Fall is my favorite time of year.
My husband and I took a drive out to Golden Gate park in the foothills last weekend. Here are a few pictures I took.
I love seeing the trees change from green to gold, the aspens shimmering in the breeze giving off their golden light.
When they are lit from behind, they positively glow.
My husband and I took a 4 day trip to Santa Fe to celebrate our anniversary and his birthday.
What a wonderful place to be inspired by the art, architecture, history, and food!
This is a picture of me standing in front of the sculpture garden at the Wilford Gallery on Canyon Road.
One of the things I love about Santa Fe is that there is always a surprise around every nook and cranny. There might be a beautiful, old, and rustic carved door or a quaint, inviting courtyard covered with vines and enclosed with a twig fence with graying bark.
I can’t believe I forgot to charge the battery on my small camera that I carry so I only got a few pictures.
We visited old cathedrals and churches, the Georgia O’Keefe museum, and enjoyed meals on shaded patios.
Santa Fe has a distinct style that gives you the feeling you have been transported to another time and place.
Whenever you make a choice to invite new sights, sounds, tastes, and experiences into your life, your world expands.
If you learn to fly fish, grow tomatoes, train a guide dog, take a class in Japanese Tea Rituals, painting, or writing poetry, your experience of the world becomes a little richer.
One of the great benefits of creating art for me has been the way I look at things. What would have once looked like a dull and bland landscape of endless fields comes alive with variation and depth of color, with 7 shades of yellow and gold.
Another more obvious way to expand your world even more is to travel. It doesn’t have to be anything exotic but the more different the place is than what you are used to, the more your senses are awakened.
Your mind loves comparisons and will search for things that are different and compare similarities as well.
All of these things stimulate your creativity and accumulate treasures of experiences and memories as you learn about yourself in the process.
How will your expand your world?
Jewelry Artist. Fine Artist, and Creativity Blogger
