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I love these paintings. The color of sunlight and the clear or opaque quality of the atmosphere have always fascinated me. Every evening just after sunset, I sit in my garden and watch the light change. Sometimes there's a violet hue to the light as it shimmers through the dust in the air. Such happens in an arid place lice the desert where the wind comes up every afternoon. There's the change in the warmth of the light during the day, too and Monet catches it in these paintings. In the morning, the light is clear and crisp. In the afternoon, when the sunlight is at its most intense, it glares with bright yellow qualities, especially in summer. Winter sun casts a chilling aspect. In the evening, the quality of sunlight is warmer than in morning, but seems tired and ready for sleep.

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Hi Sue! It's excellent Monet's depiction of the passage of time observing something so simple, isn't it? I was fascinated with the idea of how observing the simple can make it become very complex. The world gets more and more complicated the more you look at it.

I'm trying to investigate that phenomenon myself through my journal. I journal every day and these days I'm recording the things I see in nature. It is something magical, if you are interested, I recommend you this book: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature, is one of my favourites and talks about this topic.

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Uh-oh! Alvaro, you just tapped into my Amazon addiction. I read a few paragraphs of this minutely detailed book and added a copy to my cart. Mount To-Be-Read (TBR) is growing taller by the day. Thank you for this recommendation. It should be an awesome read for this winter and inspire me to keep an eye on the garden happenings.

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Aug 28Liked by Álvaro García

luvely, alvaro. thank you. may i ask your age? i am 67yrs.

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Hello JaCee! I am 24 years old. 🙋‍♂️

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Aug 27Liked by Álvaro García

I love this. Noticing the subtleties can really make a difference in how you view something. Slow changes can turn into big changes over time. Watching a tree go from green to brown is not an overnight process. You get to experience the yellows, oranges, and reds along the way. 😍

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Aug 27·edited Aug 27Author

Hi Jody! I completely agree with you. In my journal I used to write a lot about what I did in my day to day life, now I write a lot about what I feel in my day to day life.

I love to dedicate long texts to things as simple as the leaves falling from the tree I see in the park because of the wind or how the ants are working incessantly to transport some seeds to the anthill.

Sometimes we are so obsessed with doing things that we are not even aware of the beautiful and complex environment around us.

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Excellent post thank you!

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Aug 27·edited Aug 27Author

Thanks to you for reading me one more day. I'm glad to hear it brought you valuable content 🙏.

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