Pandora’s Aquarium

Pentax ME Super, Kiron 80-200mm f/4.5, Fujifilm 200 ISO f/4, Rolev MG 55mm Sky Filter

Reality Doesn’t Impress Me

Minolta SRT202, MC Rokkor-X 50mm, Fujifilm 200 ISO f/2.8, 1/60 s, Neutral Density Filter Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.  No more walls. ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love

Our House

Minolta SRT202, MC Rokkor-X 50mm, Fujifilm 200 ISO f/2.8, 1/60 s, Neutral Density Filter I’ll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today. Staring at the fire for hours and hours while I listen to you play your love songs all night long for me, only for me. -CSNY

Echinacea

Minolta SRT202, MC Rokkor-X 50mm, Fujifilm 200 ISO f/2.8, 1/60 s, Neutral Density Filter

Je ne sais quoi

This Mortal Coil

I Get A Little Warm In My Heart…

when I think of Winter

-Tori Amos, Winter

Plumed Thistle

Pentax ME Super, Kiron 80-200mm f/4.5, Fujifilm 200 ISO
f/4, Rolev MG 55mm Sky Filter

Queen Anne’s Lace

Pentax ME Super, Kiron 80-200mm f/4.5, Fujifilm 200 ISO
f/4, Rolev MG 55mm Sky Filter

Remember that wherever your heart is…

there you will find your treasure.

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

Pentax ME Super, Kiron 80-200mm f/4.5, Fujifilm 200 ISO
f/4, Rolev MG 55mm Sky Filter

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

[Extra "sign" photos in the Comments]

Pentax ME Super, Kiron 80-200mm f/4.5, Fujifilm 200 ISO
f/4, Rolev MG 55mm Sky Filter

Signs. Funny, poignant, symbolic, incorrect, informative, foreshadowing…there are so many signs in the world. 

Share a picture of a SIGN and explain why you chose that picture!

-The Daily Post

I have shot this image maybe a million times with probably every camera I own from my iPhone to my antique Kodak Brownie Hawkeye.  On cloudy days and sunny days, evening hours and morning hours.  Winter, Summer, Spring and Fall.  And I don’t even know why it speaks to me and begs me to take it’s picture but I do … over and over and over again.  I love the significance and the simplicity of it all at the same time.  The location is sentimental to me in a bittersweet kind of way but it’s  not really anything worthy of all this attention.  I don’t think.  Still, it does say much with absolutely no words whatsoever.  I took this particular shot last weekend and uploaded it at that time and then took it down because it didn’t feel right.  It’s like the troubled child.  Then though quite by a lovely coincidence, the Weekly Photo Challenge arrived in my email last evening, and much to my delight, it suddenly became very apropos and my troubled child found her place.  I love that this song is playing on my Spotify as I write this too.  Cosmic synchronicity and all that.

Peace.

I took a deep breath…

 and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Can I Stay

Can I stay here with you till the morning
I am so far from home and I feel a little stoned
so can I stay here with you till the morning?
There’s nothing I want more than to wake up on your floor
So lay with me in your thinnest dress
fill my heart with each caress
between your blissful kisses, whisper
darling, is this love?

-Ray LaMontagne, Can I Stay

Minolta SRT202, MC Rokkor-X 50mm, Fujifilm 200 ISO
f/2.8, 1/30 s, Neutral Density Filter, Vivitar 55mm UV-Haze Filter