Tag: nature

• New England Garden: Dahlia Day and Fairy Forest

  

  It was Dahlia Day at the garden my husband Dan and I went to for the day. This New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is in North Western MA. It is nice too that libraries around MA offer passes that discount the admission price greatly, and one pass covers two people for the day. […]

  09/18/2022 11:08 am

  art, fairies, flowers, fun, garden, massachusetts, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, poetic, relaxation

• Inspiring Spaces: An Amethyst Heart and Other Photos

  

  On this blog, I may share a photo of a new arrangement or design in my home. It can refresh your mind to have things set nicely, and often it doesn’t require much addition, but making some space or arranging, for artists working at home or anyone. I tilted the amethyst gem crystal an upright […]

  09/14/2022 3:54 pm

  art, books, creative process, egypt, garden, home, interior design, literary salon we keep, massachusetts, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, peeko, short story books, wellness

• A Little Treasure I Found

  

  Update: Going fwd, I will include any new contents in a new post for the readers. 🙂 Orig. written September 13, 2022 I found this stuffed toy at a gift shop at a rest stop in Western Massachusetts. My husband noticed the shop looked like it had nice things and we looked around. I saw […]

  09/13/2022 7:27 am

  handmade, home, massachusetts, memoir stories, nature, uplifting

• Nature Plays The Same Notes

  

  After I completed my painting the previous night, this afternoon, Friday, I went out for a celebratory walk in the bright sun. I found nature playing the same notes, blossoming with the colors that inspired my latest painting from imagination: Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window. In my art, the mood felt […]

  09/10/2022 8:27 am

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• Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window

  

  “Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window” by Jade Nicole Beals Sept. 8, 2022. 11 L x 14 W sides painted, signed and dated on back by me. *I will mark paintings as ‘available’ to purchase, unavailable in private collection, or temporarily unavailable if the painting will be part of an art show […]

  09/09/2022 10:46 pm

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• Peeko Creates His Own Retreat

  

  (photo found from yesterday; lighting a little brightened to match reality) Speaking of all my “pocket talk” with my pocket sketchbooks on the blog drawings of flowers and leaves out in the field: My cat Peeko added to his cat tower…and created his very own hammock! from beneath the seat of my chair, and it’s […]

  09/03/2022 10:18 am

  art, boston, dance, home, lovingkindness, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, night, peeko, poetic, rest, vacation time, wellness, yoga

• A New Pocket Sketch: ‘Fluffy Flowers’

  

  I went back this morning to find the fluffy white flower but it wasn’t there; I’d remembered the spot had red and green wild berries and tiny purple flowers (I know not to eat them ;). I sketched most of this sitting on the grass, a spread out towel I brought beneath me, and I […]

  09/01/2022 1:35 pm

  art, boston, flowers, garden, my photography, my sketch, nature

• Pocket Sketches from the Field

  

  I packed a small bag and sketched in my pocket sketchbook at La Salette shrine and retreat center yesterday evening. I learned about sketching, everything is practice, find shade first in the field for comfort if hot, pick something and don’t worry about variety for sharing with others after, sketch what you’d like at the […]

  09/01/2022 12:07 pm

  art, boston, creative process, flowers, garden, my sketch, nature

• About The Flower

  I was happy to find the fluffy flower; I was also a little sad because the wind kept blowing its feathers and it was a very shady spot with little light and more than enough heat and humidity. I may go back to the spot today. I worked on my painting in progress and will […]

  09/01/2022 8:32 am

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• I Found a Fluffy Flower

  

  On my walk just now, I found a fluffy white flower… It is very soft and wonderful, you see. Jade

  08/31/2022 2:45 pm

  fairies, gratitude, lovingkindness, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, narrative, nature, self portraits, wellness

• A Pair of Leaves in the Rain

  

  back inside, the lamplight showed the page in a warm light I wasn’t planning to sketch or even paint today, but the fire-alarms were going to be tested today, and began, so I grabbed my purse, pocket sketchbook, a book to read, pencil, and sharpener that were on my side table. I was going outside […]

  08/22/2022 5:47 pm

  art, beauty, faith, fashion, home, love, lovingkindness, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, poetic, unity

• La Salette Shrine and Retreat Center: Talk…—and Sketch

  

  …And now it’s tomorrow, and I have two little true life stories to tell. But first, this is the setting where I am now as I tell them: I’ve just finished all of my green tea this morning from this little mug that I was going to rinse in the kitchen when I noticed how […]

  08/22/2022 9:21 am

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• Good Morning! : Miss May’s Flower Art

  

  I completed this flower art today I’d made for author and poet, Miss May Ziadeh. I’d collected flowers over the seasons, a couple fallen onto my path outside, and pressed them in a book for her… and then I’d made her a celebration memorium at my home where I’d read Miss May (as she was […]

