My online journal where I share my interests in photography, nature, journaling, fountain pens, bicycling, coffee life, spirituality and the mystery of it all.
“Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders;
Wendell Berry
we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary
but the common mode of existence.”
I hope your week is filled with wonder, love, peace, happiness and signs of Spring.!
Took a walk this past Sunday along the Red Fox Meadows nature trail. Mostly cloudy day but so enjoyable and much needed time in nature to clear the thinking. It also provides the exercise my body and spirit need. I find it fascinating when scenes appear that catch my attention and become an image for me. I feel like a child discovering something new. Processed this image with one of the presets in Silver EFEX Pro. Made a tone curve adjustment then posted it.
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else.
Wendell Berry
Only when we discover it for ourselves
does it become common ground and a common bond…”
“Soon it will be fall. The frost will come… All of this is familiar. And yet none of this has every happened before as it is happening now.”
Wendell Berry
“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: “Love. They must do it for love.” Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their farming is small enough, they lie to work in the company of their children and with help or their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide. I have an idea that a lot of farmers have gone to a lot of trouble merely to be self-employed to live at least a part of their lives without a boss.” Wendel Berry.
Wheat harvest is over for the farmers along the Colorado Front Range and the Eastern Plains. With the nice rains we’ve been experiencing those same farmers are now smiling as the milo and corn crops grow.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry