A wish for stillness … To travel inwards … To hold to goodness … Embrace with love
This, with Season’s Greetings, I wish to those who follow this blog, with special affection for those who have helped me so much this year. No need to name you, you know who you are!
For those who are interested, my sister emailed the basic photo taken of the frost on her car windscreen. Twenty-five miles away, I was enjoying a warm sunny day!
I played with it, tweaked it, helped it to pop. And made of it something … jewel-like. I’d been looking for an image to accompany this wish. Between my sister and I, we came up with something that fit.
crispina kemp 
Love the colours in the graphic. Blues and purples and pinks combine to look magical! Wishing you many Solstice Blessings 🙂
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I thank you.
I knew I hadn’t a suitable photo for this, and had searched without success through pixabay. And then my sister sent me a photo of frost on her windscreen. We just don’t get frost on the coast. Too much salt in the air. The photo wasn’t exactly impressive. So I played with it. BTW, I don’t have photoshop. Really all I did was to sharpen it, deepen the contrast, hit the staruration button. All oif which, with the text, was done on ms’s Polarr. Brillig. Amethysts and sapphires, I thought.
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Amethysts and sapphires – exactly! 🙂
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Gems to be found in the Underworld, in Mathonwy’s domain,. Or Pluto if you’d rather.
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Definitely Mathonwy’s. Or Hades. I love Roman history but not over-keen on their (mostly acquired from elsewhere) mythology lol 🙂
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Me neither, though the names are more widely known. I believe the Roman took much from the Etruscans (more than just the Sabian woman).
But in this instance I used Pluto because of the phrase *Pluto’s Treasure’s*, though I confess I don’t remember where that’s from. Although most folks know Hades was a god, yet the name is often applied only to his Underworld Domain of the Dead. Much like the northern Hel, both goddess and place.
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Very true (with regards to everything in your comment).
Oh, I’ve not come across that phrase before. I like it – very evocative 🙂
And yes, you’re right, many do confuse Hades the god, with the Underworld. I think the closest the name came to ever being applied to the Underworld was the House of Hades…And as for Hel, unless you know your northern European mythology, you might not ever have heard of the goddess, only the place.
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And not everyone is as deeply drenched with Indo-European mythology as you and I.
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There is a free app called PicMonkey, if you like to play with photos 😉
But you did a fab job on this one!!
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I thank you,
And Polarr does everything I want, but thanks for the thought :).
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Cool!!
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Happy Solstice!
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I thank you Dina.
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Happy solstice to you, Crispina!
Love what you did with the photo!
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🙂
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