Cedar Writes

Tag: beauty

  • Maple Leaf Rag

    Maple Leaf Rag

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      Art and music:  The Maple Leaf Fractal and the music that it made me think of as soon as I started to see the shapes emerge from the math. 

  • Smell the Roses

    Smell the Roses

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    Take the time today to stop and smell the roses. If you can find old-fashioned roses like these yellow ones, your nose will be in for a real treat. But don’t bother trying to sniff the expensive tea roses at a florist’s shop – they have been bred for looks, and endurance, and in the…

  • A Drive in the Country

    A Drive in the Country

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    I’ve been busy this morning. But as I finished up with the project I was working on, and got ready to dive into writing, I remembered that I needed to blog! I have a really good series planned, in conjunction with the First Reader – we laid it out and talked it through during a…

  • Art Day

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    Normally on an art day I just put up a piece of art (if I can get the one I want off my laptop onto the machine! computers… growl) and a bit of commentary. But I’m starting to research for a planned article on art, and I was curious to hear what you, my readers,…

  • Art and beauty are what?

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    I’ve written at length today over at Mad Genius Club about art, and beauty, and why we are in the sad state of art today. See More… And here’s a brilliant quote by Kristine Kathryn Rusch that was perfect to go along with it. “The first rule of being an artist is to be an artist.…

  • For No Reason

    For No Reason

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    Except I’m really tired, and I have a major exam tomorrow, and I worked all weekend, and…  A snippet from my work in progress, Pixie Noir.  The woman who answered the door was wearing the most amazing shirt. Knitted silk, I think, clung to her like a second skin, and even though it was blue,…