Day 13 – To win the sky
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“At the end of the night awaits the white morning: showered in sunlight.” ~ Gerrit Achterberg A lot of the time I find myself talking pictures with the same lens despite the fact that I […]
“ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, […]
“So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; […]
“Nature has undoubtedly mastered the art of winter gardening and even the most experienced gardener can learn from the unrestrained beauty around them.” ~ Vincent A. Simeone
“The air is blue and keen and cold, With snow the roads and fields are white; But here the forest’s clothed with light And in a shining sheath enrolled. Each branch, each twig, each blade […]
“Even so, [… in the silence after a winter storm has ceased to howl, in the soft whisper of a morning snowfall, in the way the moonlight sparkles over new-fallen snow, you can feel when […]
“Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.” ~ Robin Lane Fox
“All Heaven and Earth Flowered white obliterate… Snow…unceasing snow” ~ Bashō Matsuo