Matter

Damp edges
Imagination tendrils
Sanctum sanctorum

A designated rest stop on the nature trail shines in the early morning.

“Sitting quietly on a bench the beauty of the swamp comes to me.” – Catherine DeBenedetto

Wind and rain
Decking material
Composite platform

Randomness sometimes seems organized.

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.” – James Gleick

Spirit trace
World of matter
Lingers on

Many opportunities lay dormant, until they suddenly engage imagination.

“His life is like a dream: he knows nothing lasting; everything seemingly happens to him by chance.” – Walter Benjamin

Predation instinct
Creature appearance
Striking enticement

Lost in the wild, the red-spotted blue-rubber salamander fits into its ecological environment.

“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.” – W. Eugene Smith

Ineffable step
Quotidian concerns
Territory rehearsal

Resurrected my oldest digital camera, charged up the battery, and took it for a spin.

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

Accent a space
Bargain discount
Pennant seduction

Decorating an inconsequential parking lot with small colorful cloth triangles is sure to attract positive attention.

“As sellers, if we are going to be successful landing the big ones, we have to expand our thinking about what’s possible.” – Jill Konrath

Timing standpoint
Fortuitous combination
Chance encounter

Sometimes it is electromagnetic wavelength differentiation that is most interesting.

“It’s all a series of serendipities with no beginnings and no ends. Such infinitesimal possibilities.” – Ana Claudia Antunes

Iridescent
Pearlescent
Magnitude

A walk through the miniature swamp occasionally crosses over jewel-like wonderment.

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats

Experience intensity
Proviso actualization
Contingency necessity

Reflections can be considered as virtual manifestations of actuality.

“Whereas conditions of possibility have a limitative relation to the real (correlationism), or are at best meaningless in the face of it (“anything is possible”), the virtual conditions of the actual are no less real than the actual since they are first of all its unconditioned or unformed potential of becoming other.” – Sjoerd van Tuinen

Compact ovoid mass
Formed within layers
Sedimentary strata

Concretions have long been regarded as geological curiosities.

“They typically form by post-depositional mineralization around some nucleus (a rock fragment or fossil fragment).” – James St. John