by Marja-Leena 
– when a grandchild brings you a couple of leaves in the colours of fall
– when going back to the print studio feels like going back to school
– when dear artist friends gather together again after a summer break
– when Indian summer comes with hot afternoons and cool nights with heavy dews
– when the last of the tomatoes are almost all ripe
– when the bell peppers are finally turning red
– when juggling new schedules and fitting in visitors too
by Marja-Leena 
I love the more abstract images where one doesn’t know what one is seeing… just enjoying the shapes, textures and tonal variations.
the promised links to other ‘breaks’ (oh my, too many!):
broken,
butter dish
the broken bowl
broken glass
everyday object
reflections in broken glass
by Marja-Leena 
More fragments, shards, the saving of memories present to past… all themes in my printworks and photoworks
Please see the bowl breaks (1) for the update should you have missed it.
by Marja-Leena 
… an addition to my ‘breaks’ series of a sort, with more photos to come…
Added the next day, this note from Elisa, whose bowl this was:
One of the casualties of our return from the English countryside to the Pacific coast. Three months boxed up in a boat and rattling across the length of Canada proved too much for my beloved Mason Cash mixing bowl. I used it lovingly for sourdoughs and homemade mozzarella and birthday cakes, and often let it sit out on the counter as it was ever so good-looking. I’m sure it is glad that my mother has transformed its shattered state into art, and that we will bury it at the base of a potted plant. Not a bad life, surely, but I’ll miss it.
by Marja-Leena 
Hazelnuts or filberts drying in the sun
granddaughters picked this first crop ever to be harvested from our tree
only because we cut it down before the squirrels got them all
a tree that was planted by squirrels in an unsuitable place
how we are all looking forward to a taste!
Added later, the gorgeous photo below of the nuts still with their “skins”, taken by Elisa and found on her blog
Added September 5th:
After a few days of sunning (the nuts, not me!), I could not resist the urge to crack open just a few as I wondered if they might just all be hollow as we’ve found them in the past. Indeed the first few proved to be so, but the next few had the withered and undeveloped beginnings of nuts. I suspect we picked them too early even though the squirrels had already been investigating them. I’ll wait for daughter and granddaughters to crack the rest to see if any good ones can be found. We’re all quite green regarding nut harvesting, though Elisa is a keen forager.
by Marja-Leena 
These fallen flowers are from a favourite houseplant of mine called angel wing begonia, named for its distinctive wing shaped leaves. I think these fading petals look like angel wings too.
by Marja-Leena 
late afternoon shadow play
by plants not hands
behind curtains
still hot, mid to high 20s
blessedly cooler nights
hinting autumn
by Marja-Leena 
Up close to a few of the flowers in the garden, indoors and out
by Marja-Leena 
Yesterday evening after a very hot day, and after a simple supper on the deck, we sat back in our chairs to enjoy the cooling air. I glanced up and looked at the wispy clouds in the sky. Really looked. Nothing unusual, I’ve seen more dramatic clouds, especially from airplanes, but for some reason these gave me a lovely feeling of peace and beauty. Youngest granddaughter then came upstairs with a book and asked me to read it to her as a bedtime story, but first we looked at the clouds together and I took a few photos. A simple yet deeply pleasurable evening.