  08/19/2022 11:05 am

  art, catholic, flowers, friendship, gifts, gratitude, haiku, handmade, interior design, Jane Kenyon, love, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, poetry books, secrets, soulmates, spirituality

• Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm by Luther Hughes

  by Luther Hughes Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm planted in front of the train station; or the yellow-black dance of the tiger swallowtail’s wings as it flees; or the echoes that follow after I thunder loud against the kitchen cabinets; or the summer fire hitched to the air we breathe—the […]

  08/18/2022 10:22 am

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• Morning Sketch from a Field Afternoon: treasures

  

  I drew this sketch this morning, with my morning tea, from a few first sketches I’d drawn yesterday—(it was still a heatwave, so I’d gone back in after a little while even with my water canteen.) I drew with pencil, eraser, and pocket-book in a little spot in nature where I could kneel beneath this […]

  08/17/2022 8:29 am

  art, boston, henry james, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, my sketch, nature, novels, poetic

• Found with a Crown…and Renewing All My Tea Cups

  

  It is morning, 7 am, and meditative teatime is winding down now for me to share your photo for today, from the spontaneous series I’d created yesterday on my walk (in Massachusetts where I live.) This is picture #2: Found with a Crown. This little plant is growing brightly on mulch and in the shade, […]

  07/26/2022 7:34 am

  boston, friendship, fun, home, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, meditation, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, philosophy, spirituality, tea, teatime, uplifting

• Thriving in Their Secret Ways (Photo Series)

  

  I’ve felt that these photos are really meant to be seen all together: & my favorite… love, Jade

  07/26/2022 7:11 am

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• Short Story Complete, Celebrate—Photo 1

  

  I completed my very short story I’d been mentioning (had to be under 800 words) tonight, and it is the first one I’ve liked of mine in a long time. My own prescription: go out for a walk, snap photos— a few tiny scenes just because I felt like it, come back inside, drink water, […]

  07/25/2022 8:02 pm

  memoir, memoir stories, my photography, nature, uplifting, writing process

• From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”

  I have an idea for the blog to share my own little lines of literary critique of May’s writings (besides my book review of her poetry book, Fleurs de Reve Flowers of a Dream, 1911), the kind of attentiveness she valued in her own reviews and critiques, ’tho would’ve rarely in her time and place […]

  07/25/2022 8:00 pm

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• To Pauline by May Ziadeh

  May wrote many free verse poems; many of her first poems were written in French. TO PAULINE by May Ziadeh But what do you become my sweet black-eyed friend? Why this long, this too long, overwhelming silence? So many days without color and so many sad evenings— Did your dear heart erase my presence? You […]

  07/25/2022 10:27 am

  20th century, egypt, french, friendship, lebanon, love, love poetry, may ziadeh, nature, poets, romantic era, sadness, translations

• What Grew There, Part 2

  

  My mind told me I must’ve been mistaken of the spot, and I’d then realized the position of the sun is a more reliable indicator, time of day, and also the shape of the trunk of the trees and the branches not just shape of leaves; I am a continuing student of nature. This, too, […]

  07/15/2022 7:38 am

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• Rose Honey in Poetry by Christina Rossetti

  A city plum is not a plum;A dumb-bell is no bell, though dumb;A party rat is not a rat;A sailor’s cat is not a cat;A soldier’s frog is not a frog;A captain’s log is not a log. * A rose has thorns as well as honey,I’ll not have her for love or money;An iris grows so straight […]

  07/11/2022 11:10 am

  19th century, christina rossetti, creative process, literary theory, nature, poetry, poets, sky

• Eyes by May Ziadeh

  

  (complete July 5, 2022) I came across this poem in Italian I’d originally found in Spanish as an excerpt. The poem “Eyes” (or “Occhi”) was written by May Ziadeh (in Italian or Spanish) most likely in the 1900s before 1941 (author b. 1886). May also wrote and published in French, Arabic, English, and German, and […]

  07/05/2022 9:15 am

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• “In the Deep, Unexpected Dark”

  May 18, 2022 In the Deep, Unexpected Dark —for May Ziadeh I cried my tears. I cried your tears on your behalf. I cried in the places where your tears melted and trickled towards mine. I felt your fears and my themes passing through me and on… I looked into your years, and wants, and […]

  07/04/2022 8:00 am

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• Because I’d Been Wishing for Your Happiness and Love

  

  (I’d wanted to rewrite this as if in the moment and my words with the pictures) On September 26, 2021, I wished through faith for your all your past pain and any present, to be sent into the earth and be transformed into something beautiful, so it wouldn’t burden you anymore. I felt this place […]

  07/03/2022 1:10 pm

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