Comments on: Revisiting Swords

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:19:46 +0000

Old buildings say so much if we listen!! A pink toilet seat…would like to see a photo of that?

Cheers

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:48:00 +0000

Thanks everyone…!
I was actually so flabbergasted by the pink toilet seat, I forgot to photograph it! I’ll get that next time too…

By: Robn Easton

Robn Easton — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:58:21 +0000

What a GREAT story Michelle. I wish I was there to explore with you. I LOVE this post, all of it. The painting is extraordinary as are the photos. My word you are talented. I loved the part about the pink toilet seat and then the part about the old brothel our the back. Oh yes, there is definitely a return trip to explore that. I just LOVE LOVE exploring old buildings. There is just something sooooooo irresistible about them. I’m drawn to them like a magnet. I not only thrive on exploring them, but love photographing the way they slowly weather and return to the earth.

I also was struck by the way you made the grass and flowers bend in your painting. It adds such a LIFE and motion to the painting. When I lived in Maine I would see whole fields that looked just like this. You did an excellent job of completely capturing that.

Last thought: It’s like these old buildings are just saturated with memories. Maybe that’s what I feel when I am around and in them. As if the very wall boards have absorbed all the years of voices and emotions of their occupants.

You are amazing!! Thank you dear Michelle.I so enjoyed this. Sending you hugs, Robin

By: kaslkaos

kaslkaos — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:28:12 +0000

Great stories as usual, and full of the melancholy of the loss of our history, but you help spread the memories to all of us.
Ermm. and after all that eloquence, um…jeepers, I’d love to see the pink toilet seat!

By: Kinsey Barnard

Kinsey Barnard — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:02:32 +0000

General store rendition just lovely!

By: Linda Blondheim

Linda Blondheim — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:26:27 +0000

Great phtos and story Michelle, especially the pink Toilet seat :>)

Love,
Linda

By: Jennifer Rose

Jennifer Rose — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:14:14 +0000

see its stories like the one that the ladies said that makes it sad when these old building get ruined, they are so many stories behind a lot of these buildings. and a story like that would get the next generation into looking at the history of the area.