“The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, But not every man’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Simply Shadows
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Linden Street Cafe
Morning Shadows This was taken last week when I met a friend at the Linden Street Cafe in Old Town Fort Collins. We were not sitting at this table but loved the light so grabbed my journal and pen to setup this scene. Would have been a sweet place to journal.
It had been a while since I’d been here. The place is under new ownership and has had some new touches added. I liked it.
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Red Rims
Red Rims “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.”
Pema ChödrönIt’s interesting how the simplest thing can catch my attention.
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A Day at the Gardens
A Day in the Gardens “I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.”
Eckhart Tolle -
Brown Edges
Brown Edges The brown color of this leaf’s edges was the key to drawing my attention to it. My first thought was a dead leaf that had fallen and was mixed in with the greener leaves. But as I looked closer I realized it was only the edges of the leaf that were discolored.
My inquisitive mind wanted to know why this was happening, so a Google search was made and the following was discovered. Most commonly brown leaf tips or brown edges on leaves are caused by stress. This can be due to the plant not getting enough water, too little natural water falling, the roots are constricted and unable to reach out for water or the soil does or can not hold onto the water. Even though the plant is in stress I find beauty in it. I also find it interesting only one leaf is affected.
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Details in Nature
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Tiny Little Bee
Blue flax and a Hover Fly “It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world
Wendell Berry
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Window Curtains
Window Curtains “We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all,
Elizabeth Gilbert
there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.” -
The Stella and Legno
Pilot fountain pens “You write because there’s fire in your bones. You’ve got to do this whether anybody ever reads it or not.” Eugene Peterson
These are two of my sisters fountain pens. The front pen is her new Pilot Legno 89s fountain pen in deep red, and features a rhodium-plated 14K nib. It is an open-grain (as opposed to sealed/varnished) “wood” finish – which is actually a resin-impregnated compressed laminated wood product. Both barrel and cap are lathe-turned from this solid yet light-weight material. One website stated the body was made from “Kabanoki” is Cherry tree called the “Queen of broad leaf tree” in Japan. Kabanoki Wood is used to make furniture, so the grain pattern is relatively bold and tough. Believe what you want.
The white pen is a Pilot Stella 90s in pearl/white. It has a pearly painted lacquered brass body and is heavier than the Legno. It also features the rhodium-plated 14K nib. This pen, appropriately named Stella, is one of her favorite pens. Both pens look and feel similar to the Pilot Prera pens.
