The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is the perfect place
for a tulipolic to find artistic inspiration…
Month: May 2014
Blossoms around the world
Bloggaversary
Today, May 19th, marks the One Year Anniversary of thechangingpalette.
Happy Birthday to me!
I started blogging one year ago as a complete novice with machupicchucountdown, in preparation for our trek to Machu Picchu, the adventure of a lifetime . With this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art, my recent painting of this archeological wonder seems to be the perfect way to celebrate the occasion.
Thank you to WordPress who make it all possible, to the great people at The Daily Post who have made me a better blogger (I hope), and to all of you who have been gracious enough to follow me on my journey. Over the year I have met so many of you in the blogosphere and have enjoyed your company as we have travelled together to distant lands and shared new adventures.
I look forward to Year Two of the thechangingpalette and very much hope that you will continue to join me on my journey. With best wishes…Andrew
Happy Monday everyone on this Victoria Day in Canada, and a special thank you to Suze of SLR (See Love Remember) for her great advice in her post for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring –
Oh, and the trick to keeping your tulip bouquet last for a long time: put them in a vase with only about an inch of water, refilling when needed. This prevents them from opening up completely, after which they usually quickly wither.
Thanks Suze; it worked brilliantly as you can see.
Buon Appetito!
Dolcemente, lentamente, con espressione, e con il colore.
If music be the food of love enjoy this gastronomic symphony for this week’s Photo Challenge: Work of Art…
…in which Michelle reminds us that “Art” isn’t just paintings and sculptures, it can be anything in which we find beauty and meaning – even food.
Venetian Gridlock
…for the Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move
…Ice cream! 
for today’s Daily Prompt: No Apologies…
Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move above the Bay
Snowbirds over the Bay
Perfect formation
Soaring in the blue, blue sky –
Even the geese were amazed
Sloane Square Reverie
Circle Line for one
The District for the other –
Mind the Gap between
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802
by William Wordsworth
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty;
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
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