Fiona's weathergrams are beginning to fly

I am making weathergrams again this year and have started hanging them in the tree at the top of our driveway.  I have plenty more to go and will be getting up on the ladder later in the week to make sure thee is a good set there for Saturday 21 September.

Barry has helped out by writing messages for peace as well.

Here they are in the making and the early hanging...

And a Hipstamatic late afternoon shot...

I also have some fabric flags I am hoping to screenprint later today - fingers crossed I get them done!

And I also remembered another random set of flags we were hoping to pull together, so the front yard should be ablaze with flags and colours on Saturday I hope, reminding people of peace and to stop for a minute at midday and be silent...

Peace flags weather-grams again...

I have taken some photos today of the new flags I wrote, and of them hanging in the tree.

I did another 10 today - when I went to hang them it looked as if maybe two had already blown off (we have had some serious wind the past few days) so I am just replacing them and letting them continue to drift and be.

The messages of peace - to take action in different ways - is a nice reminder for me. Perhaps we CAN smile peace or live peace or seek peace or breathe peace. Perhaps peace can be in every action we take...

And a few shots from the other afternoon when the light was different...

I am really looking forward to adding to them over the next two weeks, and then photographing and sharing them again on 21 September.  The tree will be more spring-like by then, buds and leaves will be bursting forth, and maybe peace will be as well...

Weather-gram peace flags

I have gone around the block a few times with my ideas for outdoor peace flags and ended up with a simple, yet honest approach.

I have chosen to do weather-grams, a flag approach with a calligraphic history. Weather-grams were created by Lloyd Reynolds, a calligrapher in Portland, OR in the 1920s. They are usually a small quote or verse written on brown paper and hung in trees to weather.

I searched out lots of peace quotes, but in the end decided I would simply 'verb' peace. I came up with heaps of verbs to be used and repeated, so I have Imagine peace. Be peace. Create peace, and so on...

I have hung the first batch in a tree at the top of our driveway and they are certainly getting blown about in the strong breezes we have had the past few days. Still, they are hanging in there and their message remains peace.

 I took a very short video of them the other afternoon...