georges braque. fauvist. co-creator of cubism.

I started out this morning looking for fall pictures done by Henri Matisse. I found myself enraptured by Georges Braque.

How many of you have heard of the fauvism style of painting? If you have, do you agree that it rulz? If not, google it and let me know what you think.

quotes attributed to georges braque:

• Art upsets; science reassures.
• If a painting doesn't disquiet, what is it?
• A good painting never stops giving of itself.
• I made a great discovery. I don't believe in anything anymore. Objects do not exist for me, except that there is a harmonious relationship among them, and also between them and myself. When one reaches this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual void. This was everything becomes possible, everything becomes legitimate, and life is a perpetual revelation. This is true song.
• I have found painting to be a means of hanging up my ideas. This enables me to change them and avoid any fixed idea.
• The painting is complete when the idea is obliterated.
• Form and colour do not merge,there is simultaneity

coral mushrooms

Bob, my boyfriend, and a buddy of his have a spot they go where the coral mushrooms (aka staghorn fungus) grow. There have to be special environmental conditions, such as deep in pine needles and the area has been burned by fire at some point, in order for coral mushrooms to grow. According to Bob, the ones shown here are 1/3 of the total amount they found. They grow within clumps of moss.

Bob first soaked them overnight in salt water, to remove any little critters that were munching or living in them. Then he sauteed them with butter. I cannot describe how they tasted, other than to say delicious and meaty. YUM.

old tools make pretty centerpieces

you may or may not know what this is. i'm betting you don't. along the lake by where i live, for years, for a large portion of the lake property, it's been overgrown for decades after the heyday of the lumber era. more recently the overgrowth has been getting cleared. this summer they constructed a bike path along the lake. this is one of the discoveries along the path. it is a thing that is used for huge ships to tie their lines around. there is a line of them running along what used to be a huge docking area. each one is about 20 feet from the water.