Mad Dogs and Englishmen…
Or should it be "Mad sheep and Swiss photographers?" When I took this picture it was -10 degrees and there was no one else around, only me and the sheep... and as far as I'm aware, the sheep didn't have a choice 😉 "If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he...
Winter Ghosts
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day." Elizabeth Bowen When I took this photo a few weeks ago this is what the landscape in Switzerland looked like - However bandwidth issues prevented me from posting for a while... and now spring...
Breakfast: Coffee on the go
That's a wrap for my breakfast and coffee series! "A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked." Anais Nin, 1903-1977
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Ain’t No Sunshine
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." John Ruskin
Clear Skies
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." Duke Ellington As promised here is a clearer image of Ben Lomond as seen from Rowardennan. This is the last image from the Trossachs series... for a while anyway 😉 When I took this one last year, the wind was buffeting my...
The Lady Of The Lake
"Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done; While our slumbrous spells assail ye, Dream not, with the rising sun, Bugles here shall sound reveille. Sleep! the deer is in his den; Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying; Sleep! nor dream in yonder glen How thy gallant steed lay...
The Lodge On The Loch
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." Zeno
Crescent Shingle Beach
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
Dark Clouds Over Diagonal Ridge
"Ah, Hope! What would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow." Susanna Moodie
Declare/Express/Show Love.
"Who, being loved, is poor?" Oscar Wilde
The Mountain
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
Dream-Land
"By the lakes that thus outspread Their lone waters, lone and dead, - Their sad waters, sad and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily, - By the mountains - near the river Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever" Edgar Allan Poe, Dream-Land
By The Old Burned Tree
"Where Claribel low-lieth The breezes pause and die, Letting the rose-leaves fall; But the solemn oak-tree sigheth, Thick-leaved, ambrosial, With an ancient melody Of an inward agony, Where Claribel low-leith" Lord Alfred Tennyson