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Pilot Knob State Park - Iowa
Hiking the trails on a beautiful afternoon enjoying the spring weather! Fresh green leaves. seed pods and sunlight . . .
Such simplicity surrounding us everyday!
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There is beauty in
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Once Broken and Forgotten - The Couple
Once Broken and Forgotten - Hatched
@ Spookzilla Hunt
Zombie Suicide
Pile Succulents - Reds - Materials
Una solitaria hoja (estaba, no la puse) sobre el asiento de un banco y que lucía maravillosa gracias al único rayo de sol que la iluminaba en ese momento.
Yesterday while visiting a butterfly exhibit with my daughter and her friend I came across a quote that I've never heard before. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ― Dan Millman I love this because there is no need to stay locked in whatever has happened before and is now holding you back. Release that energy and have it help move you forward. Change! It is my word of the year and I need to stay working towards that goal. Are you staying focused on your goals this year? If not, why? Are they really something you want?
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” - Henry D.J. Walden
This is how I feel when I look out my window towards my garden every morning. The plant is another beautiful spring wildflower in my garden called the Celandine Poppy. I love it's cheery yellow bloom but sometimes keeping it simple and looking more closely at just the light it captures and the textures of the plant gives me a more calming feeling. Happy Monochrome Monday!
Early morning on the beach at Cullen ......no one has been on here yet and the tide going out........ no foot prints in the sand ,so it was as simple as it gets .......just flat sand ,a few small waves and a piece of seaweed/kelp on the beach ....job done..........Cullen,Banffshire,Moray,Northeast Scotland
“The situation I am in now has been given me to change me, if I will only surrender completely to reality as it is given me by God and no longer seek in any way to evade it, even by interior reservations. Hitherto my interior reservation has been always, “Of course there must be something better, and who knows if that is not for me?”
Well there is something better, but it must come out of an inner transformation of my own self, in Christ. What is better is Christ, that is to say, for me to live completely in and by Him. I already do live in Him, of course, but there remains much to be surrendered that still remains “my own.”
January 28, 1963: “Here at the Hermitage, in deep snow, everything is ordinary and silent. Return to reality and to the ordinary, in silence. It is always there if you know enough to return to it. What is not ordinary—the tension of meeting people, discussion, ideas. This too is good and real, but illusion gets into it. The unimportant, words, and images become more important than life. One travels all over vast areas, sitting still in a room, and one is soon tired of so much traveling.”
-Thomas Merton, The Intimate Merton: January 25, 1963
I took this photo of a beautiful flower in my garden and I just love the simplicity of this photo showing just the flower without any background distractions. I was once told that sometimes less is more and this photo for me is a perfect example of that saying. For me just showing the flower on its own is more beautiful than having it surrounded by other flowers as it makes it stand out.
"In a world that glorifies more, choose less. Let your life be filled not with things but with meaning, quiet mornings, the laughter of someone you love, the first sip of coffee. True wealth isn't in possessions but in the beauty of the ordinary. Simplicity isn't emptiness; it is clarity, a life stripped of excess to reveal what truly matters. Slow down, breathe, and notice: happiness isn't something to chase, it's already here, waiting to be seen."
- Olivia Ann Rose
I tried number of complicated set ups today, but none of them made me happy. In the end I chose this single Aster flower from the garden, because I love the colour, and photographed it on a simple piece of white perspex. The flower is ⅞" across at its widest point.
For this week's Macro Mondays group theme, Reflection.
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Kutubdia, Bangladesh, 2015
Life you had, is the life we have
The time you were, is the time we are
Simplicity of life which we are enjoying, is what you lost.
"Simplicity is not about deprivation. Simplicity is about greater appreciation for things that really matter."
In times where lots of people seek the extraordinary, I keep looking for simplicity and cherish its beauty that so many people overlook, let it be in nature or in human beings.
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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Simplicity is the final achievement - Frédéric Chopin
Terraced outbuilding at Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin - once owned by the Guinness family.
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