flaring November sunshine ... purple beauty berries in the long border ....
The life of leaves
leaves in the dinghy - such abandoned glory ....
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individual portraits of galley slaves, oarsmen for the Phoenicians ... where did they come from?
Read MoreWrite it on your heart ...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day...
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
a fine mingling of letting go ... and
At the end of the day ... I move a seashell from one jar to another - and also write some gratitudes ... and something I sincerely wish to let go ... I sleep soundly ....!
Consider this: "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." -Havelock Ellis
In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
O magnolia radiance breaking in spume,
magnetic voyager whose death flowers
and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness:
shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean.
Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence
while the sea destroys its continual forms,
collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness,
because in the weft of those unseen garments
of headlong water, and perpetual sand,
we bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
Pablo Neruda
I miss the ocean here inland ....
Glorious August
Without humidity - how different Maryland is with "Canadian air" ! Sunflowers, butterflies, light background sound of crickets. Finished applying Cabot Semi Solid stain/seal "Milkweed" tint, to my studio ... plus cleaned up 40 year old trim from a friend's cottage. It will live again on the gable ....
Click on the photo below ... to view Gallery for today Sunday August 25.
Night Sailing
August 16 2013 ....
Sweet August weather with cooler Canadian air .... windows open wide, crickets muted inthe background.
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