We All Shine On

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

~ John Lennon

So, I'm sure you've figured out by now that I can not resist snapping photos of our sunrises. Those I don't sleep through, that is. I have far more sunrise and moonrise images than I could ever show at the start and end of a blog post so why not find some good quotes and just post a bunch of them here? Kind of get it over with all at once. So I'll do just that. I hope you enjoy those great orbs in our beautiful sky. All of them were taken long before the cold weather settled in.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

~ Rumi

The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.

~ Carl Sandburg

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

~ George Washington Carver

The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.

~ Daniel Wallock

The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.

~ Alexandra Elle

(Taken through the window screen)

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.

~William C. Bryant

This far north the sun was up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

~ Craig Childs

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

~ Galileo Galilei

The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

The moon in her chariot of pearl.

~ Oscar Wilde

Universe is the Sun watching its own self.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Even

After

All this time

The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look

What happens

With a love like that,

It lights the whole sky.

~Hafiz of Shiraz

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and traveling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

~ H.G. Wells

I'll have more photos ready to rise and shine before you know it.

Intoxicated With Colour

Right now, autumn has come out in full force colour-wise. We're enjoying a week of very mild August-like weather but the trees think it's October. I'll have some autumn images for you before too long (they're still in my camera), but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy some of the many photos I still have from summer. It may be winter by the time I get around to red leaves.

We were always intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors live. 

~ Andre Derain

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

~ Edouard Manet

Our hanging basket of fuchsia, brilliantly backlit by the sun. It was recently killed off by an overnight frost.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

~ John Ruskin

A handsome jay dressed in the finest of blues.

The objects in front of you are flowers, but the subject is color.

~ Michele Cooper

The beautiful centerpiece on our table at Frank's niece's wedding, in August.

Colours are brighter when the mind is open.

~ Adriana Alarcon

You can tell it's summer when every neighbour has at least two different boats tied to their docks.

Colours are nature gone wild.

~ Raheel Farooq

One of our sweet little chipmunk friends enjoying some watermelon.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: 

Color and I are one.

~ Paul Klee

An unexpected sunflower which grew in a pot outside our kitchen door. We didn't plant it there. It must have been the wind or a thoughtful squirrel.

And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

~ Shel Silverstein

Kidlets from a cottage rental up the road enjoying their time on the water.

Colours are life.

~ Chuma Nwokolo

This little moth was wandering the wall in our stairway, one evening. All I knew about him was that he was pretty colourful. After taking a few macro images of him, I scooped him up and transferred him outside where he belonged. Through the powers of Google, I have since discovered that he is a Painted Lichen Moth.

Colour stops me in the street, invites me to breathe it in and take it with me.

~ Suzanne Partridge

A grouping of painted chairs and their shimmering reflection in the water. You'll find these right next door at my neighbour's lawn.

Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.

~ Rudolf Steiner

The blood orange perigee/supermoon in a twilight blue sky.

Thanks for allowing me to blend colours with you. More photos coming up soon.