Evanescent
Short term
Ever changing
All at once
Marking the edge of navigational travels, a line of blooming cherry trees enliven the walk.
“Every flower blooms at a different pace.” – Suzy Kassem
Amid the Surrounding
Small tree stand
Cool oasis shade
Along the stream
Blending right into the landscape, the vintage meniscus achromat lens gathers the shimmering light most agreeably. An old photographic experiment finds new life.
“If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.” – Saint Francis de Sales
Opheodrys Aestivus
Keeled dorsal scales
Behind the dunes
In gray branches
Spotted on the trail to the beach, an unusual organic object is draped in the adjoining brush thicket.
“The map is not the territory.” – Alfred Korzybski
Mother Goose
Walk down pond
Catch some sun
Turn her loose
A patient and tolerant ‘branta canadensis’ incubates eggs in a nest, but I don’t believe she knows I am an artist. Many concurrent things can happen in nature.
“I’m very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.” – Ian Anderson
Freeze Time
Suited emotion
Construed meanings
Repetitive riff
Clouds on and above the beach, for a brief moment awareness becomes immersed as a projection of the universe.
“What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life; therefore, it is no little thing to try to keep that enthusiasm.” – Vincent van Gogh
Interior Forces
Briskly venturing
Tendency to wander
Wildness necessity
It is always interesting how much can be extracted from new venues as experience matures.
“To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.” – Tenzing Norgay
Slow Things Down
Absorb the moment
Paying attention
Little bit stronger
Idea reinforcement helps to ingrain practical concepts. In operant conditioning, positive means you are adding something useful.
“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
Slightest Idea
More acute
Cheerful ongoing
Commentary
Some flowers open and close as a functional response to the diurnal turning of the earth.
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet
Essential Facts
Brief contact
Deep nature
Ancient exercise
The neighborhood nature trail accepted us without notice as bright sunshine percolated through the trees. Living in the moment, happiness is a mode of movement.
“Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” – Henry David Thoreau
Power Patina
Surface sheen
Resulting impression
Hazardous voltage
A rainbow-like spectrum of color occasionally appears in an unlikely place.
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.” – Veronica Roth