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Canon EOS 6D - f/5 - 1/1000sec - 32mm - ISO 200
recollection of a very short winter season
herinnering aan een hele korte winter
“Yesterday, Day of Recollection, realized again above all my need for profound and total humility—especially in relation to any work I may do for peace. Humility is more important than zeal. Descent into nothingness and dependence on God. Otherwise I am just fighting the world with its own weapons, and there the world is unbeatable. Indeed, it does not even have to fight back: I will exhaust my self and that will be the end of my stupid efforts. To seek strength in God, especially in the Passion of Christ.”
“On the night watch, hurrying by, I pushed open the door of the novice’s scriptorium and flashed the light over all the empty desks. It was as if the empty room were wholly full of their hearts and their love, as if their goodness had made the place wholly good and rich with love. The loveliness of humanity, which God has taken to Himself in love, and the wonder of each individual person among them. This is of final and eternal significance. To have been appointed by God to be their Father, to have received them from God as my children, to have loved them and been loved by them with such simplicity and sincerity, without nonsense or flattery or sentimentality: this is completely wonderful and is a revelation...”
- Thomas Merton, The Intimate Merton (December 11,1961)
Great Blue Heron in a watery environment.
From the same 2021 folder as the last photo - Another New Year's Eve photo!
My recollection is that these are a local subspecies in this area. I'll look it up and get back to you. This one looks like an exotic sea-creature -- and I love the wine-colored flower just opening. The whole "puff-ball_ is maybe 1.5 in (4 cm) in diameter. Lots of these out on our morning walk in the Spring WINDS. I trusted the forecaster and was underdressed!
My grandparents staircase built at the turn of the century (1900) which I've passed thousands of times . Graz . Styria . Austria . Europe
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
William Wordsworth. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
My grandparents staircase built at the turn of the century (1900) which I've passed thousands of times . Graz . Styria . Austria
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"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."
— Albert Einstein
"Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.”
— Bob Dylan
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Getting 'H' up Moel Siabod, it was so lovely to share the rest stops with him.....this being the first and always much needed one!
Here's something different and a lot more meta...and a lot less detail than you're normally seeing here...
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm/f.1.8
When traveling around in I-90 corridor it is always fun to look up at the surrounding hills and mountains and pick out places to which we have been. From this vantage point, I could see the location where I stood to shoot the images for a panorama of the Snoqualmie Pass area. The spot is the small area of snow in the middle of the image where the ridge starts to decline.