a walk in nature is
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medicine for the soul
fresh air and sunshine
rejuvenate the spirit
nature patiently awaits
offering her gift of blue
A photo from an afternoon walk at Arapaho Bend Natural Area.
… her gift of blue
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Awareness of Shadows
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.
Carl Gustav JungJung believed that our shadow describes those aspects of our personality that we choose to reject and repress. After many years of reflecting back on my own experiences in life I am able to see where I hid from my dark side. Jung also says, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” This awareness has helped me in many areas of my life, mainly in relationships.
I’ve also become aware of the value shadows bring to my photography. Some of my favorite images are because of the interplay of shadows and light within them.
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… endlessly changing horizon
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
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Almost Perfect
Along Weld County Road 13 “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
Winnie-the-PoohWe all have certain subjects we gravitate towards. I find my archives to have primarily images of wide open horizons with clouds, trees, fields of grass, open meadows, sunshine and the shadows it spreads around. This was taken last week on an afternoon drive outside the city. This morning I sit on my porch typing this post. Clear skies, sunshine and around 50 degrees. The birds are singing their songs of joy. Almost perfect.
Or maybe they are singing because it’s Ruth’s birthday. Happy Birthday Ruth!
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Smoke Filled Skies
song birds are silent
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dawns eerie colors from
smoke filled skiesCooler weather is in the forecast and I’m okay with that. Fall is one of my favorite seasons. I will be on the road this coming week as my sister and I drive to Texas on Wednesday for mom’s graveside service and drive back on Friday.
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A Prayer
“May I have the courage today
John O’Donohue
To live the life that I would love,
To postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here for
And waste my heart on fear no more.”This image was taken back in May. There is something about this tree that keeps me coming back to visit. Wonder if it’s the solitude this tree lives plus the courage to live the life it’s called to live. I also wonder how many of us have failed to live the life we would love.
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Morning Fog
“In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say ‘Aha,’ that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say ‘Aha’ to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.”
Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-87With the very warm days the green is fading quickly. This image was taken back in May near Reservoir Ridge Natural Area. In reference to the above quote, I’d like to think of this image as my recognition of the divine. An “Aha” moment!
