Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Still Life: Compost with Cabbage



When I added this morning's coffee filter to my compost, which I keep in the freezer, it looked beautiful...

Speaking of freezing-- I biked to work yesterday on the bike paths. They're rutted with ice and snow, but they feel safe because they're so wide (thank you, bike path designers!):
if I did slip, I wouldn't slide into a car's path.
I didn't slip.
If you keep pedaling (slowly, in my case) and keep your eyes up, looking out ahead, momentum keeps you moving forward.
I felt a LOT better arriving at work, and then, after work, working off any crud by biking home. You know, biking in winter, you start cold, and you end hot.

This morning I looking for the Bruegel painting of hunters coming home in the snow.
I love it--I'd like to recreate it (in part) with toys.

Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565). Here in Vienna at the KHM.



Then found another famous piece of snow art (a print, not a painting):
Taiko (Drum) Bridge and the Yuhi Mound at Meguro, 1857, by  Utagawa Hiroshige (here, at the Met in NY)


4 comments:

Ms. Moon said...

I do so love that print.

Anonymous said...

Me too—would be fun to try a toy recreation! —Fresca

bink said...

The Bruegel hunters are hurrying home because the skating party (down below) has already started.

Linda Sue said...

BUT wait! your compost art is such a thing of beauty!! I love how the cabbage turned all gorgeous especially. I would wear it!