The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist

Friday, October 28, 2011

My sister, brother-in-law, niece and her two little boys are en route from Ohio for the weekend. I am busy preparing the guest rooms, etc. Full plate on my schedule today so I leave you with this fellow. He is high on the shelf at Black Dog Salvage, Roanoke's premier outlet for salvaged architectural elements and antiques ~ 40,000 square feet filled with antique wrought iron, mantles, doors, windows, vintage hardware and plumbing, stained glass, period lighting, garden statuary, old house parts, custom furniture, and more. Black Dog Salvage is one of my favorite places to go and worthy of a full blog post one day soon. But for now........I wonder if this guy will be coming down off his shelf to celebrate Halloween with his friends...................
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~Photo by Audrey

6 comments:

OmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirts said...: very cute...Happy Hallowoonie. Oma Linda; October 28, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Anonymous said...: Oooh seriously spooky. Enjoy your weekend. xox Corrine; October 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Jan said...: I'm not sure about that guy but I'm really nervous about that hag in the left upper corner! I don't think I'd want to take an apple from her!; October 28, 2011 at 8:54 PM
yoborobo said...: He looks very friendly! See? He's waving to me! hahah! Enjoy your company and be good. ;) xo; October 29, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Ces Adorio said...: Accckkkk! They will be greeted by this? Hahahahah! So creepy.; October 30, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Deborah said...: Oh I love him! I passed Dead Bob onto Alice and her Man, and he now sits proudly atop their beautiful kitchen cabinets! **kisses** Deb; October 31, 2011 at 11:48 AM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.