"Mystic Sun 1" - Postcard

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This week's theme at My Soul's Dark Imagination was "The Watcher".

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The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Ra Sun God" - Postcard

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Moon Behind Trees Clouds - Photograph

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I took those photographs last night as the sun was setting.

"How Was Your Winter" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "How Was Your Winter".

I am hoping that a picture tells a thousand words, and that my art piece shows how my Winter was. And Winter is not done yet: although rare, Connecticut can get snow in April.

I live in the southwest coastal area of Connecticut, which is also called the "tri-state" area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Because Connecticut has Long Island Sound, and the rest of the "tri-state" has the North Atlantic Ocean, our snow is typically "wet" snow. Having grown up here, I never knew that nice, light, fluffy snow, that states like Utah get, even existed until I was older: the snow here is usually heavy like cement. ;-)

This Winter has been unusually cold, unusually windy, and in addition to "normal" snowfall events, we have had two major snow storms that each dumped about 1.5 feet (0.4572 meters) of snow on us. During the first 1.5 foot storm, because the temperature was much lower than freezing, it was light, fluffy snow, except where I live, it ended as sleet / freezing rain, so there was an ice crust on top. During the second 1.5 foot storm, the temperature was close to freezing, so it was heavy, wet snow. And to add insult to injury: that snow stuck to the snow shovel like glue.

My name for my 2025-2026 Winter is: The Winter From Hell.

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Sunlit Snow On Trees - Photograph

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I took those photographs this morning. The steps and driveway at my house are a sheet of ice.

"Full Wolf Moon" - Postcard

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Snow On Trees - Photograph

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I took those photographs of the snow in my yard. When the storm was done, there was about 4" (10.16 centimeters) of heavy wet snow, which is the type of snow Connecticut gets, due to its proximity to Long Island Sound and the ocean.

Full Moon Behind Trees - Photograph

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I took that photograph of the pale yellow full moon last night, as the sun was setting, and the moon was rising.

Fog Sunrise - Photograph

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I took those photographs this past week.

Moon Behind Trees - Photograph

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I took that photograph this past week. There was a thin cloud cover, giving the moon a mysterious look.

Moon Behind Trees - Photograph

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I took those photographs this past week.

"Headless Horseman" - Postcard

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"Witch's Familiar" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Witches".

This is my second entry. I recently found some Medieval images that I've been using for Halloween artwork.

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"(Halloween) Full Moon (SPA Guest Host)" - Postcard

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This week I have the honor of guest hosting Sunday Postcard Art, and I chose the challenge theme "Full Moon."

Although movies like to portray a Full Moon on Halloween, it only occurs on that date every 18 or 19 years. The previous Halloween Full Moon was in 2020. The next one will be in 2039. A full moon on Halloween is also a Blue Moon, because it is the second full moon in the same month.

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"Poe - The Black Cat" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Poe (Edgar Allan)".

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Featured in the weekly sampler.

"Crazy Architecture" - Postcard

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The July 27 My Soul's Dark Imagination theme was "Crazy Architecture".

I based this on a poem, but took some poetic licencse with it, because that is not a pine tree.

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THE PINE LADY

O have you seen the Pine Lady,
Or heard her how she sings?
Have you heard her play
Your soul away
On a harp with moonbeam strings?
In a palace all of the night-black pine
She hides like a queen all day,
Till a moonbeam knocks on her secret tree,
And she opens her door with a silver key
While the village clocks
Are striking bed
Nine times sleepily.

O come and hear the Pine Lady,
Up in the haunted wood!
The stars are rising, the moths are flitting,
The owls are calling,
The dew is falling;
And, high in the boughs
Of her haunted house
The moon and she are sitting.

Out on the moor the night-jar drones
Rough-throated love,
The beetle comes
With his sudden drums
And many a silent unseen thing
Frightens your cheek with its ghostly wing;
While there above,
In a palace builded of needles and cones,
The pine is telling the moon her love,
Telling her love on the moonbeam strings —
O have you seen the Pine Lady?
Or heard her how she sings!

— Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)

"Mist In The Moors 2" - Postcard

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This week's My Soul's Dark Imagination theme was "In the Mist in the Moors".

One of my favorite stories is The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, which takes place mostly in Dartmoor, which is an "area of moorland in Devon, England". This is a horizontal version of two similar art pieces.

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"Mist In The Moors 1" - Postcard

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This week's My Soul's Dark Imagination theme was "In the Mist in the Moors".

One of my favorite stories is The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, which takes place mostly in Dartmoor, which is an "area of moorland in Devon, England". This is a vertical version of two similar art pieces.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"The Wendigo" - Postcard

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The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

"Pink Moon" - Postcard

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This week's My Soul's Dark Imagination theme was "Pink Moon".

It's hard to see, but I added a skull overlay to my Full Pink Moon.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)