WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: ESCAPE

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WP Blogger Cheri says ~ share a picture that means escape to you.  

Do you look at faded photos? Do they make you dream inside?

I used to paste random photos into scrapbooks in hopes that from those archival pages I might salt away The Stories.

I have no memory of what it was like not to be able to ride a bike or tie a knot. But I can build memories out of sepia snapshots, escape the now and throw a party for the distance I have come.

 Toni 5/18/13

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: PATTERN

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Antoni Gaudí, art, Barcelona, Park Güell, postaday, postaweek 2013, Tile, weekly photo challenge

WP Blogger Sara says ~ Patterns are everywhere, sometimes intentional, sometimes accidental. 

I saw these multi-colored tile mosaics in Barcelona.  Eusebi Güell commissioned the construction of a stylish park for the aristocracy. Park Güell is an intoxicating feast of stone structures, twisting rock pillars and vibrant mosaics. At the top of the park is a spectacular terrace with a panoramic view of the city and this reverberatingly beautiful seating by Antoni Gaudí.

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Toni 5/11/13

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: FROM ABOVE

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WP blogger Sara Rosso says to find a subject and instead of taking a picture from in front of, at an angle, to the side, or from behind, take it directly from above.

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This is the inside of my grand piano.  It’s where the action is.  Literally.

The action is a large collection of many moving parts that all work together so that the hammer hits the string(s) at the right time.  When a hammer hits a string, the string vibrates ~ and the way that the string vibrates is what makes a piano sound like a piano and not a guitar or a harp.

Some ingenious design. The pianoforte was invented almost entirely by one artful Italian ~ Bartolomeo Cristofori of Padua, Italy.

Want to see his supreme artistry in person? His oldest surviving piano is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Here are my favorite five quirky virtuosos from Utah. Watch them put a new spin on an old classic.  And then ~ do try this at home.

Toni 5/6/13