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From Where I Stand...
This is another impromptu iPhone abstraction. A quick hike today put me in a forest just past it’s prime, yet spectacular in late afternoon light. I would have ventured longer, but...
“A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there’s anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what’s next. This...
“Each time I see a beautiful sunset or sunrise, I have to pinch myself because I can’t believe that I’m awake and not dreaming.” ― Anthony T. Hincks Every now and then,...
“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If you’re a pretender com sit by my fire...
“Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan This image is another of High Falls, near Bancroft, Ontario. I really could...
I’m still taking a break, and this is part of it. Had to share this beautiful view from the edge of the lake on this frosty Sunday morning near Bancroft, Ontario....
Taking a few days off to regenerate and create a few more images
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. “ – Amelia Barr Though fairly similar to my “Autumn Creeps In” image, this one is different enough to stand on its...
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. “ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The title for this image came to me immediately. It...
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell...
“Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter...
“The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.” ― Angelica Hopes Here we are nearing the...
“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” ...
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” ― Lauren DeStefano...
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.” ― Edward Abbey In this image,...
“The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next – trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken...
“Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.” ― Cate Tiernan I really struggled with the title on...
“Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.” ― Emily Dickinson Every now and then the gently winding path leads along or within patches of dark pine...
“The tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside...
“All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming – a joy so thrilling that if it was...
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see...
“Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.” ― Paulo Coelho This past weekend, I took a little side drive to High Falls, which is...
“I’ve always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect.” ― Benjamin X. Wretlind Along...
“A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.” – Anthony T. Hincks Nature creates unexpected patterns, those things that are...
“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Bright rays of sun reflects off the tree lined hillside within the Durham...
“There are no dead ends in life’s journey; there are no crossroads, no forks in the road. People who chose not to see reality, see the world as a tangled maze...
“The Green Veil shimmers richly around me, in tones of deepest emerald and muted olive; a dominating threshold between earth and sky. Yet, through this veil, gold light pierces and shimmers,...
“Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and...
“The Big Dipper wheels on its bowl. In years hence it will have stopped looking like a saucepan and will resemble a sugar scoop as the earth continues to wobble and...
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” ― Sarah Williams I spent Saturday evening with my son, on the dock at the camper near Bancroft, Ontario....
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