#3 ❤ Dance

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
~ William Butler Yeats

6:46 I am distracted by the clouds... They are swirling and dancing their morning greeting.

#2 ❤ Curiosity Survives

"It is a miracle that curiosity
survives formal education."
~ Albert Einstein

6:46 Golden light against that yummy pale orange sherbet sky. Makes me curious as to what is coming (You know it's going to be something good.)

#1 ❤ Tell It Like It Can Be

"We have enough people who tell it like it is—
now we could use a few people who tell it like it can be."
 ~ Robert Orben 

6:28 am... the twilight sky is awash with colors and shadow and holiness.

Good Bonfire

"When you do something,
you should burn yourself completely,
like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."
~ Shunryn Suzuki

I love these golden summer sunrises w/ the sun over Asheville. It energizes my romantic heart... This morning's sunrise is sizzling, dramatic. Nothing placid here...

Miracles

Dramatic change. In seconds, horizon completely blanketed in fog. Will have to see what sun will do now. What statement it will make.

"As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles."
~ Walt Whitman

Learn the All

How can the news this morning be so terrible when outside is so beautiful?

"Reverence the highest,
have patience with the lowest.
Let this day's performance
of the meanest duty be thy religion.
Are the stars too distant?
Pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet
and from it learn the all."
~ Margaret Fuller

Looking North, Asheville is buried in low gray clouds. Above, the sky is blue, clouds are magnificent. Will wait & see if my sun appears... Heart racing. Like magic, the sun. Shining holy, sweet.

Keoki Kahumoku, ♪♫ ♪♫ Rise & Shine ♪♫ ♪♫

Higher Than You Know

Watching a half dozen crows soar against the gray sky. Cloud bubbles move right to left this morning. No sun?

"Always dream
and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better
than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself."
~ William Faulkner

Hint of orange, there. Orange through the gray. Come on dear sun. Don't be camera shy. You know I'll make you look good. Come out and play... There you are. Stunning. Glowing like a silent dream... Just like that, mere seconds, my sun has revealed and is gone...

How Important

"Kiss me you will see how important I am."
~ Sylvia Plath

Convulsions of the World

"Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world.
I'm not telling you to make the world better,
because I don't believe progress
is necessarily part of the package.
I'm just telling you to live in it,
to look at it, to witness it.
Try and get it.
Seize the moment."
~ Joan Didion

The Asheville sky is awash in glowing gold and blue this bright morning. Clear focus, waiting for the sun... Then the sun breaks the horizon with golden glory. ❤ And my heart is full of joy and clarity. Everything is a blessing... I check my shots. The colors, those vibrant celebrations, spill into power & possibilities... Fuel. Balm...

Saunter

"It is a great art to saunter."
~ Henry David Thoreau

All Delight

"Love is the perfect sum
Of all delight.
I have no other choice
Either for pen or voice
To sing or write."
~ Tobias Hume

Misty morning with gentle colors, cool air. Pretty everywhere you look. New week, new possibilities... Always best to step back, then start from a place of love. Everything falls into place...

Feel and Love and Lose

"Then, as if no one had ever tried before,
try and say what you see
and feel and love and lose."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet

Just lovely. The sky is inspiring this morning, all bright & full of aloha...

Power to Endure

Sand Hill Road...
Downtown Asheville...
"Courage is not fighting back;
it is the power to endure."
~ Robert Frost

Really Great

"Keep away from people
who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great."
~ Mark Twain

Now

"If we are ever to enjoy life,
now is the time
not tomorrow, nor next year...
Our beliefs in a rich future life
are of little importance
unless we coin them into
a rich present life."
~ Thomas Dreier

Far More Glorious

Good Lord, look at the sky! Glowing, passionate purple and orange sherbet with crescent moon. Unbelievable, beautiful sky.

"For in the true nature of things,
if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious
than if it were made of gold and silver."
~ Martin Luther

Here I am again, awash in the simple rhythms of morning... The mist makes my photos seems out of focus. They are not. :) As sharp as my imagination... & That sun pulsates goodness...

