lotsa madonnas

"..in my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me.."

reflections

“Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

a walk by the river reveals beautiful things

“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”
~Victor Hugo

wind power

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
~Albert Einstein

fireworks: iowa city 2009

"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
~Teilhard de Chardin

baby bird

"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting."

~Kahlil Gibran



lake merritt

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home"

~Matsuo Basho

sand lake shoot

not just black and white

"The color of truth is grey."
~Andre Gide

multiple exposures

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
~Albert Einstein

odds and ends

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."
~Confucius

light

"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep"
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe