Vastness
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Same as yesterday's posting but for a panoramic view, highlighting the vastness of the area around the Tre Cime.
A capture of the contrast between the largest of mountains and rivers in the Drakensberg and the smallest of insects and flowers, and each one's unique beauty, highlighted by that of the other.
An "ice walker" looks out over the vast space of Lake Winnebago.
Photographed from Menominee Park, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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"Children, the coolness of the breeze, the beams of the moon, the vastness of space and all things of the world-these are all permeated with Divine Consciousness. Knowing and experiencing this Truth is the Goal of human birth."
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
(Sri Anandamayi Ma)
Yellow Osteospermum. - currently being brought on in the greenhouse.
As the photo name implies, this one is from near Cheyenne, Wyoming. For those of you who may be familiar with the work of C.J. Box, the scene in this photo is near the setting of some of his books. If you view the photo on a desktop or laptop monitor rather than on a cell phone monitor you can actually tell that there are horses in the photo. 😊
Quote Of The Day:
"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices -- paid by others." Thomas Sowell (1930- )
Only central Australia can provide this vast horizon. Uluru is so often imaged from close up. Here it is dwarfed by the vastness of the plain it sits within.
ever changing, constant
rhythmic and random
silence, full of sound
like cold water
soothes my soul
gull cry awakens
saline cleanses
and vastness dwarfs
as I sit and breathe
the hearty air
sometimes I talk
and the waves listen
but mostly the waves talk
while I sit still
and listen
On the road through Rannoch Moor and Glencoe in the Scottish HIghlands I could not help feeling a sense of vastness, grandeur, and loneliness.
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ~ Gustave Flaubert
"All great and precious things are lonely." ~ John Steinbeck
I realize it may sound innocent - perhaps naive - but one of the most surprising things to me about visiting Alaska was the rich color palette of the terrain. Despite being deep in Alaska, less than 250 miles from the Arctic Circle, the sun still holds its reign over the summer climate...and with nearly 24 hours of light, the vegetation has ample opportunity to grow.
Certainly, global warming, and glacial melt plays a role in seeing the deeply colored mountain range in the distance. It was surprising to me to learn that much of the green you see along the park road in Denali is vegetation growing atop the glaciers. All-in-all, I highly recommend taking the Kantishna bus tour (11-hours) in Denali, as it is the only method of getting deep into the park, with the opportunities to see as much of the geology, geography, .and wildlife possible.
While the namesake mountain is the primary calling card of this National Park, and rightfully so, it is only seen clearly by approximately 1/3 of the park's visitors, due to the near constant cloud cover. There is so much more, in terms of the vastness, grandeur, remoteness, and ecologic importance of this region to be experienced than simply the sight of Denali looming large above the subarctic plateau.
The Painted Desert is 7,500 square miles (19,400 square km).
"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint" Edward Hopper
Isaz is treacherous
she lures the exhausted wanderer
and lulls him to sleep
underneath the glistening, powderily woven raiment of
silence and peace
forever
self
till frozen to the core
only occasionally the wind whispers and groans
and haunts the infinite lorn vastness
where birdsong became myth
and spring
a long forgotten fairytale
Voyez-vous la maison verte et le grand arbre au pied des monuments ? Ils ont l'air tellement minuscule dans cette immensité.
Do you see the green house and the big tree at the foot of the monuments? They look so tiny in this vastness.
Que je sois un ange
Que je sois un diable
C'est aussi insupportable
Mon cœur est étranger
La musique le change toujours
De larmes noires et blanches
Ces chansons que pleure ma voix
Ne sont pas à moi
Elles s'enroulent autour
Et moi
Et moi
Et moi je t'aime, mon rêve obscur
Comme entre leurs murs
S'en vont les prisonniers
Et moi
Et moi
Et moi
.... with summer wind
rubbed into us
now our dreams take hold
into each other
and we feel
two
in the vastness of the night
Hans-Christoph Neuert
Above the Middle Rhine on the
Erpeler Lei
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Wir haben Abendrot
getrunken....
....mit Sommerwind
uns eingerieben
jetzt greifen unsere Träume
ineinander
und wir fühlen uns
zwei
in der Weite der Nacht
Hans-Christoph Neuert
Oberhalb vom Mittelrhein auf der
Erpeler Lei
A very special and unique coastal landscape in North Iceland featuring tall, snow-covered peaks, fjords and grassy marshes which together are quite remarkable. Here a stitched pano of a rather large stretch of this coastline.
“Your light embraces the vastness of my being , bringing warmth and comfort I have never known before. I stumbled in darkness for a life time , the joy I feel now as the night recedes , oh I bless the the day we met and curse the minutes and hours we apart. Oh how I rejoice that I met you. Love and life Return.”
Rest hope you all enjoy amsy work as always ^^
Amsy ♡
This is the latest in a series!
Thank (in advance) to you all, very much my friends!
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In a quiet moment...
Feel your oneness with earth and imagine you have roots grounding in the earth,
while your spirit still soars with the breeze into the vastness of the universe.
