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A few days ago I saw the moon in the daytime sky. The moment I saw it, I knew I had to use the image as inspiration for this art journal blog.
The pale moon against a light blue sky has always been a rare and magical sight for me. When I looked more closely, I actually saw the man in the moon for the first time. I saw the vague indication of a face. I had never seen it before! I suppose I had never observed the moon closely enough to see it. It’s kind of an amazing experience to see something for the first time that has been there all along.
Creating art and writing has a lot to do with observation and interpreting subject matter. I hope this eye opening experience helps me to open my thoughts when it comes to writing and creating art.
Caffeine for the Creative Soul 
The skies capture my attention quite frequently, especially during the warmer months when I am sitting outside on my deck. The birds in flight, the cloud formations and even the occasional jet on it’s way to some exotic location. I find comfort and relation in the skies.
Hi Bonnie, Thank you for those comforting and relaxing thoughts and images.
Tim
I find wonder and amazement in the night skies. I’m always amazed by those little pinpricks of light, knowing how impossibly huge and incredibly far away they are.
I look at the sky and I see the entire universe. 🙂
Hi Neeks, I’ve been fascinated with the universe since I was a kid. I wanted to be a scientist as a kid, but I didn’t quite have the mind for it.
Tim
you are so right, I use to live in california and the mountains were awesome, but drive 20-30 miles and you get an all new view of the same mountains…
great post (~_~) bows humble
Hi Art, Even the lighting alone is enough to change the landscape of the mountains – and possibly your frame of mind, too. I think all it takes is a slight shift in attitude, and a whole set of things become visible that were there all along.
Tim
Such a true observation. Thank you for the reminder. Have a wonderful day of new discoveries in the old. 🙂
Hi Laurie, You, too!
Tim
Is it just me or does the moon seem especially close lately? Soooo pretty.
Hi Allana, I’ll have to check it out. I’ll be looking for that moon again!
Tim
I remember drawing the man in the moon late one night for the first time lying on my stomach looking out the back of my boyfriend’s car in college. We were driving back from his parents house in the middle of Kansas. It was so vivid, I was so excited! The face was so clear! I still have the old sketch pasted in one of my college art journals. Thanks for bringing back that memory, Tim : )
Hi Elizabeth, That’s a great memory to have. I can’t believe it took me so long to see the face in the moon. I think when I was a kid, someone told me there was a face in the moon and I didn’t believe them. Sometimes when you don’t believe something, it can be literally staring you in the face and you can’t see it. Tim
Wow, this outlook is very inspiring and true. When I was in Drafting in College, my instructor always encouraged us to take that second look, if not a third, from any and all directions and challenge ourselves to see something different. Thank you Tim.
Hi Diana, Thanks for expanding on this idea. You always put such thought into your comments. It’s a pleasure.
Tim
Very true.
I live in the suburbs of NYC and every day see things of truly extraordinary beauty, often when I really look more closely. Last week, having driven past the same location likely thousands of times in the 22 years I’ve lived in my town, I discovered a flat stone wall beside a stream — and lay there for 45 blissful minutes listening to the sounds and staring into the sky. Now it’s my new favorite place, “discovered” because I took a much closer look at something I thought I knew.
Great post — and blog!
Thanks for your thoughts. That sounds like a really wonderful moment. So much of the land was once farmland, and those old, forgotten stone walls are the evidence of that.
Your comment on the Sat. Oct. 23rd post got my mind racing – thanks so much for the stimulating replies.
Tim