After a couple days of rain and wind, the sky made a perfect canvas for nature to create art that stirs something inside of me. And, everything is turning bright green. The birds are happy, I’m happy.
The Perfect Canvas
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This morning’s sunrise at Pineridge Nature Area -
Tree Shadows or a Creature
Tree Shadows Each day has something new to offer us. Call it a mystery if you want, we just have to look.
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A welcoming frog…
Metal frog that greets you at Cups Coffee Made a visit to a coffee shop I’d not been to in quite some time. It’s changed owners and now has a different look and feel. I liked it. I found a couple lounge chairs facing the morning sun so I may go back to soak up some sun on a cold morning. I thought the frog was very welcoming, as was the mocha.
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Being an artist
Backlit feathered reed grass on campus “Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.”
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Inner Solitude
At the end of the road “Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”
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I’m impressed…
This time the artist, Nature, used the tools of leaves and freezing rain to create these two images. I’m impressed. I can’t do that! However, I can take a digital copy of it.
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
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Simplicity
Attracting attention “As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity, I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment — this very moment — to stay.” Sam Abell
