March Flying Carpet 2018

  In March
The Flying Carpet

thinking of past Springs

 wiggles

in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

reflects at Jojuin Garden in Kyoto

 

wishes on wisteria 

at Monet's garden in Giverny

gets caught in a 

bougainveillea downpour

in Mexico City

gobbles Easter treats in Barcelona

 and dyes Easter Eggs

with Maia and Danny

 

Special thanks to our 

brave, eloquent and savvy 

young Americans

February Flying Carpet 2018

In February the Flying Carpet
cruised the clotheslines of the world
for all of you
who feel you've been exposed to too much dirty laundry
clogging your screens, eyes and brains

Monklet laundry in Thailand

Color coded laundry in Burano

Laundry to dye for 

in Luang Prabang in Laos 

at Op Pop Tok
 

Dragon Laundry??? at Op Pop Tok 

Laundry along the Mekong, Laos
 

fishing net and laundry
riverside village, Laos
 

Laundry against Lisbon tiles

and in the Alfama district
 

and against street art 

(Photo by Zack)
 

Friend Eugenie contributes Shanghai laundry
 

What did Frida's clothesline 
look like in Mexico City?
 

The Flying Carpet hopes you feel
clearer and brighter now
 

January Flying Carpet 2018

In January The Flying Carpet

skedaddled

"On the Road Again" 

and lingered for a spell in Denver.

At the Tourney Transportation Museum

there were many 

distinguished elderly gentlemen...

some creating quite a spectacle

some with Royal pretensions 

some swashbuckling, buttery, and suave

some dipsomaniac and smashed

and elegant bicycles 

caught in patterned stillness

The prow of the

Denver Art Museum

jutting into the sky

Shadowplay

at the Clifford Still Museum

Hightailing it back to Santa Fe

for the Women's March

Special thanks to the William Havu Gallery 

in Denver
for their current exhibit Shape Shifter/ Zachariah Rieke
http://www.williamhavugallery.com/category/zachariah-rieke/
 

December Flying Carpet 2017

In December the Flying Carpet 

swoops into your world

after the hilarity and silliness of the season

 

 

and coziness 

and hopefully merry and bright
 

 

and the dazzlement of lights
filling the darkness

 

 

and the “chill of a wintry light”
and the early closing of our days

 

 it's time to look to new genesis

 

 

and to open the New Year

 

 

A bumper sticker glimpsed yesterday
says it all:

“Make America gracious again”

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