FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

 

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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COBWEB STRANGE

 

“And alien tears will fill for him

pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret,

an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.”

 

~ Diego Marchi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

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SINGING BOWL

 

“The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2019.

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TREE FEATHERED SLOPES

 

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets.

To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.”

 

~ Aldo Leopold ~

 

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

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STORMY WEATHER

 

“I love your lips when they’re wet with wine
and red with wicked desire.”

 

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

 

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

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HEART SAILS AWAY

 

“The heart of man is very much like the sea,

it has its storms, it has its tides

and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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LITTLE BOX OF HAPPY

 

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris taken in Paris in May 2012.

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LA RÉFLEXION À L’AUBE

 

“The mirror is a worthless invention.

The only way to truly see yourself

is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting by Anne Brun Mougin taken in Paris in June 2018.

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THERE WILL BE NO WORDS

 

“Writing about a writer’s block

is better than not writing at all.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

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