picture maker...

These pics are from a gorgeous view that is above and behind my home. Up on a seasonal dirt road that has the most breathtaking views. I think you can see 3 separate towns from up on that hill. I have been in awe of late, of the beauty that is out there in the rural countryside where I live. It amazes me how Mother Nature creates these painted pictures with the most beautiful and sublime of greens, blues and greys. I noticed on a long drive yesterday, how Mother Nature's 'uncultivated' landscapes are just so stunning. I was noticing things I have never noticed before. For example: the way beautiful vines automatically grow along roadside fences. They go on for miles. They look intentional, but they're not. I love lines and rows of trees that are also not intentional, but appear as though they are. I have always loved nature and the great outdoors, but somehow I feel a new heightened sense of awe that I had not recalled having before. And don't even get me started on my love of wildflowers! ahhh...

I am amazed at her beauty.

~Calli

photos by Calli

morning coffee ~ a series within a post...

a series of mini poems that find their way
with my morning coffee...



loving boundaries
at times,
a necessity
a form of self-preservation?

protecting the heart
from more hurt
that IT could not possibly
endure

loving boundaries
walls erected, yet with love

i love you
but
your love hurts



this soaring soul
whose heart beats for you
and
you alone

this flight
keep it going
don't give in to the night
don't make me fight

soaring on wings of past and present
coloured memories

altered views...



rain
rain
rain...

i hear you, love
i feel you
i know your scent

for you are carried on that breeze
that sensual, succulent breeze

that came and went...

rain
rain
rain...

*sigh*



bittersweet love

your love is bittersweet

your love is incomplete

i want you now

...let me love you



© Calli 2009

image source: 22_01_2008_0805315001201020196_zbys

seeing you, seeing me...

in still waters
i search
i see
i find
it is you
your reflection
looking back at me

how can this be?
have you become so near?
that my soul knows no difference
between me and thee?

the good, the bad
we had morphed
as one

then you left...

and
when it is all said and done
it is once again me
(though forever altered)
that i see
looking
back at me...

© Calli 2009

image source: zzzsearch-1

intuitive creating...

What i refer to as 'intuitive creating' created these.

drawing and painting
with absolutely no preconceived ideas
turns out to be great fun and at times, ends with intriguing results. not always a 'masterpiece' but that's okay.
i love to see what comes. it's a mystery, even to me.

~Calli

intuitive creating at...

G A R A H S T A H

hope to see you there, gems...

i would love it if you would 'follow' me at Garahstah (Picture Maker) ~ my art blog. That way you'll receive updates
automatically...

~Calli

an introspective lyric (thank you!)...the goddess speaks - part 1

I came across a poem today in a book jacket
it resonated with my recent thoughts.
I was feeling as though I have not been living to my fullest capacity.
Not feeling as alive as I should. Withering in my prime of prime's.
Knowing it's time to live. Live fully. Live more beautifully.
Kiss the skies. Let my heart open and love again. Feel the beauty,
the amber glow, let it warm, and let the waters cool,
just FEEL...feel something. There is a Goddess inside and she
wants to feel, to breathe, to live through me...

*a introspective lyric © by Calli 2009



I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.

fully alive - by dawna markova


*an experiment in creating off the cuff...

whilst listening to Diane Birch - she's fabulous! love her! go take a listen:
diane birch
image source: whispygirl1

nature's beauty...

hibiscus bloom
~ reminds me of the 'sensuality' that Georgia O'Keefe was so famous for capturing in her paintings...









my new tree









rebellious spirit ~ my Hibiscus tree up close...

nature's beauty...
as captured
as remembered
as loved...

© Calli 2009
all photographs by Calli