PASTURES ONCE GREEN AND GROWING

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at The King Barrows on the Salisbury Plain, England in June 2007.

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LESSONS IN THE HALF LIGHT

 

“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 2004.

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STOLEN WORDS

 

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.

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CONTINUES TO CONFUSE

 

“Confusion will be my epitaph

as I crawl a cracked and broken path,

if we make it we can all sit back and laugh,

but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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ELECTRIC ECLECTIC

 

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced solarized image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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A SMILE

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

~ Walter Scott ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2015.

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DOORS

 

“Behind some doors lie our wildest dreams, behind others our worst

nightmares and behind them all always the energy and the adventure

that makes us whole. The challenge is in finding the balance and

the reward is a life enriched with the beauty

and the magic of the world around us…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken with an analog Minolta camera in October 1992 on the island of Santorini. The door opened to a drop of a few hundred meters, straight down to the rocks and the sea below. Good that it was chained shut, but it was one door that I wouldn’t have been tempted to open anyway. The view was breathtaking enough.

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DUST BY THE SHOVEL

 

“Sometimes she was fine when the moon would shine,

    unfortunately it was usually cloudy…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Gerhard Marcks’ sculpture Spielende Hengste  (Frolicking Stallions) (1962) taken in 1980..

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THE OIL OF YOU

 

“And ever has it been known that love knows not

its own depth until the hour of separation.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Vénus Sortant Du Bain by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain taken in Paris in June 2019.

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BRITTLE OLD BONES

 

“While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don’t bend.”

 

~ Jimmy Buffett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

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THIN AROUND CAUSE

 

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

 

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Seine taken in Paris in May 2011.

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THE PERFORMANCE

 

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

 

~ Noel Coward ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.

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THIS EXCREMENT UNCTION

 

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

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HOW STRANGE IT SEEMS

 

 

“Sometimes the light’s all shinin’ on me; other times I can barely see,

lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it’s been…”

 

~ Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir ~

 

This is a data created illustration of lightning in the clouds of Jupiter’s atmosphere. The information used to create it was taken from data provided by NASA’s Juno Space Probe. Illustration courtesy and © of NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS and Gerald Eichstädt.

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JUST BEGINNING

 

“The end of laughter and soft lies,

the end of nights we tried to die,

this is the end.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Les grottes de Cougnac in France in June 2006.

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THE STOLEN YEAR

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.

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UNREALITY

 

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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CURTAINED WINDOW

 

“The curtains were made for moving

cause you know sometimes you’re not always there.”

 

~ John Frusciante ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.

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JUPITER

 

“…within the clouds appear numerous illusions,

a woman’s face with flowing hair and a windblown robe,

a bird’s head, fantastic creatures and so much mystery…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

This photo of clouds within a mysterious jet stream region on Jupiter was taken in February 2019 by NASA’s Juno Space Probe. Photo courtesy and © of NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS and Kevin M. Gill. (I seldom use other people’s photos, but I couldn’t resist ‘borrowing’ this one.)

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GOLDEN FLEECE

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

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