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Showing posts with label Quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quote. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Bow Lake "A Joy Forever"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Its loveliness increases; it will never
pass into nothingness ...―John Keats
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Still Waters - Lake Edith
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Endless Chain
“People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering. ”
― Augustine of Hippo
Kootenai Ranch
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
In High Country
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Snake River
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
Saturday, December 31, 2016
"My Soul Is In the Sky"
"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 alike. "
John Muir - The Yosemite (1912), page 256.
Friday, December 30, 2016
"Deep In the Forest"
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
"To Find the Air and the Water"
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring -- these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
John Burroughs
John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Palatka Country
The focal point for me is the magnitude of the cloud formation over the small farm house in the first photo. The clouds were traveling fast, crossed the highway, separated and formed a circular pattern that could have swallowed the entire farm and surrounding fields.
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Still Waters Run Deep
These pictures were taken outside of Ocilla Georgia. The trees are standing in shallow but still water. I don't know how deep the lake is but the old saying is "Still waters run deep." A person's calm exterior often conceals great depths of character, just as the deepest streams can have the smoothest surfaces.
"The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out..." Proverbs 20
Monday, October 27, 2014
Beach Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass
When the white beach reflects the light from the morning sun, the wet sand illuminates a mirror. Shadows of the clouds, birds, sand piles, sea weed have a looking glass effect. The visual effect is surreal like a favorite children's book by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass.
'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that—'
'In winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight—
'In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean.'
'In summer, when the days are long, Perhaps you'll understand the song: In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.'
'I sent a message to the fish: I told them "This is what I wish." The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me. The little fishes' answer was "We cannot do it, Sir, because—"'
'I sent to them again to say "It will be better to obey." The fishes answered with a grin, "Why, what a temper you are in!" I told them once, I told them twice: They would not listen to advice. I took a kettle large and new, Fit for the deed I had to do. My heart went hop, my heart went thump; I filled the kettle at the pump. Then some one came to me and said, "The little fishes are in bed." I said to him, I said it plain, "Then you must wake them up again." I said it very loud and clear; I went and shouted in his ear.'
'But he was very stiff and proud; He said "You needn't shout so loud!" And he was very proud and stiff; He said "I'd go and wake them, if—" I took a corkscrew from the shelf: I went to wake them up myself. And when I found the door was locked, I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked. And when I found the door was shut, I tried to turn the handle, but—'
There was a long pause.
'Is that all?' Alice timidly asked.
'That's all,' said Humpty Dumpty. 'Good-bye.'
Excerpts from Chapter 6, "Through the Looking Glass"
by Lewis Carroll
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Morning Glory Rain
"The morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." Whitman, Walt
These morning glory flowers were growing outside my window so I took these pictures after a morning rain.
After a Morning Rain
After a morning rain.
the morning glory bows,
Rain droplets falling,
The dawn is breaking,
Sounds of leaves rustling
As the misty wind blows,
Clouds bathe in light,
The silent sun comes,
As treetops glistens,
A new day has begun.
by PL Fallin
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Hobbits like to eat "Cabbage" and so do Rabbits
Hobbits and Rabbits have several things in common and eating cabbage is one of them. Of course J.R.R. Tolkien made a distinction that Hobbits dwell "...in very well-appointed holes (none of your wet, smelly rabbit holes, mind you)." Hobbits do have the long rabbit looking feet but the similarity ends there. Hobbits are distantly related to humans and resemble humans in their dress, mannerisms, gardening and so forth. There was one rabbit from a different childhood tale, Peter Rabbit who ate like a Hobbit!
"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter ... Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries; But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate! First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes And then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley. But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!.."
Quote from "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Helen Potter (1866 - 1943).
Helen Beatrix Potter was born in 1866, in South Kensington, London. She was an English Victorian artist and author of children's stories, creator of such winsome and nattily attired characters as Benjamin Bunny, Squirrel Nutkin, and of course Peter Rabbit. Her father was a wealthy investor. Potter lived a secure childhood at home, with her younger brother Bertram. She wrote "The Tale of Peter Rabbit".
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