Friday, September 14, 2012

Snow Circles


I have an affinity for circles … like a moth to a flame. Every now and them it comes out. Like when I am thinking about what things mean, or who I am … stuff like that.

I enjoy pop psychology and took one of those quickie tests. In the test, you chose a shape that appealed to you and from that it projected what kind of person tended to choose your shape. I chose a circle.

Done another way, Strength Deployment Inventory, I come out blue. It's like the color version of a circle. It's like an embracing thing … encircling arms … let me help you and take care of you. It could be me. Well, I might be a grumpy version.

Cart or horse? Egg or chicken? Tattoo or snow circle? I don’t know which came first. What I do know is that the first time that I snowshoed a series of circles in the snow, I was hooked.



And I know that when I was thinking about a tattoo design for my leg, I started drawing and the result was a concentric circle design. When I look at either, tattoo or snow circle, I am inexplicably drawn to the shapes.







I guess you could say that I had found myself.
















I do believe that shapes affect people in different ways. I consider myself to a big picture person. I need to see the links to the whole and how things work together. I feel a sense of polarity I feel when I look at other shapes. But, I always come back to the circle ... like a lemming ... like a bad penny ...


But, isn't that, in essense, what a circle does?



(I always maintain a version of a circle in my yard for the winter. I look forward to the first snow when I can construct it.)


















(I managed to get to Kilborn Pond in NH before many people had had a chance to showshoe in. I left this for them to find.)


















(I did this one in the large field beside my property. I loved how it looked in the early morning hours in a full sun. If you circled in to the middle and then back out, it was one mile.)





(I got up at 4:00AM one morning before school to sneak in to the tennis courts and leave this for the students to discover when they looked out of the second story window.)
















(Sometimes, I like to add inverted icicles to make it look like the entry to a castle.)

(I left this one along the Williamsville town trail. Wonder what someone thinks when they find it?)

























(I left this one in George and Joan's field. They snowshoe here and would stumble upon it.)


I have an affinity for circles … like a moth to a flame. Every now and them it comes out. Like when I am thinking about what things mean, or who I am … stuff like that.

I enjoy pop psychology and took one of those quickie tests. In the test, you chose a shape that appealed to you and from that it projected what kind of person tended to choose your shape. I chose a circle.

Done another way, Strength Deployment Inventory, I come out blue. It's like the color version of a circle. It's like an embracing thing … encircling arms … let me help you and take care of you. It could be me. Well, I might be a grumpy version.

Cart or horse? Egg or chicken? Tattoo or snow circle? I don’t know which came first. What I do know is that the first time that I snowshoed a series of circles in the snow, I was hooked.



And I know that when I was thinking about a tattoo design for my leg, I started drawing and the result was a concentric circle design. When I look at either, tattoo or snow circle, I am inexplicably drawn to the shapes.







I guess you could say that I had found myself.
















I do believe that shapes affect people in different ways. I consider myself to a big picture person. I need to see the links to the whole and how things work together. I feel a sense of polarity I feel when I look at other shapes. But, I always come back to the circle ... like a lemming ... like a bad penny ...


But, isn't that, in essense, what a circle does?



(I always maintain a version of a circle in my yard for the winter. I look forward to the first snow when I can construct it.)


















(I managed to get to Kilborn Pond in NH before many people had had a chance to showshoe in. I left this for them to find.)


















(I did this one in the large field beside my property. I loved how it looked in the early morning hours in a full sun. If you circled in to the middle and then back out, it was one mile.)





(I got up at 4:00AM one morning before school to sneak in to the tennis courts and leave this for the students to discover when they looked out of the second story window.)
















(Sometimes, I like to add inverted icicles to make it look like the entry to a castle.)

(I left this one along the Williamsville town trail. Wonder what someone thinks when they find it?)

























(I left this one in George and Joan's field. They snowshoe here and would stumble upon it.)


(Sometimes the pressure of making circles is just too great ... and then ... I rest!)I have an affinity for circles … like a moth to a flame. Every now and them it comes out. Like when I am thinking about what things mean, or who I am … stuff like that.

I enjoy pop psychology and took one of those quickie tests. In the test, you chose a shape that appealed to you and from that it projected what kind of person tended to choose your shape. I chose a circle.

Done another way, Strength Deployment Inventory, I come out blue. It's like the color version of a circle. It's like an embracing thing … encircling arms … let me help you and take care of you. It could be me. Well, I might be a grumpy version.

Cart or horse? Egg or chicken? Tattoo or snow circle? I don’t know which came first. What I do know is that the first time that I snowshoed a series of circles in the snow, I was hooked.



And I know that when I was thinking about a tattoo design for my leg, I started drawing and the result was a concentric circle design. When I look at either, tattoo or snow circle, I am inexplicably drawn to the shapes.







I guess you could say that I had found myself.
















I do believe that shapes affect people in different ways. I consider myself to a big picture person. I need to see the links to the whole and how things work together. I feel a sense of polarity I feel when I look at other shapes. But, I always come back to the circle ... like a lemming ... like a bad penny ...


But, isn't that, in essense, what a circle does?



(I always maintain a version of a circle in my yard for the winter. I look forward to the first snow when I can construct it.)


















(I managed to get to Kilborn Pond in NH before many people had had a chance to showshoe in. I left this for them to find.)


















(I did this one in the large field beside my property. I loved how it looked in the early morning hours in a full sun. If you circled in to the middle and then back out, it was one mile.)





(I got up at 4:00AM one morning before school to sneak in to the tennis courts and leave this for the students to discover when they looked out of the second story window.)
















(Sometimes, I like to add inverted icicles to make it look like the entry to a castle.)

(I left this one along the Williamsville town trail. Wonder what someone thinks when they find it?)

























(I left this one in George and Joan's field. They snowshoe here and would stumble upon it.)



(Sometimes the pressure of making circles is just too great ... and then ... I rest!)(Sometimes the pressure of making circles is just too great ... and then ... I rest!)

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