Tag: #JanuaryLight

Candlelight

The new January Squares challenge, hosted as ever by Becky, the Queen of Squares, is all about ____light. In this often dull month light of any kind is what we all need to lift our spirits as we wait impatiently for spring to begin. Click on the link to find out more.

candlelight

A votive candle or prayer candle is a small candle, typically white or beeswax yellow, intended to be burnt as a votive offering in an act of Christian prayer, especially within the Anglican, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic Christian denominations, among others The size of a votive candle is often two inches tall by one and a half inches diameter though tealights are commonly used.

candlelight (noun) = dim light provided by a candle or candles.

January Squares | Day Seven

Skylight

The new January Squares challenge, hosted as ever by Becky, the Queen of Squares, is all about ____light. In this often dull month light of any kind is what we all need to lift our spirits as we wait impatiently for spring to begin. Click on the link to find out more.

Skylight or Rooflight

This might be a risky choice because actually there is no glass in this roof opening, but Becky is pretty flexible as long as it’s square. Which it isn’t of course, it is most definitely oval though the frame is square…

I’ll shut up now.

This striking Skyscape is the American artist James Turrell’s celestial observatory stationed on a hilltop in the Tremenheere Sculpture Garden just outside Penzance in Cornwall : from the circular bench inside you become mesmerised by the bright white walls and contrasting roof open to the weather – in this instance an azure blue sky that looked as though it had been painted on the ceiling. I can’t imagine what it must be like to watch clouds drifting across or even stars!

I have seen another of Turrell’s installations, Skyspace, in Canberra. He certainly gets around!

skylight (noun) = an opening in a roof or ceiling, fitted with glass, for admitting daylight.

January Squares | Day Six

Limelight

The new January Squares challenge, hosted as ever by Becky, the Queen of Squares,  is all about ____light. In this often dull month light of any kind is what we all need to lift our spirits as we wait impatiently for spring to begin. Click on the link to find out more.

in the limelight

Whenever I go walking in the lanes the local cattle always seem to be curious enough to watch me go by. These three rather handsome young lads weren’t about to turn their backs on me. It would have been nice if they could have moved a bit more closer to each other, but I wasn’t going to step into their field and start issuing instructions. (PS They are not as pretty as the little coos I met on Christmas Day)

limelight (noun) = the focus of public attention.

January Squares | Day Four

Backlight

The new January Squares challenge, hosted as ever by Becky, the Queen of Squares, is all about ____light. In this often dull month light of any kind is what we all need to lift our spirits as we wait impatiently for spring to begin. Click on the link to find out more.

Backlighting A prunus serrula (Tibetan Cherry)

A magnificent small garden tree for year round interest its most prominent feature is its tactile, silky, polished bark. The smooth, mahogany bark peels in translucent cinnamon and honey coloured sheets to reveal a fresh new hue of bronze-red gloss beneath. Caught in autumn sunlight this tree almost glows.

Common Name: Tibetan cherry tree, birch bark cherry, birchbark cherry, paperbark cherry

backlight (verb) = illuminate from behind.

January Squares | Day Three