Simply..looking....

16/11/2014

..twice before crossing the road. Or three times, since Heather, alert, savvy, streetwise and old enough to cross the road, was knocked down by a car. Small bruises, big fright! She was so sure she had looked..

Also -
Looking at the possibility of some travel next year
Looking for that list I made, I know I put it somewhere safe
Looking around me and feeling happy that I live in such a lovely place
Looking into cookery books with renewed interest
Looking over blog posts of past Novembers (see sidebar)
Looking back to look forward (sometimes that feels necessary)
Looking up at the wintry stars
Looking down and sweeping up leaves

Looking. It's what I do, as an artist.

What are you looking at/for/into/over.....? I love it when you share.

Whatever you do remember to look both ways when crossing the road!

6 Comments

Cathy

16/11/2014 06:44:05 am

Having been hit by a car with broken bones & out of commission for a whole summer when I was young, I'm thankful Heather's not hurt badly.
Tonight, I'm looking for peaceful, uninterrupted sleep...something that rarely happens.

Freda

17/11/2014 03:51:33 am

That must have been an awful experience Cathy. Heather is fine thankfully, and I do hope you got a good night's sleep.

Swissrose link

16/11/2014 07:04:06 pm

Yesterday I could hardly look enough at the beautiful rolling pre-alpine landscape on the way there, with the pretty farmhouses and towering mountains, and then could hardly tear my view away from the lakeside treescape on the way back… a day of overfilling my eyes :)
So lucky!!!

Freda

17/11/2014 03:52:43 am

That sounds glorious! I find it lifts my spirits to look at wonderful landscape.

cath

17/11/2014 02:52:30 am

Over the past months I have been clearing my room. Weeded my books again, which has become so much easier since I've arranged them thematically. Now - after six years- it is no longer the room I used to work in when my office elsewhere was too hectic for creative thinking. Today like on other days I sat there.To look at the space, to experience it. It has been like shedding a skin and I feel vulnurable in the new one. It also is inviting but I don't yet know what the invitation is for.
Your last two 'Looking' lines are almost a haiku. As I find them beautiful here is one in return, by Basho:

Chrysanthemum's scent
in the garden a worn-out sandal
just the sole

Freda

17/11/2014 03:54:57 am

Thank you for the beautiful haiku (and the compliment!) I can imagine you looking, feeling and waiting expectantly in your room...

Simply..looking....

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