A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in –
what more could he ask?
A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
*All images made with Nikon D700 (well hello again, old friend) and AF Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens (an old, new friend)*
tsuyu no yo wa
tsuyu no yo nagara
sari nagara
– Kobayashi Issa
*All images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm 1:2.8E FL ED lens*
be in love with your life, every detail of it
― Jack Kerouac
A series of images made in the garden with poor technique and a glass of wine (or two).
A tripod would have been advisable, but hey, sometimes it is what it is.
Also, some critters were involved, although none were harmed in the making of this post.
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
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
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks
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
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart
― Rainer Maria Rilke
andy townend 