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Return to Stanford Hospital

Three months after a stroke interrupted her peaceful retirement in Palo Alto, the survivor returned to the hospital for a MRI of her brain. Here she sits waiting to be transported to our residence at Palo Alto Commons after successfully completing the procedure in laboratories located in the old Stanford Hospital. In the background of the photo is the new Hospital where she was initially treated…

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The Morning of the Stroke

About 4 AM I woke from a deep sleep to the sounds of a nightmare; someone was calling out to me. I got up and put on slippers, and saw that my wife was on the floor by the bed. I, immediately called 911, requesting that firemen come to help return her to bed. But when the team arrived they judged that there was a serious problem and they prepared her for transport to Emergency at the newly opened…

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Sunset from My Assisted Living Balcony

Last Saturday was my first night in an Assisted Living residence. I moved here this week because my wife had a stroke, and this will be her rehab residence for a while. Looking West over El Camino towards Skyline, Palo Alto, CA Finding an Assisted Living residence with rehab facilities on short notice was fortunate, and to get this view was special. I hope you enjoy this photo shot with my…

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A Sphinx Appeared, iPhone

iPhone shots from Arizona Garden, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Stanford Family Mausoleum, by [email protected] During a recent afternoon photoshoot I was in the arboretum on the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto. While taking a photo in the Arizona Garden, I saw a spot of light shining through the trees. The sun was shining off one of the great sphinxes that guard the front entrance to the mausoleum. I raised my iPhone and took the shot you see above, but…

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Blue Chair in Bright Sun, iPhone

Sunny Day at Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park, CA Blue chairs are a disbursed throughout the three acre grounds of the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Part. This chair was too hot to sit on, but makes an interesting composition. This image was taken with my iPhone 7 in full sun. I first exposed for the bright light of the gravel. This left the flowers in the foreground in darkness so I took a second…

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A Bayland Walk

One Day, before Covid, I was sitting on a bench in the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve near the Duck Pond when I spotted a line of ants marching across the open space at my feet. I took a couple of shots with my iPhone. Later on the images were input to Adobe Illustrator; the results are shown below: The iPhone image was imported into Ai as a background; a brush was made with a stock glyph of…

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Happy Valentine's Day, 2022

Happy Valentine’s Day, 2022

My Christmas card became a Valentine this year, and even that is late… The Aloe in the from yard had a great bloom (2018). This year was even better, but I’m delayed in processing the photo. Can I blame it on Covid? No; just laziness. Cheers, Carto

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Earthsea — Dragons and Wizards

Sheltering at home gives me extra time for reading— I read in English some books I first read while studying Spanish: 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the time of Cholera, Death in the Andes, etc. Now, I’m turning to other classics: Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook, and H…

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#Charles Vess #Coloring #Illustration #Photoshop CC #Ursula K. Le Guin

Flowers on Note Cards

This year I decided to create a set of Note Cards. I printed samples on both Bay Photo and Snapfish and found that service was quicker on Snapfish. The 4-color printing on Bay was exceptional, but the extra expense didn’t seem worthwhile for note cards. The six cards I finished are shown above and in the gallery below.

The photos were taken in my…

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#Corel Painter #iphoneography #Photography #Photoshop CC #Snapfish

Montana, Petty Creek Farm

> A view of Creek Farm, 2018 (from an iPhone photo).

My sister took this shot when she returned to her apartment after a snow flurry. The image was processed in Photoshop to make an 5 in by 7 in All Purpose Card that I printed on Snapfish.

Petty Creek is in the Bitterroot Mountains, 30 miles south of Missoula MT.

Cheers, Carto

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A blog of photos taken at weaving events and exhibitions of handwoven fibers in Silicon Valley and other locations. Carto

Woven by Hand is a blog featuring woven work by members of the Black Sheep Handweavers Guild

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Hello, World

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on the blog. Logging onto WordPress, I see that the folks at Smile Software have deployed a new editor. One more thing to learn while trying to keep up with technology. (I like the dropdown caps in paragraph style.)

Bay Photo — 5×7 Creative Edge Die-Cut Folding Cards–Press Printed 4 Color

Photo taken at the California Ave. Sunday Market, pre-pandemic.…

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Three Frogs on a Lamp

Frog on Lamp

We were just about to eat lunch when I noticed that the light was good for taking a photo of the glass frog on the lamp hanging over the table.

There were two other frogs:

Another Glass Frog on a Lamp

Last Frog, Blue

Then we had lunch; it was Gail’s birthday 2019.

Nathan made the frogs; visit him at Macomber Glass Studio for more about his glass blowing.

#iphone…

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Post-haste: 2019 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition

The annual MFA thesis exhibit for 2019 is Post-haste. The on-line announcement described the work:

In Post-haste, Stanford’s four graduating art practice MFA students–Neil Griess, Sally Scopa, Stephanie Sherriff, and Livien Yin–each deliver their culminating work in our program. For two years they have traveled, learning with exquisite detail the weight and texture of what they carry, transforming both themselves and their abilities as couriers of urgent messages. In a world vanishing ever more into the digital and the disembodied, these eloquent young artists invite a delicate balance. They ask us to engage in the rigorous labor of noticing our histories, our positions and our residues in the world, as closely and in as much detail as possible, while still moving with the speed required by our urgent times. —Camille Utterback, faculty curator

Below is a sample of the works on exhibit at the Art Gallery:

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Cheers, Carto

MFA 2019 at the Stanford Art Museum The annual MFA thesis exhibit for 2019 is Post-haste. The on-line announcement described the work:

Rain in May, San Francisco, 2019

Imagine a rainy day in San Francisco in May— What better to do than visit the de Young Museum, have lunch in the cafeteria and linger to see the blockbuster exhibition: Monet: the Late Years.

From the catalog of the exhibition:

Through 52 paintings, the exhibition will trace the evolution of Monet’s practice from 1913, when he embarked on a reinvention of his painting style that led to increasingly bold and abstract works, up to his death in 1926. Assembled from major public and private collections in Europe, the United States, and Asia, including holdings from the Kimbell Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monet: The Late Years will include more than twenty examples of Monet’s beloved water-lily paintings.

—Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Here are some shots taken during that rainy Saturday in the closing days of the exhibition.

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About the Exhibition

Guarding the Photo of Monet

Back to the garage, and the trip home to Palo Alto

Cheers, Carto

Photos of Monet — The Late Years Imagine a rainy day in San Francisco in May— What better to do than visit the de Young Museum, have lunch in the cafeteria and linger to see the blockbuster exhibition: …

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Menlo Park Library, 2019

Black Sheep at the Menlo Park Library, 2019

These photos were taken of the Black Sheep Handweavers Guild exhibition at the Menlo Park Library in Burgess Park. (Click on any image below to start a slide-show; click ESC on the keyboard or the X in the upper right of the screen to exit.)