Stretching limbs
Secrets to divulge
Deciduous evergreen
Curious and impressive in appearance, the Outer Banks barrier islands are home to many live oaks. Draping low with twisted limbs and rugged bark, they flourish in the inexorable maritime forest conditions.
“Steadfastly spreading their limbs, they twist and turn to get the most fortuitous sunlight and find their place on this sometimes harsh and unpredictable island.” – Rita Thiel
Pot belly stove
Hardwood floor
Iron by hand
E. B. Brown first opened a Sedalia blacksmith shop in 1918 and moved to this expanded structure in 1930. There are not many craftsman who still fabricate objects out of iron by hot and cold forging on an anvil.
“If practice makes perfect and perfection is impossible, why practice?” – Joe Don Looney
During peak
Afternoon heat
Surface intensified
Sand is composed of tiny rock fragments, including quartz, feldspar, gypsum, basalt, and calcite, with a scattering of shell shards sometimes included. As the summer day progresses, sand receives solar energy via the process of radiation. Temperatures as high as 150°F can be attained, sufficient to inflict third-degree burns.
“People have blistered up and had to go to the hospital because of the burns on their feet.” – Gary Felsh
Desirable age
Previous era
Vintage unique
Stark urban sunshine illuminates vertical structural siding, emphasizing a rather imposing facade. The window security bars add an uninviting element of apprehension. I elected to forgo an evaluation of the collection of proffered castoff objects.
“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distinct ecosystem
Biologically diverse
Hydric soil
A wild and generally inaccessible wetland does an excellent job of biological diversity support, water storage and purification, carbon and nutrient processing, and shoreline stabilization.
“When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum.” – Henry David Thoreau
Authentic parody
Evident pastiche
Surface images
Focusing in on details, incongruous messaging adorns a Mondrian-like harmony found on a cold winter day.
“The idealist and existentialist arguments for the centrality of the autonomous imagination have, sine the sixties, run the gauntlet of critical suspicion.” – Richard Kearney
Gentle lulling
Caressing waves
Standing by the sea
With many different moods and flavors variegating into its own depths, the sea swallows up the existent. Along the coast, freedom and imagination merge with the real.
“It roars like a lion, yet so calm and sincere, like a refined diamond. Much beauty lurks here.” – Isaac H.
Brilliant colors
Air so fresh
Life renewed
Emerging to greet the warming sun, new leaves begin to appear and cover traces of yesterday.
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir
What actually is
Bound to change
Beneath the surface
Symbols of experience, an inscribed message is a shape drawn inside another encounter. Circumscribed on the surface, indelible markings of time have a cultural dimension, with the meaning or interpretation of the image fluid.
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” – Oscar Wilde
Narrative imagination
Hermeneutic circle
World of action
In general, understanding of each individual part is established by reference to the whole, while understanding as a whole is established by reference to individual parts.
“What is decisive is not to get out of the circle but to come into it the right way.” – Martin Heidegger