today we shine

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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summer cedes

 

“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.

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AS ANOTHER DAY DAWNS

 

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

 

~ Alice Liddell ~

 

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

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TODAY WE SHINE

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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INSECTIVOROUS SUICIDE

 

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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

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SPANISH JUNE

 

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

 

~ Traditional ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.

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SHIP OF FOOLS

 

“The human race was dyin’ out,

no one left to scream and shout.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Les Halles in Paris in June 2018.

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A TREE OF STONE

 

“To greet each day ossified;

Like fossil remains forgotten beneath

the feet of something more lively.”

 

~ Taylor Patton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2018.

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LE SÉDUCTRICE

 

“It is not enough to conquer;

one must learn to seduce.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) taken in August 2018.

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FAT HENS

 

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2018.

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THE SPIDER’S BAD DAY

 

“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim,

trapped in the amber of this moment.

There is no why.”

 

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Macro-photograph of a tiny spider trapped in amber millions of years ago taken in October 2016. Detail from a piece of amber in the author’s personal collection.

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