Cellar Door Musings

Cellar Door Musings I roam many places, often inspired by what I see. I invite you to explore what I have captured! Ask me about similar themes. I can show more!

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It’s amazing what happens when you work on something to make someone you love happy. I’m the type of artist that will ...
09/02/2026

It’s amazing what happens when you work on something to make someone you love happy.

I’m the type of artist that will be extremely inspired by photos I take at somewhere “really cool”, throw a few up and then forget about them. (You know, maybe I need to look at that.🤣) Sometimes pictures come up on my photo memories and I’m like, “What the?? Wow! I did that and totally disregarded it. It’s beautiful!” (Strange I’m saying that as it occurs to that it’s the simple answer to my greatest loss I’m actually going to be touching on.)

I’ve been estranged from my older son for a few years now. It’s absolutely a choice that he has every right to make. Especially since the estrangement gives me the tendency to reach out in strange ways. But it’s felt soul crushing. Considering the feeling of loss on my end, I’d like to think that I handle it pretty well. Because there are innumerable reasons why I can’t ever be one of those Mothers who acts like they don’t understand. That would be embarrassing for both of us. Anyway, as I tend to do… I digress.☺️😅

Anyway, recently he and his long term partner have moved a distance from their “natural habitat”. They have definitely enjoyed that habitat. So it occurred to me when this photo CAME UP ON MY PHOTO MEMORIES to make them a photo mosaic of some places in the mountains that we have all explored and enjoyed. For their new home together. I found myself editing this picture in a way that I thought would make them feel happiness. Instead of the way that I might otherwise.

As I realized that was what I was doing, it prompted this thought. Maybe that’s what real love is. Not the act of doing things to passify the people in your life to get the outcome that you want. But doing things differently because you truly want them to feel joy and be well.

The most interesting part about all of this for me, is that before I realized any of these things fully… This photo became my favourite image of the mountains that I had ever done.🗻🌄🗻

09/01/2026

I went walking on the beach last night and I found this on the shore. I was told finding the bones of Buffalo was fairly common here and that’s likely what it is. I did some reading on it and I think it’s pretty cool.🦬🙏🧘‍♀️☀️

09/01/2026

Life is so crazy… We want it how we want it, but we get it how it is.

The angry Gate Keeper.
08/29/2026

The angry Gate Keeper.

I visited this Church on a day when I wish my mind was more clear and open. I understand that many people have fond memo...
08/25/2026

I visited this Church on a day when I wish my mind was more clear and open. I understand that many people have fond memories here that are close to their hearts.

To me it felt sinister. Unwelcoming. Like one house before, a loud banging came from inside. Neither days weather accounted for that in any way. Dead air. As I walked around the church I noticed a back door I thought I could open. With almost no force one of my nails broke scraping on the door. My nails are long and have an acrylic overlay. I’m not saying that is necessary relevant. I just know that I have not broken a nail in at least seven years. My fifteen year old son would not even leave the car. But that too could have been its own thing. I’m sure several of you have or have had one of those.😅

Even the way it felt for me is subject to the distortion of personal experience. I was a misfit in a small, religious farming village in which I came to have a profound sense of connection with the God of my understanding. I was also grossly persecuted by some for being different. Throughout my life I have had experiences in churches that were quite profound. Seemingly as a result. Some I felt looked upon like “The Scarlet Letter”, knowing not a soul. Others, I have wept when I had to leave. They felt like the safest most loving places I have known.

This place felt like old Calvinist doctrine. As I gazed through the window at a higher window I thought about how tragic certain doctrine is for the human spirit. People spending their lives feeling on the outside trying to get in. Only for the possibility that they may be good enough to get out.🙏

You will wait alone for the perfect storm trying to control the weather. Perhaps a storm just isn’t for you. You might p...
08/17/2026

You will wait alone for the perfect storm trying to control the weather. Perhaps a storm just isn’t for you. You might prefer the desert.

I’d wanted some photos with graffiti on trains for a while. Being Albertan and having moved to Saskatchewan, I definitel...
08/12/2026

I’d wanted some photos with graffiti on trains for a while. Being Albertan and having moved to Saskatchewan, I definitely wasn’t about to pass this up!

These photos came up on my memories this morning and I realized that there were some that I hadn’t shared! The flowers w...
08/07/2026

These photos came up on my memories this morning and I realized that there were some that I hadn’t shared!

The flowers were growing beside the old, empty police station here in town. A lady with a copy of one of these images was really surprised by that. I love that about life. Beauty can come out of anything, and it’s often not what you would expect! Happy Friday!🐝🐝🐝

I took these two pictures at two very different times in my life. I’ve started to notice that I’m glad that I capture ar...
08/05/2026

I took these two pictures at two very different times in my life. I’ve started to notice that I’m glad that I capture art as I see it, when I see it. For more than just one reason.

All things are static. Nothing stays the same. And all things are affected or destroyed by time. I’ve visited the same places years apart and found them weathered or the objects of my interest completely gone. More often than not I get to be grateful that I didn’t let the moment pass me by.

07/31/2026

I’m always grateful when I get to sit alone with the full moon.🌕 Sometimes it’s seemingly profound. This time with my hands and feet in the sand, I would not say that. What I would say is that it was immediately and utterly grounding.

Some would assume that I understand more than I do about Astrology. I have been told that my North Node is in Leo and that I have come in this lifetime to be seen. To be bold. Some might say, mission accomplished.😅 Others might say, get to it then! The opposite to that is that my South Node is in Aquarius. Like this important full moon. I believe that the South Node represents things I have already mastered..? Feel free to enlighten me and comment below.

I returned to my family and probably my best friend in the world to be sitting on this beach. My father told me years ago hoping to escape almost certain death that I had come here, the place where I was born to be healed. And I was. “Progress not perfection.”
May I have sat with the full moon of the past to fully embrace the present. And so it is.🙏🌕🧘

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