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Mayday en Calvarassa de Arriba

Image | May 2, 2022 | andy townend

Will you love me in December as you do in May? ― Jack Kerouac *Images made during a walk on 1 May from Valdelagua to Calvarassa de Arriba using …

Mayday en Calvarassa de Arriba

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Isla de Soto

Image | February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 | andy townend

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more

― Lord Byron


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cool light

Image | February 26, 2022February 27, 2022 | andy townend

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light
― John Milton, Paradise Lost


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autumnal thoughts

Image | October 25, 2021February 27, 2022 | andy townend

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks


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beach life

Image | October 23, 2021February 27, 2022 | andy townend

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is.
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea


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spring with rilke

Image | May 13, 2021February 27, 2022 | andy townend

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart
― Rainer Maria Rilke


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hidden

Image | April 25, 2021February 27, 2022 | andy townend

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you
because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
– Roald Dahl


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macro the third

Image | April 2, 2021February 27, 2022 | andy townend

This crazy life
This crazy world
We’re living in is
Magical

– Fly me away, Goldfrapp


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sunday blues

Image | March 14, 2021February 27, 2022 | andy townend

Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I stay away all week and still I wait
I got the blues, please come see

– Sunday Girl, Blondie


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