one thin wire

 

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

 

~ Simon Van Booy ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.

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incandescence

 

“She took to his tinder with all the passion

of an unrepentant arsonist…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of Gomera in November 1991.

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when the owls awaken

 

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

 

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.

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SWANSONG

 

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM

 

“Lost time is never found again.”

 

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.

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HIGH FLYIN’ BIRD

 

“Who loves not wine, women and song,

remains a fool his whole life long.”

 

~ Martin Luther ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a seagull flying over the Seine at sunset near Notre Dame, taken in Paris in July 2013.

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EPITAPH

 

“Confusion will be my epitaph, 

As I crawl a cracked and broken path…”

 

~ King Crimson ~

(Lake, Giles, Fripp, Sinfield, Mcdonald)

 

 

Original photo taken in Fouras, France in June 1981.

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SPIRIT

 

“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”

 

~ Woodrow Wilson ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2017.

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PROPHECIES

 

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced crop from an original photo taken by I. Fontaine in February 2017. Used with permission.

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YOU AND ME AND RICE CAKES

 

“The child I was
is just one breath away from me.”

 

~ Sheniz Janmohamed ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Le Loiret à Olivet, France in January 2017.

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NEW SKINS FOR OLD

 

“de nouvelles peaux pour les vieux…”

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2017 by I. Fontaine, used with permission.

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NIGHT SLIPS IN

 

“Darkness will always be…its own master…”

 

~C.K. Mullinax ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Old Sarum, England in July 1982.

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RHEIN

 

“The air grows cool and darkles,

The Rhine flows calmly on;

The mountain summit sparkles

In the light of the setting sun.”

 

~ Heinrich Heine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Rhine River near Wiesbaden, Germany in November 1981.

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THE VIEW FROM HERE

 

“It is better to be hated for what you are

than to be loved for what you are not.”

 

~ André Gide ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on Donnersberg in Germany in August 1982.

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WHEN THE OWLS AWAKEN

 

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

 

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.

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THE WRITING IN THE CLOUDS

 

“Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky.”

 

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.

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SWANSONG

 

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all
too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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