Winter’s Lace

Posted on April 2, 2015 by treshabarger

Winter’s Lace

Filigreed fingertips, leftovers from last spring’s new growth
One cannot tell by looking which will survive the winter
With bare branches, death resembles life, life resembles death

Only through winter’s lace
Can one see the honesty of a tree or vine
The nests of life harbored within
Invisible behind the swaying foliage of summer

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April is Poetry Month. Last year I participated in and completed the challenge to write a poem every day in April. This year my challenge (to myself) is to improve my drawing skills. I may not write a poem a day this month, but I won’t neglect poetry completely. (Remember: You can do anything, but you can’t do everything. ~~ David Allen)

Bass Clarinet, Sketch 062

Posted on April 1, 2015 by treshabarger

Not sure how this would sound

by Nicola Papalini, circa 1810; Chiaravalle, Italy; Olive wood, brass

Sketch 062: Bass Clarinet in C, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

Ephemeral: Weekly Photo Challenge

Posted on April 1, 2015 by treshabarger

Texas is in a drought and has been for the last several years. This spring central Texas received some rain and the waterfall at McKinney Falls State Park was flowing. We don’t expect it to last long. Once the heat gets here it will dry up, with hardly enough for a trickle.

Spring 2015 rain results

Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral

Lute, Sketch 061

Posted on March 31, 2015 by treshabarger

Maybe could make music

1596; Augsburg, Germany; Wood, various other materials

Description from the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

The back of this Renaissance lute is constructed of twenty-five ebony or rosewood ribs with ivory spacers, and its top is Alpine spruce. It was probably originally made for seven or eight courses (pairs) of strings, but in the seventeenth century the neck, bridge, and pegbox were replaced or modified to give the instrument a Baroque configuration. In the nineteenth century, the neck was reduced, fixed frets were added, and the instrument was changed to six-strings, like on a guitar.

Sixtus Rauchwolff had an excellent reputation in his day and was a maker of lutes for the prominent Fugger family and the court orchestra in Stuttgart. A label inside the instrument identifies him as the maker and 1596 as the date of the lute. The name of Matthias Hummel, who probably made the Baroque alterations to the instrument, also appears.

Sketch 061: Lute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889