Subscribe2
Face Photos from Readers
Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Apr 04
Poetry of the Week
The Rhodora
- Ralph Waldo EmersonRhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask, I never knew:
But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.Posted: 2025 Apr 04
Tag Archives: Flowers
More Scenes of Ireland
More miscellaneous Donegal scenes. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Landscapes, Through Space
Tagged Beaches, Bridges, Buildings, Flowers, Skies
8 Comments
More than Pretty Hills
Scenes of Ireland Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Flora, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Birds, Flowers, Mammals, Terra Firma, Travel, Water
10 Comments
How Fast?
Thank goodness for differences of opinion. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Laughing Frequently
Tagged Flowers, Poetry, Weather
10 Comments
Squares and Rectangles
The mathematics of beauty Continue reading
Poppy Surprise
Live and learn. And collect poppies. Continue reading
Roy G Biv
Herewith, my (Canadian) Thanksgiving post. YouTube still has no category for my content, which is a nature-photography/feel-good mash-up, 100% non-denominational, non-partisan, and non-fattening. I can’t imagine why. One thing I learned making this video is that the mnemonic for the … Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Nature Videos, Through the Calendar
Tagged Birds, Flowers, Skies
14 Comments
Awatto and Environs
A staycation of sorts. Continue reading
An All-Volunteer Army
Soon there will be no professionals left. Continue reading
La bee en rose
Faint echoes of two songs. Continue reading