Wild creatures
Dancing to chants of balmy evening wind
Graceful yet exotic
Uninhibited
I watch in awe
~Robyn Lee
April 8, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: Ammophila, balmy, chants, confidence, dance, evening winds, exotic, grasses, nature, pleasure, Robyn Lee, tall grasses, wild | 18 Comments
“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence,
that splendor is not beauty.”
~Benjamin Disraeli
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday weekend!
~Robyn Lee
April 7, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: canadian goose, Disrali, elegance, lake, lessons, life, magnificence, nature, reflections, refuge, teach, trees, wildlife | 15 Comments
Wind utters my
name
Bay sings softly,
an aria
Sunbeam kisses
my cheek
Clouds whisper:
Come in
by~ Robyn Lee
April 5, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: aria, bay, clouds, entrance, entrance gate, grass, grasses, invitation, nature, open, receptive, Robyn Lee, sea, sky, sun | 23 Comments
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
~ Lao Tzu
February 2012
March 2012
March 31, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: branches, ice, lake, nature, patience, peace, process, seasons, sky, spring, transition, trees | 12 Comments
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet,
and the winds long to play with your hair.”
~Kahlil Gibran
March 28, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: bare feet, beach, earth, gifts, hair, Kahil Gibran, nature, nurture, ocean, path, peace, receive, sea water, shore, sky, wind | 23 Comments
“Sometimes finding your balance requires walking a fine line.”
~Robyn Lee
March 28, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: balance, branches, evening, fine line, life, nature, risk, sky, squirrel, tree, wildlife | 22 Comments
“Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.”
~Marcus Terentius Varro
SoHo, New York City ~ 2012
SoHo, New York City ~ 1765
Lispenard’s Meadows (drawing by A. Anderson 1765)
March 21, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: Arts, build, cobblestone roads, creation, creativity, fields, human, Marcus Terentius Varro, nature, New York City, restoration, SoHo | 12 Comments
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
~ Charles Du Bos
featured subject today: Rumi the super-pup
March 20, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: boundless, confidence, dare, dream, field, forest, nature, park, potential, puppy, risk, Rumi | 11 Comments
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field, I’ll meet you there.”
~ Rumi
March 18, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: beyond, compromise, field, grasses, ideas, meeting, nature, open, park, Rumi, sky, water | 11 Comments
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
~Maya Angelou
March 17, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: answer, Bird, expression, freedom, Maya Angelou, nature, preserve, question, song, voice | 8 Comments
“There is no such thing as an ordinary day.”
~ Jim Goodwin
March 13, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: branches, contrast, Goodwin, life, nature, ordinary, red, rustic, shirt, surprise, trees, unexpected, woods | 6 Comments
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and power of contemplation…”
~Aristotle
Candid subject featured in my photo today, contemplating life– while snapping photos of the
Shinnicock Bay, is me
~ Robyn Lee
Special thanks to guest photographer, SBS, for capturing this moment!
March 12, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: awareness, contemplation, hip, life, March, nature, pain, Ponquogue Bridge, seagulls, Shinnicock Bay, sky, wind | 8 Comments
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming – dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
March 11, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: branches, doubt, dream, fear, hiding, lake, nature, peer, refuge, screen, trees | Leave a comment
“This being human is a guest house.”
~ Rumi
Please click the blue link below to read a powerful little poem by Rumi entitled:
The Guest House
The Guest House ~ Welcome « THROUGH THE HEALING LENS
March 11, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: acceptance, clearing, emotion, field, guest house, human, nature, pond, Rumi, welcome | 8 Comments
“I suppose that’s the secret, if you’re ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.”
~ Lauren Oliver
March 10, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: acceptance, beach, divine, doubt, faith, hope, Love, nature, ocean, regrets, sea, sky | 9 Comments
SoHo, New York City ~ 1765
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