Ed Lehming Photography
From Where I Stand...
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for...
A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get...
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. “ – John Muir Simple beauty...
“The blues of summer, flowers and bright skies. Days of warmth and laughter, and lakefront evening sighs.” – Ed Lehming This seems to be season of the hoverfly. They are everywhere...
We have to know our place in the ecosystem of which we are a part, and this means living ‘consciously’: being aware of nature and how it affects us and how...
“If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Don’t let anything disturb your peace. Stay calm and carry on.” ― Germany...
“When you overlook the small blessings in your life, chances are that no amount of blessings would ever make you happy.” ― Edmond Mbiaka I thought today I’d go out and capture...
“Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.” ― Criss Jami What struck me about this image of a...
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ― Anaïs Nin An unknown butterfly on an unknown flower. It really bothers me...
“Happiness is not a thing – it is a feeling; a way of joyful living and being. It comes from inner fulfilment and appreciating the world you live in.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru...
“Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life’s journey and play on.” ― Suzy Kassem Today marks just about...
“What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each other.” ― Santosh Kalwar Every now and then, an unexpected image just ‘happens’. Yesterday, as I went for...
“Red Clover Detail” Here is my entry for Del Monte Y Mar’s Tuesdays of Texture Challenge Week 29 of 2017 It’s been many weeks since I posted a texture image but thought that this...
“Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty.” ― Andrea Goeglein This image is quite similar to yesterday’s Bee and Thistle image,...
“Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.” ― Amit Ray I stood among this patch of...
“There are patterns which emerge in one’s life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme” ― Jacqueline Carey As humans, we are programmed to see patterns, and nature provides...
“Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.” ― Rodney A. Winters As a continuation to yesterday’s post “Beginnings“, here’s a mature coneflower blossom. I struggled for...
“Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough As I surveyed my gardens this...
“And I wonder if the caterpillar at the threshold of death ever knew that she would get metamorphosed into a butterfly that she could fly.” ― Chirag Tulsiani Our camp area was...
“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas” – “Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses” ― Ovid This was a mystery plant to me, for a long time. On initial inspection, it looks...
“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” ― John Green There...
“Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.” ― Criss Jami With all the recent celebrations of Canada’s 150th year of Confederation and the 4th...
“It’s just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it...
“I must have flowers, always, and always.” ― Claude Monet I’ve seen these pretty clumps of pink flowers along the roadside before. Many times. I’ve just driven by, last year I saw...
“Don’t hide yourself from the world and don’t let the world hide himself from you!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan Photographing anything in or from the wild almost always offers a surprise. In...
“I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with it’s diverse life – everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually...
“He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.” ― Wendell Berry A final look at this fleabane plant and accompanying wildlife. The Crescent butterfly, now satisfied, flies...
“The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to...
“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn’t it?” ― Stephen King Much of the conservation land surrounding my home, including parks and hiking trails, was,...
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. […] There are always...
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