Times Gone By....on to 2013

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

Happy New year to all.
xxx

Unallied with Definite Form...

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde

Remnants of the Life Imagined...

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Silent Spring..50 years

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Travel Dreaming...

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St. Augustine

Circus Sands...

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
Leonard Cohen

Summer Fling..

Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.
k.d.lang

Shells and Shadows...

...to search once more for the light that sings
inside of me, the unwavering light.
Pablo Neruda

Verdant...

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries in your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
Jeannette Winterson

Indian Wedding Bangles...

It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.
Keith Bellows

Banksia Beaks...

In all things of Nature there is something of the marvellous.
Aristotle

Two Colours...

Why do two colours, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn to paint.

Pablo Picasso

Nature's Curve...

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough what is enough?
Vincent van Gogh

Deep Pool...

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.
Jeannette Winterson

Reflective Heart...

...and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart).
e e cummings

Fushcia...

Beauty can be found everywhere, anywhere, anytime......you just need to be looking.

The Lily White...

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn
The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
William Blake

Dreamy summer afternoons...

Dreamy summer afternoons, the sun on your skin, the heady scent of long grass, the warmth on the breeze, the promise of the future to come......