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Nov. 5th, 2025 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llia spam message reminded me of this space! So I decided, good time to visit and update.
Yesterday was, overall, a good day. I had nothing scheduled and the atmospheric river stopped soaking Portland for several hours, so I went to the Japanese Garden, ostensibly to see the fall colors. Which were as quietly, poetically spectacular as expected. Red against grey, gold against grey, two shades and textures of green on the moss covered pine tree.
But what really moved me were the sounds. The small waterfalls, crows, ravens, other bird calls, the hiss of bike tires on the damp park road nearby. And because this is a park in a city, the low ever present freeway rumble, aircraft, train horn, people chatting.
And I was thinking again how I'd paint the sound of water. Burchfield is my favorite water-in-the-woods sound painter, but how is my hand and my experience different?
Yesterday was, overall, a good day. I had nothing scheduled and the atmospheric river stopped soaking Portland for several hours, so I went to the Japanese Garden, ostensibly to see the fall colors. Which were as quietly, poetically spectacular as expected. Red against grey, gold against grey, two shades and textures of green on the moss covered pine tree.
But what really moved me were the sounds. The small waterfalls, crows, ravens, other bird calls, the hiss of bike tires on the damp park road nearby. And because this is a park in a city, the low ever present freeway rumble, aircraft, train horn, people chatting.
And I was thinking again how I'd paint the sound of water. Burchfield is my favorite water-in-the-woods sound painter, but how is my hand and my experience different?
