Here’s a desktop wallpaper with clouds of cherry blossom in the fruit orchard to put summer on your desktop. Breathtaking. I’m dizzy with spring and early summer!

A perfect companion for matching icons in blue, green and pink found in these sets of icons: Luminous Blue Folder Icons, the green folder icons from the collection of Luminous Ready Steady Go Folder Icons and Luminous Pink Folder Icons.

This pack includes wallpaper versions for widescreen, fullscreen, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Save this wallpaper to your computer.

Tags: blue, green, landscape, nature, peaceful, pink, spring, summer, tranquil, trees

Free icons to help you be more productive with neatly organized projects.

Vintage Folder Icons

Vintage Folder Icons is a series of free icons inspired by vintage textures, retro textiles and old film. With their grainy texture, these icons bring a touch of nostalgia to your desktop, while helping you stay organised by color coding your projects. They fit nicely together with the popular series, Luminous Folder Icons.

To maximize your productivity, all of the Vintage folder icons have got small, crisp hand-drawn versions for the small sizes that show up in list-view.

Available in Seaside (red, blue and sand).

Luminous Folder Icons

Luminous Folder Icons are designed to kick start your desktop with an uncluttered, productive and beautiful desktop environment. Bring a splash of colour to your digital environment and inhabit your desktop with your favourite colours. This series of free icons is designed to help you visually personalize your desktop and color code your projects to work more efficiently.

To maximize your productivity, all of the Luminous folder icons have got small, crisp hand-drawn versions for the small sizes that show up in list-view.

Available in Blue, Purple, Orange, Pink and Ready Steady Go (red, yellow and green).

Legacy Icon Archive

Looking for the icon archives? Here’s a decade of free icons, designed for what now are vintage operating systems. From pixel art like Hype Hair and Knot Right? (How to tie a tie), to icons in a modern style such as Daffodils and Hieroglyphica (Egyptian hieroglyphs).

You’ll find these retired icons in the Legacy Icon Archive.

Tags: blue, color code, digital environment, ease, folder icons, getting organized, green, Luminous Folder Icons, orange, pink, pixel art, productivity, purple, red, simplicity, yellow

Breaking Ice

I just finished this painting as a thick layer of mist rolled in from the lake. “Breaking Ice”. The colour palette is very much the same as in this reference photo I took of ice floes on the lake. Inspired by nature, the turn of the seasons, the lake, the beauty and miracle of an everyday experience or “ordinary magic” as mosaic artist Concetta brilliantly phrased it.

Tags: art, blue, Breaking Ice, digital, green, inspiration, natural media, nature, painting, prints, spring, turquoise, winter

iPhone photography: Ice on the lake in March

The end of March, spring equinox, and the ice on the lake is melting. Sounds of spring: birdsong. Drops and trickles of running water. The crush of melting ice falling off the roof and crashing down on the ground. Which are the sounds you notice just now in your surroundings?

iPhone photography: Birdhouse in March

Tags: blue, Breaking Ice, carpe diem, green, iPhoneography, nature, senses, sensual, spring, trees, turquoise

iPhone photography: Airplane in the blue hour

I’ve been hibernating after twisting my ankle two weeks ago while escaping huge icicles falling off a rooftop on a narrow medieval street paved with cobblestones. Lets just say that there’s a whole lot of things I’d rather do than walk with crutches in snow and on ice.

It’s interesting to see how much comes with the role of “being injured”, at first I was so surprised when someone offered me a seat on the bus and then I remembered oh yes, I’ve got these crutches. People can see that… Then again, this is a role I’ll soon be able to step out of, and I’m so grateful for that.

This whole thing has been a drain though, so things have been quiet round here. But enough with the drama!

I found a desktop wallpaper with Forsythia, that somehow didn’t make it into the move to WordPress, and re-released it. I hope it brightens your day with thoughts of spring to come!

iPhone photography: the lights are on

Tags: blue, gratitude, iPhoneography, winter