The wild poppies are not out yet but there is a house in the neighborhood that always has some blooming a little early.
And today John O’Donohue tells us that:
The beauty of the earth is a constant play of light and dark, visible and invisible.
Category: Macro/Closeup
Day 22 – Grape Hyacinth
I found lots of Grape Hyacinth blooming on my walk yesterday.
And back to John O’Donohue:
Beauty inhabits the cutting edge of creativity – mediating between the known and the unknown, light and darkness, masculine and feminine, visible and invisible, chaos and meaning, sound and silence, self and others.
Day 21 – Red Tulip
The neighborhood Tulips are loving the sunshine. The challenge on a day like to day is keeping my shadow out of the picture.
Today’s quote is from Frederick Turner:
The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away.
Day 19 – More Blossoms
I’ve been trying to actually get some house and yard work done but then I remember I’m supposed to post an image and I’m all out of energy. But I spent quite a bit of time polishing this one and adding textures to make it look better than it did out of camera.
I didn’t have to go far in today’s reading to find a great quote from John O’Donohue:
The beauty of the earth is the first beauty. Millions of years before us the Earth lived in wild elegance.
Day 18 – Maple Seedlings
The little Maple tree in front of my house is just bursting forth with new life. There must be thousands of these little seedlings on the tree right now.
And today from John O’Donohue:
The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze.
Day 17 – Yellow Tulip
Staying in where it’s warm today but here is another tulip from yesterday.
Today’s quote is from Plotinus written in the 3rd century:
This is the spirit that Beauty must ever induce, wonderment and a delicious trouble, longing and love and a trembling that is all delight.
Day 13 – Seashell
Still feeling a little under the weather today I decided to head in to the tiny studio and drag out my seashells to play with. I think this one would look good printed large and hanging on the wall of a modern beach hotel.
And once more John O’Donahue hits the nail on the head:
When we devote some calm time to the heart and come off the treadmill of stress and distraction, we can enter into the beauty within.
Day 10 – Wild Pansy
Two or three years ago I had a color bowl of large and small pansies sitting on my front porch. Every since these little guys, only about and inch and a half in diameter, have been jumping up in my lawn in the spring. This one looks like it might have been nipped by the frost we had the other night but I still think its pretty.
From Frederick Turner:
A beautiful thing, though simple in its immediate presence, always gives us a sense of depth below depth, almost an innocent wild vertigo as one falls through its levels.
Day 8 – Pink Blossoms
I’ve been saving this one for a rainy day. Well, it’s not exactly rainy but kind of grey and ugly and I have been up to my ears in genealogy all day so here are some beautiful pink blossoms from an ornamental tree down the street.
And from the Navajo tradition:
May you walk in beauty.
Pink Flower with Raindrops
I don’t even know what kind of flower this is but I found it blooming in one of my neighbors beds next to the street. The raindrops just added a little extra something.
Today’s quote is from Blaise Pascal:
In difficult times you should always carry something beautiful in your mind.
In case you wondered most of the quotes I’m posting come from a book by John O’Donohue simply titled Beauty. It has been languishing on my to read shelf for some time and I thought this would be as good a time as any to get ‘er done.