Zen is more of an attitude than a belief.
Zen is the peace that arises through the unity of oneself with a wholeness, a being that is of a different nature than oneself.
Zen means being aware of the oneness of oneself with the world and everything in it.
Zen means living in the present and experiencing it through and through.
Zen means being free from the distractions and deceptive conflicts of the material world.
Zen means being in tune with the universal course of things.
Zen is to fully experience the present and to enjoy the fundamental miracle of life itself.
🌄 Wishing Everyone a Good Day with Balance
All those who travel extensively like we do will know that sometimes when we arrive at new places we realise that a certain place or landscape talks to us, feels familiar, feels just right. This is how I feel everytime I visit similar landscapes like this one from Iceland's North. it's vastness, space and even desolation reverberate within me, make me feel right and at home. ...
(...)
Love can't fit in words
I will give a chance for silence to play
This moment makes me a bit embarrassed
And time after time
I take its vastness in my hand
And I hide it so, she would have a shelter here
she had a shelter here
and that will be us
how much light there is in us
let the rest slowly fade away
in a world that does not exist
(...)
** Hi I hope everyone is well . I spent the past week on the Dorset Coast based in Swanage in a most comfortable rented house . Swanage is a fairly unpretentious seaside town but it is a good base to explore Dorset .The headline news is that that it was warm and sunny for the full ten days the umbrella was never unfurled and the jumper stayed in the case.
It was our first full weeks holiday in England since 1979 and also our first visit to Dorset. . Given all that is going on right now it was great just to get away from the usual routines for a spell . We both felt much better for it we did a lot of walking but also managed to dine in some excellent restaurants . The highlight was certainly seeing some of the Jurassic coast and the spectacular cliffs that form part of it .
While Dorset and indeed much of England is very beautiful and full of superb historical sites the main problem for me is that there are always too many people and too many cars particularly in Southern England. Visitors from North America must get a shock when they visit given the scale and vastness of the landscapes in their countries . I suppose that is why we tend to go to the coast in winter when it is quieter. I will be very glad when we can visit France again were there always feels like there is more space and driving in France apart from Paris is so easy compared to the UK .
The shot was taken looking across Swanage Bay towards the town the wooden structure in the middle of the shot is the rather attractive Victorian pier .
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La malédiction de l'homme consiste à ne jamais se contenter de ce qu'il est. (Sylvain Tesson, Un été avec Homère)
LE VOYAGE FABULEUX
L’homme, dans le petit bateau, aimait raconter qu’il traversait l’Univers, à chaque fois qu’il prenait le large sur le grand fleuve, par un ciel étoilé. Comme si, l’Univers lui-même, était contenu dans son microcosme.
Le merveilleux lui suffisait, ici même… parfois avec un télescope pointé vers le ciel. Il avait conscience de la vastitude du monde et notre fragilité immense. Il se savait un homme chanceux de parcourir ce monde chatoyant, et il acceptait, avec modestie, la part de mystère qui lui était caché.
Traverser l’univers, disait-il, c’est un voyage enchanté qui commence en soi et se poursuit ici avec le chant des baleines, des bélugas, des oiseaux de mer… et les battements du coeur de la mer, de sa Terre. Ce soir là, en revenant au port, il fit jouer la chanson Across the Universe* sur son modeste lecteur audio, en souhaitant que rien ne change dans son monde. * (Beatles- John Lennon)
Patrice photographiste, Extraits de Poësia — Une Oydyssée vitale (livre à paraître)
N.B Mes images ne sont pas conçues ou générées par des Intelligences artificielles. Il s'agit d'un travail artisanal dont je suis l'auteur.
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“The curse of men is never to be satisfied with what he is. " (Sylvain Tesson, Un été avec Homère, French edition)
THE FABULOUS JOURNEY
The man, in the small boat, liked to say that he crossed the Universe each time he took off on the big river by a starry sky. As, if the Universe itself was contained in its microcosm.
The marvellous was enough for him, right here… sometimes with a telescope pointed towards the sky. He was aware of the vastness of the world and our immense fragility.
He knew he was a lucky man to travel through this shimmering world, and he was accepting, with modesty, the part of the mystery that was hidden from him.
Crossing the Universe, he said, is an enchanted journey that begins in oneself and continues here with the song of whales, belugas, seabirds... and the beating of the heart of the sea, of its Earth. That evening, returning to port, he listened to the song Across the Universe* on his modest player, hoping that nothing would change in his world. * (Beatles - John Lennon)
Patrice photographiste, Excerpts from Poësia, A Vital Odyssey (book to be published)
N.B. My images are not designed or generated by artificial intelligences. This is an artisanal work of which I am the author.
Namibia is a land filled with spectacular rare gifts from nature. They excite your senses and imagination. From the gigantic sand dunes in the south to the vast salt pans in the north, they boggle the mind.
While it is very sad to see the wildlife suffer during times of drought, one is also struck by the incredible variations created by nature. It is quite eerie to see a lone male elephant cross silently and slowly across the never ending dry and barren terrain like a mirage.