How tiny and delicate, this pink peacock flower is as it soak in the verdent garden air, after a tropical downpour. The raindrops linger for as long as possible, clinging to life for as long as they can, before their inevitable recycle into the void of the metaphysical. Eternal has been brought into the Present…
The Japanese enjoy the colors of autumn like no others. Here, amidst the slender trees and the autumn forests of the valleys and hills of Takao in northern Kyoto, visitors stop for a hot udon meal on their way up to the Jingo-ji temple. A missed stopped for an intended visit to Roanji Temple brought…
The South Garden offers great joy and peace because it is a garden we seldom explore in a microscopic way, but takes in on occasions its seemingly endless capacity for growth and sustenance, supporting the flora and fauna that comes to participate in its life. It is an incidental place – of blue skies…
You don’t have to finish First; You just have to finish Together
These photos, taken over two seasons in Spring, of the coastal city in the southern tip of South Korea is a wonderful reminder of the rhythm of the city as the seasons pace themselves through the year. Busan is neither metropolis nor a village, and its roots as a seaport is revealed by the dotted…
The Caesalpinia pulcherrima or Dwarf Peacock never fails to delight the parakeets as they harvest the pods and seeds. While the strict gardener will remove the pods to preserve the beauty of the bushy canopy and profuse flowers, I will leave the pods for the birds as they noisily munch on the seeds and scatter…
1 There is a bad time to rebuke someone. Those who keep silent are the prudent ones. 2 How much better to investigate than to be angry! 3 And those who confess openly will be kept from loss. 4 Like eunuchs desiring to violate a girl, so are those who make decisions by force. 5…
This is the house that Frank Lloyd Wright built over a waterfall at Bear Run, Fayette County, in rural southwestern Pennsylvannia for the family of Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann’s department store, as a weekend home. It is regarded as one of the architect’s most beautiful masterpiece, building over the falls instead of…
For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is a good thing., but if salt has become insipid, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another. (Mk 49-50) Photonote: May 2016, at Badwaters, Death Valley National Park, CA. GM1
The paved desert road in modern times, is like an air-conditioned carpet through a presently desolate but geologically recent and verdant past. But it’s not lifeless.