May there be smooth sailing into a bright, happy and peaceful New Year.
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December 30, 2013
December 19, 2013
December 3, 2013
First Snow
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Out of the bosom of the Air
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.
~ Snowflakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
November 26, 2013
Happy Thanksgiving!
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
~ from To Autumn by William Blake
Thank you for your friendship and visits throughout the year.
I wish all of you a joyful, peaceful and safe Thanksgiving Holiday.
I wish all of you a joyful, peaceful and safe Thanksgiving Holiday.
Labels:
holidays,
plants and flowers
November 18, 2013
On the Road to November
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~ George Eliot
~ George Eliot
November 4, 2013
October 29, 2013
The Raven
“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil! –
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted –
On this home by horror haunted – tell me truly, I implore –
Is there – is there balm in Gilead? – tell me – tell me, I implore!”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
~ from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Happy Halloween!
Labels:
• Hesperia,
• Mojave Desert,
birds,
cactus,
deserts,
holidays,
monochrome,
plants and flowers,
textured
October 17, 2013
October 9, 2013
Fall on the Chaparral
. . . the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music,
the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West.
~ from Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
October 2, 2013
Rock
Forest sways,
rocks press heavily,
roots grip,
tree-trunk close to tree-trunk.
Wave upon wave breaks, foaming,
deepest cavern provides shelter.
~ from Faust by Goethe
September 18, 2013
August 19, 2013
August 5, 2013
June 20, 2013
June 10, 2013
Wind Rock Wave
Endlessly, one after the other,
The waves hurl themselves
And shatter into spume at its feet,
And disperse…
Its face and body are scored
With cuts and wounds,
But it stands intact,
Smiling, gazing far out
To sea…
~ The Rock by Ai Qing
June 3, 2013
Buddha’s Garden
May 23, 2013
In Dreams
Dream Poem
Once in the dream of a night
I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
~ From Song of a Dream by Sarojini Naidu
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plants and flowers
May 15, 2013
Pow Wow
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This was an extremely photo-friendly environment, as are most Pow Wows. I went with the idea that I might not be able to use my camera, or feel comfortable in doing so, but that was not the case. I took care not to include pictures of spectators or children, and only posted photos of those who were active participants performing in the Pow Wow.
Labels:
• Mojave Narrows,
people
May 2, 2013
Iglesia Adventista El Santuario
The Sanctuary Adventist Church is commonly known today as the Kill Bill Wedding Chapel from Quentin Tarantino’s movie — Kill Bill. In the film, the chapel represents the El Paso, Texas Two Pines Wedding Chapel where the Deadly Viper Assassination Team (Vivica Fox, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, and David Carradine) attempt to kill The Bride (Uma Thurman). It’s also the church where Father Des Spellacy (played by Robert DeNiro) was banished to in the movie True Confessions.
April 18, 2013
Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruit
of your gifts and destructions, into my hand,
I would choose your far-off repose, your contour of steel,
your vigilant spaces of air and darkness,
and the power of your white tongue,
that shatters and overthrows columns,
breaking them down to your proper purity.
From The Wide Ocean (Canto General) by Pablo Neruda
Labels:
• Encinitas,
monochrome,
oceans,
rain