and yet, and yet…

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*

Micro Flora and some critters

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.

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Mayday en Calvarassa de Arriba

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

Isla de Soto

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

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


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autumnal thoughts

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

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


ISO64 1/640s at f / 4.0

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spring with rilke

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


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hidden

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


ISO 200, f/6.3, 1/125s

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