Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Collioure Color
Just two and half hours away by car from Barcelona is the idyllic French Catalan village of Collioure. It’s natural beauty has attracted many painters including Matisse, Picasso, Derain and Chagall amongst others. We ain’t painters, but we sure loved the color!
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Bold Barcelona
Spain’s second largest city is also perhaps it’s most interesting. Innovative, vibrant and just plain beautiful! I could not help admiring the buildings and lovely wrought iron balconies so common in Barcelona. There are many, many, small alley ways here and one can get lost very easily. One minute you’re on track, and then you’re hopelessly astray.…
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Moorish Delights
I had a simple but profound realization here in Spain: that in spite of all the extraordinary architectural and natural wonders I saw, like the exquisite Alhambra Palace in Granada, the Alcazar in Seville, and The Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona, what gave me the most happiness and satisfaction was the camaraderie and laughter I found…
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Sleep Interrupted
‘Fled is that music, do I wake or sleep?’ I had one of those Keatsian moments recently while lounging in the balcony and enjoying the Florida sun, and sounds of the surf softly crashing on the beach. Heavy-lidded and on the brink of sleep but not quite – this reverie was broken by a series…
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Florida Gallery
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Skim, Skim, Skimmin’
Florida has interesting coastal birds. One particular kind, the Black Skimmer with its long bright red scissor-like bill was intriguing to me because this is the first time I’ve seen such a bird. A distinctive feature is that it’s lower bill juts a third beyond the upper. And its black and white wings are long…
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Bird Fever
Things right themselves – sometimes. A few weeks ago, while exploring a trail at the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, we came across a group of beautiful Roseate Spoonbills feeding in a mangrove marsh. Their pink feathers always remind me of peonies in the early summer. It is a quirk of nature…
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A wedding and a birthday
Being mother of the bride means that it’s much harder to go around taking photographs at the wedding. There are just too many other details to look after. Besides,we had Rayan Anastor as the photographer for our daughter’s wedding to Erik Pedersen in charming Petoskey and I was confident of her abilities. I wrote to…
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In search of the Marinesque
It is summer and for our family that means some time in our Maine cottage. The first thing I see when I open my eyes each morning there is a beautiful watercolor print from John Marin’s Deer Isle series. It speaks to me in so many ways, but is particularly striking because of its perspective.…
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