”If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. If a shower drives us for shelter to the maple grove or the trailing branches of the pine, yet in their recesses with microscopic eye we discover some new wonder in the bark, or the leaves, or the fungi at our feet.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
(Journal, September 23, 1838)
“The Earth offers gift after gift — life and the living of it, light and the return of it, the growing things, the roaring things, fire and nightmares, falling water and the wisdom of friends, forgiveness. My god, the gift of forgiveness, time, and the scouring tides. How does one accept gifts as great as these and hold them in mind?
Failing to notice a gift dishonors it, and deflects the love of the giver. That’s what’s wrong with living a careless life, storing up sorrow, waking up regretful, walking unaware. But to turn the gift in your hands, to say, this is wonderful and beautiful, this is a great gift — this honors the gift and the giver of it. . . . Notice the gift. Be astonished at it. Be glad for it, care about it. Keep it in mind. This is the greatest gift a person can give in return.”
— Kathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
Elisa's Spot 
Beautiful shot Elisa 😀
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Thank you! I am going through the folders again 😀
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Ooooh! So beautiful and colorful. For some reason, the shape of the landscape looks familiar to me. Beautiful images, Elisa. 🙂
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Magnificent!
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Is this your beautiful world?! I see you’ve dropped some purple in there 🙂 )
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I think I could say yes. It is at the top of the driveway of friends’ organic CSA farm. It’s about 25 minutes from where I live. I can get to areas like this about five miles from my own home, though out at the farm I get to be removed from traffic sounds and small city things. One can actually notice what belongs to the body and what does not out here. You should see the stars at night!!! I can see there where I live but I always forget how much light still obliterates what is really visible! I go there and wander off to flog down on the ground for an hour or so before I talk to anyone–or do any work on the farm. That view of the colors has me think of rolling down hills and bouncing along the top of all of the colors.
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