Quote for Today: John Lubbock
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across …
Quote for Today: Richard Adams
As Hazel still went up, the south wind began to blow and the June sunset reddened up the sky to the zenith. Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was …
Quote for Today: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
But illness does not always write itself upon the body, the sickness I search for is hidden deep within the brain. Sometimes it rises to the surface. Sometimes the face …
Quote for Today: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
I looked out the window at the black clouds ahead of us. I opened the back window and smelled the rain. You could smell the rain in the desert even …
Purple to Gold Manipulations: Sunrise over Lake Scott, Set 6
Last set from Lake Scott! What a beautiful morning that was. The cloud cover made things even more impressive by delaying and softening the sunrise. If you’d like to read …
Sunrise over Lake Scott, Set 5: Light and Shadow
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Journey with Clouds: Sunrise over Lake Scott, Set 4
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Dawn Sequence: Sunrise over Lake Scott, Set 3
And, after all that, the sun escaped into the clouds to hide a little longer. If you’d like to read about my sunrise experience at Lake Scott, please click here.
Lake Scott Sunrise, Set 1: Cloudy Dawn over Lake Scott
Early dawn. The sun is still struggling to get over the canyon rim, so the light is gentle, for now. The Moon, only a sliver, still …
Expectation, Fear and Empathy: Cloud by Katherine McDaniel
Sharing new work can be both a frightening part of the creative process and a moment full of blissful surprise. This poem tells of the swirling feelings of expectation, disappointment, and wonder that are part …