tom scott ordover gallery

tom scott's images of patterns at the beach, in sepia/natural tones and black and white. really strong and arresting images of sand patterns: capturing the earth/water interactions, the ebbs and flows of the tides and the consequence for the sands, shifting, but stilled in the 1/125th of a second. stilled sands. pebbles. rocks. seaweeds. all add texture, interest, color. i like the focus on one thing, one idea. depth.

book blog basket boulder breath brazil

weaving a life weaving a sentence weaving a word weaving a breath. right places. wrong times. wrong places. right-wing times. split. dried. coiled. twined. no need for the exotic landscape. the exotic is everywhere. the california peppers from peru. the oleanders from brazil. the palms from mexico. the jacarandas from brazil. the aloes from africa. who forgot to turn on the water. 1/125th of a second. who forgot to turn it off. how to capture something so important in 1/125th of a second. earth. wind. water. fire. wild fire. the boulders are in the middle of the sentence. obstacles. or parts of the path.

indian rock

cold. it's really cold. i email everyone, tell them coat, scarf, hat, gloves. it's southern california, so it's necessary to suggest to students what to wear on a fieldtrip when it's unusually cold. but clear too. beautifully clear following the beautiful and necessary rains . . .
we meet at indian rock. stare at the latest blue graffiti desecrating the rock. the entire front surface of the rock is defaced, the bright blue lines crossing over the diamond designs painted by a young girl hundreds of years ago during her coming of age ceremony. the bright blue lines belie the heartbreaking fact that they cover something the taggers don't understand. if they did, they might understand the necessity not to destroy the pictographs. serious graffiti artists know how little their own work is respected . . .

mugwort

mugwort is used as an antidote to poison oak. i use aloe vera, because it grows on my porch and really stops the itching.

ceanothus white

white ceanothus blooming in rainbow behind my house. bees love the flowers. tomorrow, i'll try to take a photograph with the bees . . .

cleveland sage

cleveland sage is the most intoxicating of all the native sages. these flowers seem early this year.

wild currant

today we are going to indian rock to photograph and hear grey rubin speak about the native plants. it will be cold but clear.
at about 7 this morning, i went out to photograph the wild currant, which is in beautiful bloom. the ceonothus is in bud, about to bloom, and the cleveland sage, the ones i didn't trim back in the fall, are flowering a bit. the oregon grape is also beginning to flower as well. beautiful light this morning.