• clouds,  landscape,  sunrises

    Lovely Clouds

    October 6, 2023

    Good afternoon from cool cold Colorado. Nature is giving us taste of late fall, with winter peeking around the corner. It has been a rather cool day but sunny. My weather app pinged me early this morning letting me know there is a frost warning for tonight. So, I put in a clean furnace filter. Put an extra blanket out near the bed. Thinking the soups I’ll make this year. And, that also means scraping frost off the windshield.

    This morning I made my way to Arapaho Bend Natural Area. The clouds were amazing. I enjoy standing there and watch them change shape and move across the canvas sky. Hope you have had a wonderful Friday!

    Been playing with some WordPress themes and a plugin called SimplyGallery. I have the itch to change the looks of this blog. I want a simple and full screen theme. So, if you find a quirk let me know and don’t be too surprised if things begin to look different or all together different.

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  • clouds,  natural areas,  sunrises

    Red Horizon

    October 5, 2023

    Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

    Dag Hammarskjold

    A cold, biting breeze blew out of the west this morning at Pineridge Natural Area. I felt the chill deep within my body as the red and pink sky hugged the eastern horizon. Yet, I had no desire to be anywhere else. Hope you have had a good day.

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  • clouds,  landscape,  natural areas,  Pineridge Natural Area,  quotes,  sunrises

    A Better Start

    October 3, 2023

    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

    George Bernard Shaw

    Well today is starting out much better, no flat tire to change. Arrived early at Pineridge Natural Area. Looks like that same heron fishing along the water’s edge and in the same spot. The light wind stirred the water’s surface with tiny ripples. A flock of magpies were making quite the fuss in a group of trees. Took 7 photos before heading to Mugs where Jess made me an Old Town Mocha. There was no interest in watching the sunrise for me. Met up with my friend Duane today. He and Jan are in town for a few days before heading south of Tucson for the winter. Hope you had a great day and be sure to do something!

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  • clouds,  horizons,  landscape,  Mary Oliver,  natural areas,  Pineridge Natural Area,  quotes

    …honor the world

    September 18, 2023

    Photography by nature is spiritual considering, it comes from the darkness to show the light.

    Kevin Russo

    I was told the other day by someone that they no longer look my sunrise images. However, I’ve come to know that the beginning of a new day offers a unique sunrise, there is no other like it, and if I’m present to it then it’s another opportunity to live one more day. So for me a sunrise is a sacred moment, where we move from darkness to light. In a Mary Oliver poem called The Swan she writes, Of course the path to heaven doesn’t lie in flat miles. It’s in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it. My presence and the photographs I capture is my act of receiving this morning’s predawn sky and is my gesture to honor the world. I will probably keep doing that to my last breath.

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  • clouds,  horizons,  landscape,  natural areas,  Pineridge Natural Area,  quotes,  sunrises

    I was not disappointed

    September 14, 2023

    When I started my adventure in photography, I was suddenly introduced to the world around me. I can’t believe I have been so blind for too many years.

    Laura Tate Sutton

    I so relate to her quote. Anyway, the weather forecast is for rain beginning mid morning and continuing through the day. So with that forecast in mind I rose early and headed to Pineridge Natural Area. I sat on that same rock, the hard one, hoping nature would offer bright colors among clouds. I was not disappointed. I think of that old adage, Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning. Hope you have a wonderful day.

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  • clouds,  fountain pens,  grass,  horizons,  journal,  landscape,  natural areas,  Pineridge Natural Area,  Plants,  quotes,  writing/reading

    Who I’m Becoming

    September 7, 2023

    … the truth is that we simply don’t know — we don’t know where life ultimately leads, we don’t know what we want or what to want, and we don’t really know ourselves. 

    Maria Popova

    I’ve mentioned before my belief of how little I think I think I know. Yet there are times when some sense of knowing does rise within me. This knowing is not about having an answer or solution to a problem. It’s a knowing that somehow changes my perspective on life, this world, people, and myself. I find this knowing to be one of the adventures in life, a place of growth. I am slowly learning small bits of who I’m not and who I’m becoming.

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