Surpassing Itself

The sun is just hanging there in the fog. Surreal apparition. Tender, like my heart. Mine, mine...

"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."
~ Simone de Beauvoir

Mick Jaggar, ♪♫ ♪♫ Street Fighting Man ♪♫ ♪♫

Limitless

Wild storm last night, thunder, lightening & power outage. Spectacular sunrise this morning.

It is like the mountains are cupping the sun in the palm of their hand...

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. they are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them, words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out."
~ Stephen King

It is SO gorgeous this morning after the storm... Clouds, fog, mist, colors. Delight. Possibilities.

Vision

Blue Ridge Parkway, near NC Arboretum

"The engineering is secondary to the Vision."
~ Cynthia Ozick

Wonders

Some mornings, silence is wondrous...

"Everything has its wonders,
even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in,
there in to be content."
~ Helen Keller

Seeds You Plant

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Saucer moon & stars above me, dawn's pastels ease into the misty sky. The mountains rise up to meet me... Hazy, warmer than usual. Thick covering of clouds frost the mountains. Colors. Birds. Airplanes... My morning prayers, those wishes & fears, are gathered up & dispersed like music in the beautiful morning sky.

Believe

"When you believe in something, you can move Mountains."
~ Isaac Stern

Finally, the sun breaks through the mist & the world opens up with wide-eyed glory. A new day... Just uploaded a rather stunning photograph of my overexposed sun at my Tumblr account....

Elvis Costello, ♪♫ ♪♫ What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding ♪♫ ♪♫

Sharing

"Sharing is healing."
~ Cathy Stone

Beautiful morning. Ahh, the golden orange sun is romancing me with its light. Pulling me into its center, like a magnet... It makes me so happy to be able to share this sunrise with you...

Live the Life You've Imagined

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe
will be simpler."
~ Henry David Thoreau

My mountain is all fog and misty and haze. A wonderland of cool beginnings... Eerie glow along the mountain ridge, through the haze, above Asheville. Some sort of golden dream...

Happier Man

"So we shall let the reader answer the question for himself. Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
~ Hunter S. Thompson

Strings of Tension

"The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worthy of Note

"A person who can create ideas
worthy of note
is a person who has learned much from others."
~ Konosuke Matsushita

All fogged in, chilly, moist, and beautiful.
Still and quiet.
Open heart,
ethereal contemplations, as light as the mist...

Based on Love

From my back deck, watched an electrical storm for hours last night... Little groggy this morning, waiting for sun.

My maternal and paternal grandmas both died on the same day, July 6, two years apart. Maybe they were bowling in heaven last night?

"In art, as in life, everything is possible
so long as it is based on love."
~ Marc Chagall

Don't Sweat

Waiting for the sun to break through the fog. Will it?

"Don't sweat the petty things
and don't pet the sweaty things."
~ George Carlin

Makes Us See

"Art does not reproduce what we see;
rather it makes us see."
~ Paul Klee

Totally fogged in. Dark, damp, beautiful... Watching the vapors rise from the cove, like fanciful dreams...

Take Root

"Liberty, when it begins to take root,
is a plant of rapid growth."
~ George Washington

The sky is just too beautiful for words... So I'll let my photograph do all the talking for me...

In Motion

Three birds in the tree and me wait for the sun...

Don't know about sunrise this morning, but the clouds are pretty. Dreaming wide.

Waiting for that sun to break through. It... is... coming...

"Our natures lie in motion
without which we die."
~ Blaise Pascal

The heart knows. It just does... Look at the sky! Hurry.

Minnie Riperton, ♪♫ ♪♫ Loving You ♪♫ ♪♫

Kiss Each Other's Eyes

"Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,
And laugh our love away."
~ William Butler Yeats

Cool air, orange sherbet sky. Pretty, calm, hazy. The birds are sleeping in this morning, I think... Oh, a kiss in the contrail...

Care

"Mālama Kekahi I Kekahi."

"Take care of each other."
~ Hawaiian Kupuna Wisdom