Wavering line
Flyway presence
Attachment capacity
A flock of geese congregate at Ocean Lake and occasionally take a spin out over the Atlantic.
“They have passed over us like an eraser over a blackboard, wiping away whatever was there before they came.” – Wallace Stegner
Consciously justified
Interpretations denied
Higher places
A nondescript environmental detail that was previously neglected becomes a focus of attention.
“Ontology seems the more numinous the less it can be laid down in definite contents that would give the meddlesome intellect something to latch on to.” – Theodor W.Adorno
Resoluteness reveal
Sufficiently clarified
Distinctive attunement
Some kinds of birds can be identified solely on their silhouette when in flight.
“But being “is” only in the understanding of that being to whose being something like an understanding of being belongs.” – Martin Heidegger
Tight relationships
Subsystems turn
Coherent organization
Proportionality between cause and effect is evident in a swamp.
“There is no objective way to determine whose view is right and whose is wrong, since the agents effectively live in different environments—although they may find that some of the regularities they infer appear to be similar.” – Francis Heylighen
Four gonads
Horseshoe-shaped
Otherwise translucent
At the tideline, a beached moon jellyfish waits for the drying sun.
“Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don’t stop.” – Jack Johnson
Organic matter
Random combinations
Tremendous events
The colors and textures of autumn produce subtle beauty.
“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.” – Henry David Thoreau
Perennial grass
Texture structure
Move in the breeze
From both far and near, tall grass is an interesting feature of the shore landscape.
“The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again.” – Kristin Cashore
Devour remains
Replenish source
Eventual nothingness
Just above the tide line, an expired bird slowly sinks into the sand.
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling
Evanescence aware
Without interference
Natural raw material
Natural energy is a source of aesthetic nourishment, on a transitory walk through a waterlogged forest.
“For we wish not that nature coincide accidentally with the laws of our spirit, but that nature itself necessarily and originally not only express, but itself realize the laws of our spirit, and that it be nature and be called nature only to the extent that it does this.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Out and about
Elongated body
Short limbs
An unusual morning sighting on top of the beach dune, an elusive fox vixen appears fearless.
“The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.” – Matshona Dhliwayo