High Mesa Happenings

Rice Field Art

Peter S.  writes "It's amazing what the human spirit can create sometimes..." He is describing the event below, truly amazing fields!

 

Every year, farmers in the rural town of Inakadate, Japan, create rice field art by using red rice in with their regular rice in special patterns. A few other fields in rural Japan also followed the trend of this beautiful rice field art.

The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields. From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the  work.

The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed Tsugaru, a Roman variety, to create the colored patterns in the time between planting and harvesting in September.

Source: Inakadate

Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees.

In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.
But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.

 

 

Closer to the image, the careful placement of the thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen. The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces.

 

 

Hoax-Slayer Commentary:
This set of images circulates via email and has also been posted to numerous blogs and online communities. The message that accompanies the images claims that they depict giant living works of art made by the careful planting of different varieties of rice. Although the images may look as if they have been digitally created in an image manipulation program, they are in fact real and are indeed created from rice plants as described in the message.

Spinning Beauties

“THESE are very COOL...Kinda reminds me of camping and hiking...”

writes  Pete P., inviting us to check the panoramic links below.

I myself find this kind of viewing fabulous and enchanting. Give it a click!

Thank you Pete for thinking of HMHC friends!

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Look all the way up and all the way down .

Use your mouse to move around.

(The panoramas will function best with the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.)

 

Sulpher Creek

Double Arch

Night Arches

Payson

 

You’ll find more info and panoramic viewings at Utah3D.

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Martian dust devils cause twisting dark trails on the Martian surface.

(Martian dust devils: Wikipedia)

 

Posted by Nadette

BioGenesis: a HMHC Colleague Experience

Boyd Sibley, Intuitive Healer and Sound Therapist, offers The Healer Method Master Certification program at HMHC. The HMHC Book Store  also carries his wonderful Sedona Sacred Oils (pure therapeutic essential oil blends) collection. Come and visit!

Boyd is the owner of HOPE Universal Recording Studio where he channels and records Soul Songs. Please, visit Sedona Soul Songs for further information.

It is customary for many HMHC Colleagues to receive services from each other. Boyd met with Barbara for a BioGenesis consultation last December.

Thank you Boyd, for sharing your experience:

" As the process of Bio-Genesis continued with Barbara using the healing pyramid, I felt my body getting lighter and expanding at the same time as if my aura had grown several inches in every direction. It felt good, it felt warm as colors of wonderful light filled me. I began to feel and hear within a musical sound as well. It was vibrated like surround sound or a spinning vortex of energy. It started in the lower frequencies and just as my aura began to feel lighter, so the music was felt higher in frequency. I was bathed in light and sound as my whole body and aura vibrated to a higher frequency.
Afterwards, I still felt lighter, refreshed and in a happy mood. I wasn't wiped out or drained of energy but rather contained more.
Thank you Barbara for using the energy of creation just as Genesis is the "book of beginnings" in the scripture, to bring more light and love into my being,
blessings"
~Boyd~

December 24, 2009

 

Photo and Print at ArtWaken Mandala Gallery

Posted by Nadette

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Ukrainian Story Drawn in Sand

I found neat that this artist uses anew art medium to speak of history and a painful time for her folks. As showing in the clip, many people were deeply touched.

“May all beings and creatures be free of suffering and diseases.”

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Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

 

Posted by Nadette

Tree of Life by Linda Grau Powell

Tree of Life

Ancestor buried deeply in time

Over time, loses view outward

Or gains view inward

The tree adds concentric rings

Of loving

Of knowing

Of living

Sapling genesis

Twigs that sprout

Test of nurture

Trial of nature

Trunk becoming

Founding strength

Age evolution

Expansion passage

Energy of the essence

Toward the sun

Reaching leaves

Feel the light

Gain the wisdom

See the perfection

Using genetic memory

Soul remembrance

Of timeless, eternal

Time without ending

Ending time

 

Linda Grau Powell

October 5, 2009

Thank you Linda for sharing. My heart jumps when a poem of yours comes into the HMHC email box. When my heart jumps it makes me smile. That smile becomes a million smiles, as you know.

Post and Comment by Nadette

Art Show

 

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I just got home from an art show and I am so glad that I went. It was a different kind of art show, one in a designer home. The home is a piece of art, filled with beautiful pieces of creations from our local artists.  It was such a comfortable setting, maybe it was the water that you could see outside every window and there were lots of windows. Very relaxed and calming atmosphere.

I am so glad that Vicky Mauldin and Jamie Slack invited the "Open Circle" to attend, It was well worth the trip.

It is on tomorrow as well (Sunday) You just find the balloons on Gavalin and turn onto Homestead Acres follow the balloons one more time and you are there! Enjoy!