…maybe not so much. You know it’s a grey day when your photo doesn’t need a filter to convert from color to black and white. Here’s to more rainbows and, hopefully sooner than later, sunny days. The rain has to stop eventually, right?
Tag: iphone photography
Beautiful Blueberries
I love random excursions such as the Larsen Lake Blueberry Farm in Bellevue, WA of all places. A beautiful “off the side of the road” U Pick oasis in a residential neighborhood for blueberry lovers and for those, who like myself, love to meander every now and again.
I really wanted to sit on this swing all afternoon and meditate. Love the old pine wood.
Fields of blueberries where you can pick your own for hours on end but if
you are lazy like me you can purchase them onsite.
And little did I know that there were so many different varieties
of blueberries! I think I’ve only eaten one but for those who want
to know here is a list.
Emerald
Jewel
Misty
O’Neal
Sharpblue
Sunshine Blue
And speaking of blue, I am currently in LOVE with blue and in fact will be covering an old
chair in blue velvet. Here is some inspiration.
Beautiful Thought to Ponder
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
-Toni Morrison
Beautiful Nature
I spied some beautiful crocuses today and it smells like spring. I have no special knowledge of Crocuses other than the fact they seem to beat every other flower to punch when it comes to blooming. And it’s one of those names that doesn’t quite fit the plant, seems like they deserve a name that is a little more elegant. Crocus sounds too much like crocodile.
They at least they have a pretty poem:
She dwelleth in the Ground —
Where Daffodils — abide —
Her Maker — Her Metropolis —
The Universe — Her Maid —
To fetch Her Grace — and Hue —
And Fairness — and Renown —
The Firmament’s — To Pluck Her —
And fetch Her Thee — be mine —
-Emily Dickinson
Beautiful Farewell to Summer
Enjoying the last days of warm sun. Miss the long days with wind in my hair and sand in my shoes.
Beautiful iPhone Photography
“The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art
and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt
in awe, is as good as dead:
his eyes are closed”.
Albert Einstein
Beautiful iPhone Photography
I’ve become mesmerized lately by following the
magical work of Richard Koci Hernandez.
His photos tell a magical, mysterious story and
I can’t get enough. Every day I look forward to his
latest post on Instagram. Take time to enjoy it.
“The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.”
Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” Albert Camus
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beautiful iPhone Photography
Thanks to the wonderful word of Instagram,
artful photography has never been so user
friendly. Everybody can do it – even the
mini Lego peeps. U.K.-based photographer
Andrew Whyte reveals the world through
the lens of a Lego man who is obviously
having adventures of his own whether it be
climbing a fence or slipping on a banana peel.
My favorite? The diminutive little man
facing a lonely bench looming in the
background. Enjoy more Legography here.
Beautiful Sunrise
Good Morning! I want to wake up to this
every. single. day. Simply stunning.
Taken with an iPhone4, Seattle, WA
Beautiful Ode to Summer
Relishing the last day of summer enjoying a rare moment doing nothing
but leisurely reading a New York Times magazine article about Lena
Dunham…turning real paper pages (usually I’m always reading from a
phone screen) as the last rays of a disappearing summer filters through
the window rendering tree shadows.
Pure perfection.
Beautiful Poetry
The last days of summer are so fleeting, wistful of
long, warm sunny days that call upon a bit of poetry.
SUMMER’S ELEGY
by Howard Nemerov
Day after day, day after still day,
The summer has begun to pass away.
Starlings at twilight fly clustered and call,
And branches bend, and leaves begin to fall.
The meadow and the orchard grass are mown,
And the meadowlark’s house is cut down.
The little lantern bugs have doused their fires,
The swallows sit in rows along the wires.
Berry and grape appear among the flowers
Tangled against the wall in secret bowers,
And cricket now begins to hum the hours
Remaining to the passion’s slow procession
Down from the high place and the golden session
Wherein the sun was sacrificed for us.
A failing light, no longer numinous,
Now frames the long and solemn afternoons
Where butterflies regret their closed cocoons.
We reach the place unripe, and made to know
As with a sudden knowledge that we go
Away forever, all hope of return
Cut off, hearing the crackle of the burn-
ing blade behind us, and the terminal sound
Of apples dropping on the dry ground.
@the ferry dock, Edmonds, WA
Beautiful Musings 