High plains
First in wheat
Stands complete
Captured this by shooting from my car.
“The Great Plains were immense enough to inspire the grandest, most foolish of dreams – but they were also vast enough that no one could ever explore every corner.” – Melanie Benjamin
Part abide
Dangled still
Lost but once
Geometrically marking the indefinite continued progress of existence.
“Punctuality is the thief of time.” – Oscar Wilde
Late afternoon
Scattered showers
Side trip
Driving through an area without any irrigation reinforces the high-desert reality.
“The magic fades too fast, the scent of summer never lasts, the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains…nothing lasts.” – Sanober Khan
Tower above the floor
Monument Canyon
Wedding Canyon
This differentially eroded quartzose sandstone deposit is a remnant approximately 200 million years old.
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
Chain ring
Perspective
Linear planes
Ideas continue to percolate about fragmented planes compressed into a visual frame.
“The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.” – Piet Mondrian
Intricately combined
Interconnecting elements
Difficult to explain
A well done diptych offers visual reward.
“The whole is something else than the sum of its parts.” – Kurt Koffka
Regulating access
Door use
Humorousness
Hippies may still be found in bohemian enclaves around the world.
“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Harry leaves
Delicate shades
Subtle greens
Resolved with great elegance.
“Consider any number of things possessing any common property. That property may be possessed by different things in different modes: let each separate mode in which the property is possessed be called an element. The aggregate of all such elements is called the manifold of that property.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Way of appearing
Accidental properties
Accompany essence
Operating beneath perception.
“Meaning will only interest me insofar as it arises out of all the ‘details’ which embody its present mode of being.” – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Lived experience
Worldly presence
Knowledge sediment
Geometry relates across space and time.
“To create a work of art is to create the world.” – Wassily Kandinsky