenz Hart

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The Fire Line; Photo. More Ascender’s Photos. Print

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All the angels of Tie Siding were on fire.
The famous sky was gone.

Presumably the mountains were still there, invisible in haze.
OK,
there was only one angel, but she was a torch in the wind, beside
the wind-ripped American flag the post office flies.
OK, she wasn’t
literally on fire.
Maybe her angelic red hair made me think she was
ablaze as it flaunted the prairie and made a festival of itself.
There
was a fireworks stand nearby, entirely beside the point, as was the
Fourth of July.
It was really dry.
It was fire season.
It was the
wind festival, featuring an angel standing in it, letting her red hair
conflagrate history, reduce it to ash, bid it start anew, erase the sky
with atrocity’s own smoke.
She wore, besides her flame of hair,
blue jeans and a singlet.
She was violent in the wind.
I started
walking toward her.
I’m still walking toward her, no idea what to
say when I get there.

Fire Season by James Galvin

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Fire Season in the news

Wildfire wiki

Locations of large fires - US/Canada; MODIS satellite imagery

CalFireNews.com - California/World Wildfire News and Photos

Wildland Firefighter Foundation - provides assistance to fallen firefighters’ families and to firefighters injured in the line of duty.

Orange Mysteries; Illuminated Tile. Collage, Paint, Mixed Media
More Ascender’s Illuminated Tiles this blog.

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Oh mysterious world… I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul – a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Paul Gauguin

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Simply Joy; Photo. More Ascender’s Photos. Print
Taken at The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas.

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Life, like a child, laughs,
shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Cherry Tulips; Illuminated Tile. Collage, Paint, Mixed Media
More Ascender’s Illuminated Tiles this blog.

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Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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