Monochrome Universe

Reflections of the Past

John Hancock Tower
Boston Ma

47/365 - Nature's Art

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
Vincent van Gogh

“Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?”
Ansel Adams

Contradictions

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect. ~Adabella Radici

Book Love

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”
~John Greenleaf Whittier

The Old Homestead

Sunderland MA

Silo

Western Massachusetts Farm Land

Color my World

Florida on the Canal

Gazing at Past Horizons.

Rockport Motif #1

"The little fish shack which refused to go away"

The Pulse of Boston

The Prudential Center...this is where the action is tonight.

Friends are like Flowers
They add color to your life.

Art

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
Wynetka Ann Reynolds

Warren City Hall

Warren Ohio
(this photo was created by using a fractalius filtering process in Photo Shop)
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Portland Head Light House

During the storm
or in the darkness...
follow me...
to a safe harbor.

Every Mile a Memory

Every mile, a memory; every song, another scene,
From some old movie going back in time you and me.
Every day, a page turned down; every night, a lonesome sound,
Like a freight train rollin' through my dreams:
Every mile, a memory.
~Dierks Bentley

The Sound of Silence

Warren Community Amphitheater
Warren Ohio

After Life

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
~Amelia Burr

This Life is Yours

Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy.
~Susan Polis Schutz -

Monochrome Monday

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."
~Robert Capa

Shadows

.“Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.”
~Dale E Turner

Asian Apple

Tokyo (Japan) – Apple recently announced it will sell the iPhone in four Asian countries later in 2008.

Shin Hikari

(true light - japanese)

hana to kana

Koto Dama No Sachi
(Happiness in the Spirit of Language)

A New England Winter

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.

Beacon in the Storm

When in the middle of anywhere, lost, look for the beacon that all your friends will mantain alight for you to know where to go.

Winter in New England

Newburyport, MA
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New England Farm House

"Our families are the safety net that catches us when we fall. They are our sanctuary in a storm. They are the beacon showing us the way home when we're lost."
-- Linda Offenheiser

Starbucks in the Snowy City

Newburyport MA

Deja Brew

....The feeling that you've had this coffee before.

Storm

She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."
~~Bob Dylan

A Child's Wonder

If a child is to keep alive her inborn sense of wonder, she needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with her the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
~Rachel Carson

Life is a Journey

The universe will unfold in its own sweet way. ~dd

Fenced Out

“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien

Morning Light

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~Marcus Aurelius