Ed Lehming Photography
From Where I Stand...
“Sometimes strands spend a long time seeking each other, fumbling without light, and interweave without knowing that it is exactly what the web wants.” ― Emmi Itäranta I can’t even comprehend the...
“The summer waters caressed the shore, like a lover, gently stroking the beach, in sheets of warm silk” – Ed Lehming I fell in love with this image almost as soon...
“There is peace even in the storm” ― Vincent van Gogh I’m one of those people who loves storms. There is something in the unbridled power of them that fascinates me. I...
“Let me bring you songs from the wood: To make you feel much better than you could know Dust you down from tip to toe Show you how the garden grows...
“Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not...
“I miss your fragrance, sometimes I miss it this much that I can clearly smell you in the air.” ― Qaisar Iqbal Janjua Just in time for the last day of May....
“If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I find myself surveying my gardens, as the cycle of spring takes a...
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in...
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy As the world becomes more complex, on a seemingly daily basis, I find myself drawn to simplicity....
“The truth is that everyday and everyone is different. We just like to think that they aren’t.” ― Anthony T. Hincks As promised, yesterday’s flower, with a light background. Keep in mind,...
“Her blush was the color of a coral reef, but smooth.” ― Aimee Bender I simply love the many muted colours of spring. Understated blues, yellows, purples, and oranges, all make their...
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats I wanted to post one more of my ‘artsy’ interpretations. This time, the predominant...
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” ― Richard Wagner A bit of fun this morning. I decided to ‘play’ with an image I made yesterday, by running it through...
“Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts — it starts with a shift in consciousness. ― Ian Somerhalder This image invokes two thoughts for me: First, I’m loving the fact that...
“And this is how the forest changes, one step, one day, one moment at a time. ” ― Ed Lehming The time of change is at my doorstep. Though flurries still fill the...
“There is always danger for those who are afraid.” ― George Bernard Shaw I could not resist the quote. I am told over and over, “Be careful on the trails, they are...
“Any belief worth embracing should be able to stand up to scrutiny. If not, it’s time to release it; let it go.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD I struggled with a quote of...
Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.” ― Neil Gaiman Contrary to the quote that...
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” ...
“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the...
“I love the scent of winter. I love the scent of winter enough to suffer the cold for it.” ― Tiffany Reisz It’s been a while since I posted, it’s also been...
“You think winter will never end, and then, when you don’t expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.” ― Wendell Berry Warm, merely describes the...
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?” ― Shannon L. Alder I left the title as is,...
“Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh,...
“We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Though the forest image above is far from terrifying, at least for me, it can be...
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals...
“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien I can almost put myself in a Tolkien story when the elements combine...
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne Even at this time of year, days away from the first official day...
“When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than...
“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe...
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