Showing posts with label autumn at night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autumn at night. Show all posts

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Reflection and Night

Just a few photos which alternate between water reflections and night scenes.


minden gull river reflection
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
~ Claude Monet





autumn night wabukayne2
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
~ Steve Martin





young heron2
When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~ Wendell Berry





wabukayne autumn night
Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.
~ Hugo Weaving





puddled path
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
~ Edward Steichen




 
autumn night benny frank
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~ Vincent Van Gogh




 
minden gull river bridge
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
~ Alex Haley





autumn night wabukayne benny
The streets were dark with something more than night.
~ Raymond Chandler





gull river reflection2
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. 
~Indra Devi





autumn raccoon
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
~ Walt Whitman





bville creek
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
~ e. e. cummings





autumn raccoon2
What a nice night for an evening.
~ Steven Wright 

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Autumn Magic

fiery elm leaves
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ~ Robert Browning




vibrant maple leaves
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~ Stanley Horowitz




path at night
All the night's magic seems to whisper and hush ~ Van Morrison




spindle berries
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels. ~ Charles Dickens




rose leaf
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods. And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. ~ William Allingham




Wabukayne4
A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air. ~ Eric Sloane




night path
They are busy all day, giving shade and support and shelter and food to all. Only when night falls can they find rest for themselves, and then, under quiet dark skies, the spirits that live in them are revealed.
~ Durga Bai




sheltered oak leaf
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~ e.e. cummings




maple
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
~ Emily Bronte




autumn path
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees. ~ C.S. Lewis




night magic
falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly
~ John Bailey