Gloomy Beauty — A Neutral Palette to Inspire

I am so pleased with this photo — I do hope you enjoy it as well. If you have a minute, click on it for the larger view which will fill your screen with glaucous serenity. I have more photos and a few words later on, but I’m still marking stacks and stacks — and my gloom isn’t as beautiful as this sea-skyscape.

13 Comments

  1. LPC
    14 December 2010 / 2:33 am

    Oh my goodness. Beautiful.

  2. Susan B
    14 December 2010 / 3:33 am

    Oh, it's just dreamily beautiful.

    Heh, word verification is "corses," what you're grading papers for!

  3. La Belette Rouge
    14 December 2010 / 5:44 am

    I want to download and put that as my screensaver on my iPhone. It is THE perfect picture for a moment of Zen.

  4. hostess of the humble bungalow
    14 December 2010 / 6:13 am

    Sheer perfection….makes me want to come up and visit!

  5. Patricia
    14 December 2010 / 7:15 am

    Beautiful! P.

  6. Tiffany
    14 December 2010 / 7:30 am

    Oh my goodness, that is so beautiful …

  7. Duchesse
    14 December 2010 / 3:06 pm

    As if Agnes Marin were a photographer. Would love this as a full wall mural. But then I would never go anywhere.

  8. materfamilias
    14 December 2010 / 3:07 pm

    Thanks, all — you're welcome to download and LBR, it can be my Christmas gift to you — Zen moments all year long!
    Hostess: maybe you'll boat up this way next summer. . .

  9. Anonymous
    15 December 2010 / 5:16 am

    Taking time from my stacks to visit…I am always impressed by the way the sea/ocean conveys its own mood.

  10. Duchesse
    15 December 2010 / 8:50 pm

    Dadgummit, that was "Agnes Martin". But if you crossed Agnes Martin with a sailor…

  11. materfamilias
    15 December 2010 / 9:00 pm

    Duchesse: I'd be embarrassed that I didn't know this name — except that now I have the joy of discovering a brilliant new-to-me artist. And what a compliment to be compared to her . . .

  12. Mardel
    4 January 2011 / 4:22 pm

    That photo is bliss, and my favorite colors too. I agree with the screen saver or the wall idea. I'd love a bedroom fashioned around it. And yes to the Agnes Martin as well. There are two rooms of Agnes Martin's works at Dia Beacon and it is one of my favorite places to go and retreat from the world.

  13. materfamilias
    5 January 2011 / 12:52 am

    I'm off to Google Dia Beacon . . . thanks for the tip.

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