04 Friday Mar 2022
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In visions of lavender, blue, aqua and green. Soft colors with bold impact! Beautiful art for your soul. 🙂
23 Saturday Oct 2021
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abstract art, Colorful Art, flower, flower art, flower prints, flowers, flowers art, iris, iris prints, irises, lavender, modern, modern art, modern decor, modern decorating, modern decorating ideas, modern flower, modern home, purple, purple abstract, purple abstract art, purple art, sharon cummings art, wild iris
Purple irises are my favorite flower. Modern floral art for everyone!
16 Saturday Oct 2021
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bathroom decor, bathroom decorating, bathroom decorating ideas, bathroom ideas, Children, clover, Colorful Art, four leaf clover, funny, gifts for kids, green art, happy art, lavender, luck, lucky, lucky charm, polka dots, sharon cummings art, whimsical art
I’ve got you covered with this whimsical four leaf clover with lavender polka dots! Good luck!
23 Thursday Sep 2021
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10 Wednesday Mar 2021
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bird, bird art, birds, birds of a feather, colorful birds, counting crows, crow, crows, lavender, mandala, mandala art, mandalas, pink, pink art, raven, ravens, sacred mandala, sharon cummings, sharon cummings art, spirit animal, spirituality
Or as the crow flies into a beautiful mandala sky! Relax. Let it draw you in…
06 Tuesday May 2014
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botanical, common weeds, eco, flower, garden, gardening, lavender, macro, macro photo, macro photography, natural, nature, painting, petal, petals, plant, plants, purple, sharon cummings, spring, summer, weeds, wild, wildflower, wildflowers
I went outside today to see if there were any flowers left blooming. In Florida we have a short Winter and then a handful of nice Spring days with bursts of color everywhere. The azaleas…….the bromeliads……and then it all dies………….9 months of HEAT. Not much grows in Summer except the grass and weeds. All of my irises are brown and crispy looking. The lilies look like beef jerky. But this little group of tiny dancers was still celebrating, so I snapped them quickly before the sun was full in the sky.
I will be in my studio painting now for a good long while……..expect some new acrylic work very soon!
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18 Friday Apr 2014
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Yesterday me and the hubby went on a little field trip. We found our way to the Florida Botanical Gardens in Pinellas County. Somehow in all of these years in Tampa, this gem has been hidden from me. We frequently drive down to Sarasota to enjoy the Selby Gardend, but this place was also amazing! So many flowers all out in the open to see and smell. The winding paths lead to many beautiful surprises. Plus there is a little heritage village with old houses and buildings that were to be destroyed, but were saved and moved here. What a treat!
It is a macro lens photographer’s delight. 🙂
24 Monday Mar 2014
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Wildflowers that is.
It’s Spring here in Florida and all of the beautiful flowers are in full bloom. We went out on a photo shoot this weekend and there were so many to choose from. Hibiscus and bougainvillea were plentiful. And the stargazer lilies were absolutely stunning! But as I was snapping away, I realized with a macro lens I can find beauty far beyond the typical floral fare. So I got on my hands and knees and started looking at the plants and flowers along the raggedy fences. The little “weeds” and scrubs had my full attention for the day. I was absolutely amazed at the beauty I found in these things we normally mow down and look over. It’s another world of magnificence!
The lavender specimen above revealed to me the most delicate purple hairs with dancing bursts of yellow rimmed in black. Seriously WILD! The yellow soft surprise below opened it’s inner world to me with a show of orange and delicate veins.
Nature: I bow to you in even your seeming insignificance. I no longer see “weeds” in my garden. 🙂
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07 Friday Mar 2014
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I am talking about MEDITATION. Can you meditate? For years I tried to bring this practice into my life. After all, I am a type A personality. And I am not talking an A- either. I excel at motivation and drive. I do not stop until I get the job done kinda gal. I always knew it would be good for me to learn how to mentally “check out” and just “be. I just did not know how to accomplish it. I read books, watched videos and listened to tapes. But I just could not relax and I certainly could not just observe my thoughts and let them pass through like leaves in the wind without attaching myself to them. It was frustrating which did not help me feel better. In fact, it did the opposite. Every time I’d try and fail I would feel like something was wrong with me. Until…..
About 7 years ago I developed some peripheral neuropathy as a result of a stomach virus. They call that side effect Guillain-Barré Syndrome and I was lucky that mine was mild. Some people end up on life support for awhile and others die. I just had pins and needles in my hands and feet. I got off easy. Anyway, in a quest to get relief from this annoying buzzing in my extremities, I happened upon a device called a “Rebuilder” which was being used to treat diabetic neuropathy with great success. It was FDA approved and insurance would cover it if there was a medical need. Sign me up!
I ordered and received my equipment which consisted of a small rectangular box with 2 dials and electrodes that you attach to the bottom of your feet and palms of your hands. I am not too keen on electricity passing through my body, but I gave it a go. It felt kind of strange…like tickling but I tolerated it well. Once I got used to my 30 minutes a day I started to realize something. When I used it, I could mentally “check out” and not focus on my thoughts. I did not fall asleep. In fact, I’ve tried it for insomnia and it never works. Instead it puts me into a deep relaxation where my brain can take a breather. When I snap out of it. And that is what I do…after about 15 minutes of relaxation I snap up and feel so refreshed it is amazing.
It did heal my neuropathy over time, but it gave me so much more. The ability to relax and finally…..meditate!
27 Thursday Feb 2014
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A few people have said that my new series “Transforming Energy” is hypnotizing. I’ve never been hypnotized and am uncertain if it would even be possible. I am pretty strong willed. Also I am not very open to suggestion nor does the placebo effect work on me. I do not believe everything I hear/see and I do not trust doctors very much. Not that hypnotists are doctors, but to my mind they are close enough in principle. Additionally as a survivor or childhood abuse I know I would not be comfortable with this practice even if it could work on me. How could you trust anyone with your psyche like that? I’d have to have my husband or sister with me and wouldn’t they get hypnotized too? At any rate, I do find it fascinating.
The term “hypnosis” comes from the Greek word hypnos which means sleep. The words “hypnosis” and “hypnotism” both derive from the term “neuro-hypnotism” (nervous sleep) coined by the Scottish surgeon James Braid around 1841. Braid based his practice on that developed by Franz Mesmer and his followers (“Mesmerism” or “animal magnetism“), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked.
There is a belief that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep, but contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness.[7] Subjects also show an increased response to suggestions.[8] In the first book on the subject, Neurypnology (1843), Braid described “hypnotism” as a state of physical relaxation accompanied and induced by mental concentration (“abstraction”).[9] Source Wikipedia
I like the last description “state of physical relaxation” and “mental concentration”. Maybe I will have to try “self” hypnosis. 😉
Abstract Art by Sharon Cummings 