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From Where I Stand...
“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...
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen Truly, a crack in the clouds, and that’s how the light gets in. Despite the snow-covered ground...
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says,...
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…” ― John Geddes Seriously, I could stop my post here with this all too appropriate quote. As I...
“A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.” ― A.D. Posey This ‘solitaire’ is not the same as the one I posted few days ago. Yesterday, after a morning...
“Because you don’t notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.” ― Libba Bray...
“The beauty of any first time is that it leads to a thousand others…” ― Pico Iyer This was the end of November, the first significant snowfall, enough to dust the ground...
“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely.” ― Alexandra Elle This is my final image...
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” ― Leonora Carrington Indeed, only the light...
“In the hills giant oaks Fall upon their knees You can touch parts You have no right to” ― Kay Ryan There is simply no other way to describe this intergrown cluster...
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence...
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ― Vincent van Gogh I generally don’t post these ‘enhanced’ images, but enjoyed creating this one so much, I had to share...
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ― Aristotle After thousands of years, the quote is still so appropriate. The outward appearance...
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression...
“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.” ...
“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” ― Aldo Leopold This part of the world looks like nothingness...
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to us, even if...
“… there’s a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far, far beyond, out across the netherlands of the Known,...
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and...
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” ― George R.R. Martin Welcome to “Boreal Trails”. I thought I’d start the series off...
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