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Showing posts with label french nordic. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Whisper Of White



floating




















Whispers of Winter white.  A season of quiet light to float in...to rest soundly. 

washed by the sea
Kerrie



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Friday, September 23, 2016

Seawashed Rosary










Seawashed Rosary


















"Outside the open window the morning air is all awash with angels."
~Richard P. Wilbur


All windows are open, curtains float about the room.  The warmth of sunshine remains, while Autumn barely blows in.  The garden fades with a blush of roses.   Fog returns to the back fields in the morning dawn.  


 Rosaries are in my etsy shop

There are beautiful days ahead for my family as one of my children is marrying, another is traveling to Panama to work on a coffee plantation, and our youngest is leaving the nest.  

~Awash with angels~

washed by the sea
Kerrie






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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Roseate Summer

"And if you are a rose, I am rose shadow."
~Rumi









 "of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea."~ Virginia Woolf
























The warmth of the Summer sun nurtures the garden bringing forth an abundance of buds and blossoms.  The English and Tea Roses that we planted are growing well.    Roses are beginning to surround Sea Cottage.  We planted a cottage flower garden in our raised beds this year with only a few vegetables.  We chose white flowers and herbs.  Flowers are everywhere.  Vanilla Sunflowers, white Cosmos, white Verbena, and French thyme are spreading and flowering.  Sweet Peas climb the bamboo and their fragrance fill the air.    The Summer garden overflows with life.  

In the midst of tending the flowers I find myself pausing to sketch all that surrounds me.  Later I retreat to the studio to add the palest of watercolours.   Some of these will be listed in my etsy shop but I am also painting roses for an art show that I was invited to participate in at our local Fine Art Center this Fall.  

A Roseate Summer
and I am rose shadow

washed by the sea
Kerrie


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Friday, May 27, 2016

Of A Summer Sea





a quiet wash of the sea has come in






Sea Cottage is bathed in the white tide of a Summer sea











Peace flowing gently






"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were struck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."
~Virginia Woolf

Quiet, soft layerings of white with sun faded blues from the Summer sea.

washed by the sea
Kerrie



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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Fade Into Quiet







There is a place where my soul finds being.  Where nature's emptiness opens my capacity to breathe.  A hidden shore to lay down upon, where the gentle wind blows and the soft rain washes away my dross. The stillness becomes a song that my heart longs to hear.   

Beauty finds me and I fade into quiet. 


washed by the sea
Kerrie


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Monday, February 15, 2016

Pure Waters






"a secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see."
-Rumi
















I lay down on the barren shore and purest waters wash over me.  My long hair tangled in the seaweed like a mermaid.  A whisper of a psalm drifts through the air.

a silent soul
washed by the sea
Kerrie





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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Seawashed Sanctuary




When we bought our home its Mediterranean architecture reminded us of a Monastery.





.We envisioned the way that we would inhabit its space to create a seaside sanctuary. 





 Living in simplicity with minimal furnishings, openness, natural light and soft shades of the sea.  There is empty space and quietness that creates a sanctuary atmosphere.




 Our home has become a refuge of peace and a calm dwelling place.

 
Sacred Quiet

washed by the sea...
Kerrie

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Solitude





Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."
~Peter Minard

"Solitude is a form of meditation."
~Terri Guillemets

The peace that I find in Solitude is a calm that fills my depths.  To take the time to retreat in silence from the sounds of the world.  To turn everything off and go out into Nature.  The songs of gentle earth filling my temple. 

washed by the sea
Kerrie











Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Quiet Living

"Reverence is the nature of my love." 
~Thich Nhat Hahn







"The pure land is now or never."
~Thich Nhat Hahn


I have been on a path of embracing silence and living quietly for some time now.  I truly have found a peace that I was yearning for.  It seems as the world gets louder, I get quieter;  as it goes faster, I go slower;  and as it rises higher, I go lower.  In quieting my life I am able to listen.  My heart aches for 'the pure land'.  I  find goodness is everywhere. 

washed by the sea
Kerrie