Advancing The Soul -- Moab, Utah
"Sometimes Thou may'st walk in Groves,
which being full of Majestie will much advance the Soul."
-- Thomas Vaughan, Anima Magica Abscondita

A towering grove of aspen trees in the LaSal Mountains above Moab, Utah...

A New And Different Sun -- Fort Collins, Colorado
"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
-- Christopher McCandless

A large orange flower in its prime enjoys the last rays of the setting sun in northern Colorado...

Shredded -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Alternative quotation:

“The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, carrot peeling, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls ( bold mine ;)

I'm betting that my stream is the only place you'll find a photograph of carrot peelings today... ;)

#carrotpeelingtuesday #veryapeeling #whatsupdoc #donthatemebecauseimweird

Everything Except Something -- Fort Collins, Colorado
"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
-- Thomas Hardy

A tiny pink flower in the early morning light of a late summer day in Colorado...

A Hint Of Forgotten Song -- Bingham, Illinois
"The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling."
-- Jack Kerouac

A late stage Yellow Morel Mushroom ( Morchella ) in a shady nook near the banks of a small stream in the deep woods of southern Illinois...

#fungusfriday #shroomshotsaturday

Deep Burn -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
-- Ferdinand Foch

Long Story Short -- Cleveland, Ohio
“A book says a simple thing in a complicated way. A photograph says a complicated thing in a simple way.”
-- Author Unknown

Taken -- Fort Collins, Colorado
"A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force.
It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you.
One must not take photos."
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson

An insect's-eye view of a large Big Sky Harvest Moon Coneflower ( Monrovia ) at the CSU Annual Trial Garden in Fort Collins...

The First And Last Time -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“Treat every natural beauty you meet as if you see it for the first and last time!”
-- Mehmet Murat ildan

The first crab apple blossom of spring, taken in my backyard...

A Better Way Of Seeing -- Fort Collins, Colorado
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt

A stalk of ornamental grass bends in the breeze on a warm summer evening in northern Colorado...