In Flight
"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings." Victor Hugo
Ebb and Flow
I'm continuing the water theme of this week with this picture of a dam in Luzern, Switzerland. "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." Leonardo da Vinci
Reflected in Nature
"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself." Truffaut
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The Forest #4
"Out of the mid-wood's twilight Into the meadow's dawn, Ivory limbed and brown-eyed, Flashes my Faun!" In The Forest by Oscar Wilde Gallery
The Forest #3
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." Zeno
The Forest #2
"There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!" Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Forest #1
I wish my American friends a lovely Holiday Weekend! "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop...
Texture #8: Decay
"Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what Age takes away, Than what it leaves behind." William Wordsworth
Texture #7: Wood and Steel
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." Andy Warhol
Texture #6: The Void
"Oh, what a void there is in things." Aulus Persius Flaccus"
Texture #5: Fragile
"Beauty is a fragile gift." Ovid
Texture #4: Rust
"If you rest, you rust." Helen Hayes
Texture #3: Faded Masterpiece
This image was taken on a bridge in Mill Lane in London. It was originally painted by the local school children in the year 2000. Some of the paintwork is showing signs of decay and added texture, but the hard work of the children remains. This particular section of...