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spring

by madd-matt

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coltsfoot
painted trilliums
amongst the ferns
starflowers
apple blossoms...
bracken
apple blossoms
last years fruit...
nodding trillium (Trillium cernuum)
amongst the ferns...
painted trillium (Trillium undulatum)
buttercup (Ranunculus)
blue-bead lily (clintonia borealis)
pink lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
columbines
pink lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
baby booties
June, sundown.
"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out until sundown; for going out, I found, was really going in." - John Muir
"Going to the woods is going home." - John Muir
"Spring in the world! And all things are made new!" - Richard Hovey
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
Fire...
“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.” - Walt Whitman
“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it” - George Santayana
"Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness!" - Thomas Blackburn
"No object is mysterious....The mystery is your eye." - Elizabeth Bowen
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." - G. K. Chesterton
In a dark time the eye begins to see. - Theodore Roethke
If you look at a thing 999 times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it for the 1000th time, you are in danger of seeing it for the first time. - G. K. Chesterton
"Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom." - Zenkei Shibayama
Ironwood compositions
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.” - Walt Whitman
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