Doctor HP Flowers

Cerulean Dream

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There's more to a dream
Than meets the eye.

    

© r0064-06  Cat by Night Lamp
  Riverview Hotel
  St. Marys, Georgia
  Monday 24 September 1984

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Pimp My Ride

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     Hey Street Wise Mike, what's the provenance of this stunning work of art before I pimp it away.  Daring Doc

     Hey Daring Doc, this oblique front view is definitive.   It's a Chevy Monte Carlo, body style/grille/headlamp configuration is consistent with that for the 1973 through 1978 model years.  Would need to see tail lights to pin it down closer.  There were very subtle differences in tail lights during that body style run.  Body panels, hood, doors, etc. are all the same and interchange between those years.  Headlights differ but this race car has been so modified on the front end it is not possible to discern what kind of headlights it started out with.   '73 through about '75 (I think) had a single round headlight on each side.   In '76, or so, they went to that goofy over-under rectangular headlight morphology.  The '79s were radically different... downsized for lighter weight and greater fuel efficiency... engine went from standard V-8 to standard V-6, etc.  Street wise, Mike

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© d070602-027  Blue Number 11
  Morgan County, Kentucky
  Saturday 2 June 2007

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Faarr Out

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I pinch myself
Rub my eyes and swear
To tell no tales.

    

© d071023-035  Aster
  Fairfield County, South Carolina
  Tuesday 23 October 2007

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Purple Trunks

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     Take away a little green in all the wrong places and right things can happen.  A fluky propitious mistake, like this, can strip away my blinders and puncture my narrow-mindedness and predilections.  "Think outside the box," they say.  Trees can have purple trunks!

    

© d070531-015  Trees by Camp
  Beech Fork State Park
  Lincoln County, West Virginia
  Tuesday 31 May 2007

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hi-key avoidance

     I love hi-key photographs but find myself continually pushing for saturated colors and contrasts.  It's a risk avoidance mechanism of some sort that I do not appreciate.

© d070414-016 Nodding Trillium
  Trillium cernuum
  Chattahoochee National Forest
  Lumpkin County, Georgia
  Saturday 14 April 2007

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Stamp Lickin' Days

     We used to send penny post cards knowing the Postmaster would read each one and spread the gossip.  He was also like an uncle to me.  For a young kid his post office was a neat place to hang while sampling community moods as they breezed in and out.  In those days the grown ups made me feel like an adult by allowing me to lick their stamps. Until, that is, I discovered the deception.  Now, each time I pass an authentic country post office I sense and taste glue on my tongue.

© 1386-16 Country Post Office
  Upper Tract, West Virginia
  Pendleton County
  Friday 27 May 2005

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Group of Seven

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     Guilty?  Yes, as charged.  I did add some red to the yellow leaves in front and darkened the tree trunks a bit.  An exercise in psycho-morphosis that troubles some "objectionable alchemy", and enthuses others "heavenly inspiration".
     Beyond this dustup - anyone who appreciates rich, luxurious and stunningly beautiful landscape art must get to know the Group of Seven.  A hundred years ago, for some weird reason, painters didn't take the Canadian landscape seriously.  In 1920, to remedy this lapse seven outdoorsy artists influenced by European impressionism joined to reshape how Canadians viewed their own country and develop a brand of landscape art uniquely Canadian.  They succeeded masterfully, with colors I can taste and a broad thoroughly modern style.  Check 'em out at the links:

     Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
     McMichael Canadian Art Collection
     Artchive:  Canadian Group of Seven

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© r1410-24  Fall Leaves
Artist:  Doctor Flowers
Yancey County, North Carolina
Saturday 22 October 2005

Title:  Red Maples (no date)
Artist:  Lauren Harris
School:  Canadian Group of Seven

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Throwdown

No if's
No and's
No butt's
Doin' Taxes

    

© d060402-012  Box-o-Butts
  Dallas, Georgia
  Paulding County
  Sunday 2 April 2006

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Playtime Panogram

Gradual abstractions
Challenge one's convictions.
So, bundle your beliefs
And buckle up.

    

© r1136-10  Coker Creek Fire Truck
  Monroe County, Tennessee
  Friday 3 November 2000

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The Unreported

Posting Number 300.

Randolph County, WVa.
Friday 31 May 1985

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