November Flying Carpet 2017

In November
The Flying Carpet
Braked not for the bad
but for the good
in the South Valley of Albuquerque

The annual 

Dia de los Muertos Marigold Parade
encourages everyone to strut their stuff
in the most outrageous 

celebration of Hispanic culture
 

The LOWRIDERS
going low 'n slow
 

The DREAMERS out in force
carrying a coffin...
“Don't bury my dream!”
 

The BUS People
say “Truth is Power”

“I just look illegal”

the VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE
is extant in all her splendor
with roses and shining aura
 

This Street Artist is
wearing his Mona Lisa Catrina
 

Everyone goes all out!!!!
 

Special thanks to Sialia and Jacob

and Marianna
who's always up for adventure
 

October Flying Carpet 2017

In October

The Flying Carpet

wanders gardens of autumn delight

taking solace from the chaos

Riotous begonias
before a morning of windowed frost

 A color poem of ivy

and Autumn Blaze Maple

One last heavenly morning glory
clinging to slanting shadows
 

Brave fall crocuses
transitory
giving threads of saffron
 

Intricacy of clematis
 

“Quincey” laden with fruit...
the apricot leaves making a golden
bed of sleep for winter
 

We bring the echeveria 

and the plectranthus
inside to feast on lingering bloom
 

and wish you an aspen glyph Halloween
 

Special thanks to Sialia, Sarah, 

and Gail and Zack
for letting The Flying Carpet
ripple through your morning gardens

 

September Flying Carpet 2017

In September
the Flying Carpet got blasted off course
by a Rocky Mountain High

 

 

Calder Mobiles suspended
in lily pond grays
at the Denver Botanic Garden
 

 

The Zeppelin Zooms
at TAXI in Denver
 

 

Wacky creativity runs amok
in a fantabulous jumble
at the studio of Susan Wick
 

 

“If walls could talk”
they'd sound a cacophony
in downtown Denver
 

 

early morning droplets
at Grand Lake
 

 

In the twinkling of an eye
The Flying Carpet believes
that there are still wondrous moments
in this broken world
 

 

Special thanks to Daniel

 

 

and Olivia

 

 

August Flying Carpet 2017

In August

The Flying Carpet

Had many close encounters 

of the Studio/ Gallery /Exhibition kind

Look close

and this is what you could see: 

Complexity Bundle

Chatoyancy Bundle

Memory of Rust

 Mystery Scroll

Tapa Bundle

Driftwood Bundle

 Harmonic Bundle

Collection of Shining Days

Ledger of Attachments

Thanks to everyone who came to visit

Dedicated to Paulus Berenson...
dancer, ceramic artist, journal maker, mentor, extraordinary being
Now "backpacking in the great beyond"” 

July Flying Carpet 2017

Hats  Off and On 

in Fanta Se  (Santa Fe)!!!!!
At Folk Art Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And at Spanish Market 

 

 

 

 

Love from The Mad Hatter

June Flying Carpet 2017

In June the Flying Carpet flew to extremes...

in both Florida and New Mexico...
a world of contrasts:

 

Slithering rain
veiling hazy palm fronds
 

 

Fierce cactus
penetrating the crystal air
 

 

Day-glo heliconia
dripping a viridian raindrop
 

 

Fragility blossom
nestling in a prickly bed
 

 

Drenched waterlilies
glistening upon an inky pond
 

 

Dusty semperviviums
unfolding an invincible spirit
 

 

palm fruits
jazzing a sinuous trash dance
 

 

Pastel echeveria
basking in the radiance
 

 

Dedicated to Henry

Special thanks to Maia