• frost,  leaves,  quotes

    Believing it’s worth it

    Morning frost on a leaf probably because it’s cold

    “Life’s too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” -Dr. Seuss

  • Art,  Art/Design,  Black and White,  lifestyles,  quotes,  shadows,  Woodcarving

    Casting Shadows

    One of my dad’s wood carving and morning shadows

    “So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don’t know what work they are accomplishing within you?” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • Black and White,  clouds,  grass,  lake,  landscape,  Plants,  prairie,  quotes,  trees

    Beautiful Questions

    Cottonwood trees reflecting in a pond at Rocky Mountain Arsenal from 2011

    “The ability to ask beautiful questions, often in very unbeautiful moments, is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered.”

    David Whyte

    A few years ago I became less interested in answers and more interested in the questions. We already have too many people who have the answers. I’m grateful for the inquisitive minds in our world today, always looking for another question. Those questioning minds belong to the creatives, the prophets, researchers, the explorers, the seekers.

  • grass,  landscape,  Plants,  quotes,  shadows,  snow,  winter scenes

    The Peacemaker

    Shadows on the fresh snow

    The job of the peacemaker is to stop war, to purify the world, to get it saved from poverty and riches, to heal the sick, to comfort the sad, to wake up those who have not yet found God, to create joy and beauty wherever you go, to find God in everything and in everyone. Muriel Lester

  • leaves,  Plants,  quotes

    Gazing at Nature

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    ​”Every human being needs a contemplative practice, perhaps gazing at nature in wonder, with a camera or paint brush, taking time.” Thomas Moore

    Should be on my way today for Phoenix and taking the time to spend Thanksgiving with my parents and sisters. With all the snow I’m not sure what we will experience at the airport. Anyway, here are few images of leaves, another one of my favorite subjects to gaze at.