Loved

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
~ Oscar Wilde

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, ♪♫ ♪♫ E Ku U Morning Dew ♪♫ ♪♫

Lovely Moment

OMG... The sky this morning is magnificent. I need a wider lens: http://t.co/zUgJzTj5

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
~ Richard Bach

Free to Fly

"Some people regard discipline as a chore.
For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."
~ Julie Andrews

Mighty gorgeous morning. Love those puffy clouds along the ridge: http://t.co/vVIAQoi9 ...Wow! ...Thrilled that crow flew into the sun as I snapped!

Richer Fruits

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
~ Abraham Lincoln

Get to Understanding

"The way we're going to get to understanding
is for each man to open his heart
and open his mind
and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor."
~ Pearl Bailey

Great Blessings

"All the great blessings of life
Are present in my thoughts today."
~ Phoebe Cary

Cold outside, but this will be my first clear sunrise in days. Very happy... This golden moment, before my sun crests, is pure thanksgiving. All problems are replaced with joy and gratitude. It is the most amazing gift... And now, all I need do is breathe in her golden rays...

Real Glory

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees
and then coming back.
That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
~ Vince Lombardi

Wingless Flight

For @primalmarks, waiting in Texas...

"Love changes darkness into Light
and makes the Heart take a wingless flight."
~ Helen Steiner Rice

It is truly lovely here this morning. So enjoy watching the colors of sky change; only natural to offer prayers to the sky. ...Magnificent colors! Red sky. Glorious clouds. Wowee! http://twitpic.com/6l661p ...Need a wider lens. Heart overflowing with clouds.
coming... http://twitpic.com/6l6c88 ...Flock of birds greet the sun (zoom in to see them) ...

I Rediscover

"I invent nothing. I rediscover."
~ Auguste Rodin

There's gold along the ridge; the sun is coming, with it, the perfect sounds of morning. http://twitpic.com/6kq4yi ...I love how the sun sparkles behind the tree branches just before it crests the ridge. Fireworks of gold and orange.

Divine Things

"Human things must be known to be loved:
but Divine things must be loved to be known."
~ Blaise Pascal

Playing With the Sun

Bathed in sunlight, My Kolohe

Red Glow. Sun Close to Crest. Mist Fine. Chilly

Trying new things. "stepping lightly & feeling no pain;" out of my comfort zone, for sure. Highly recommend the leap.

Ongoing Guts

"Everything is writable about
if you have the ongoing guts to do it,
and the imagination to improvise.
The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt."
~ Sylvia Plath

Roosters crow & crows fly against sky. Waiting for my sun. http://twitpic.com/6jttno...
My heart is on overdrive.

My Heart

"I will greet the day with love in my heart."
~ Og Mandino

Not a cloud in the sky & the horizon glows orange to back light my Pisgah Forest ridge...
Lucky. Have so many blessings. I count them as I walk around my garden, waiting for the sun...
Wow. That was a good one.

Please Notice

"I urge you to please notice
when you are happy,
and exclaim or murmur or think
at some point,
'If this isn't nice,
I don't know what is.'"
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Man Without a Country

The ridge glows golden and I (with the gentle mist and fog) wait for the sun: Morning aloha...
All golden light. Blazing... This morning's sun is honey fire, creative turbo light...

Holy Spirit

"A holy spirit lives within you."
~ Leo Tolstoy

Interpret My Dreams

"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life,
but rather for my life to interpret my dreams."
~ Susan Sontag

The clouds are a whirling magic display. Rising, moving beauty... Now orange blazes the sky. More! Spectacular cloud & light show here on the ridge this morning. Absolutely remarkable.

Journey

"Success is not a destination; it is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind."
~ Zig Ziglar

The ground is soaked with rain. The wind is whipping. Trees are dancing wildly. Chilly rain and gradual light... Tremendous wind. Glorious sky!

Leap

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why.”
~ Albert Einstein

Someone... an angel perhaps... scrawled swirls of orange doodles on this morning's hazy gray sky... Maybe it's the jet trails of her angel wings?

Harmony

The clouds are a rainbow of colors reaching across the horizon...

"Happiness is when what you think,
what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Hopeful Gardeners

"Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers."
~ May Sarton

Dawn is purple pink. The color of iris dreams... The horizon radiates red where the sun will rise. There's haze, clean air, and promise... And then my sun just hangs there, glowing orange gold. A mirage, a talisman... The close up is stunning, but today, let me pull back as far as I can because the mountain contours are a resting lover...

True Joy

"Without kindness there can be no true joy."
~ Thomas Carlyle

First thought this morning, I woke up with the notion of radiating kindness to others, like the sun... Then watched this sunrise. :) Aloha!

Overwhelmed that the sun has reflected my heart's thoughts with kind rays that extend out with brilliant love...

Eddie Vedder, ♪♫ ♪♫ Just Breathe ♪♫ ♪♫

It's Energy

"Love isn’t material. It’s energy…
We experience it as kindness,
giving, mercy, compassion, peace,
joy, acceptance, non-judgment,
joining and intimacy."
~ Marianne Williamson

Glorious Asheville sun! You are magnificent this morning. All golden glow. My heart soars...

Oh, this sun!

More Radiant Than Ever

"The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever."
~ Victor Hugo

Cloudy chilly morning. I... slept... in... My sun is putting on a light show through the heavy clouds. Inspiring!

Solve It

"The best way to escape from a problem

 is to solve it."
~ Welsh Proverb

Art Is A Guarantee

"Art is the guarantee of sanity.
That is the most important thing I have said:
Art is a guarantee of sanity."
~ Louise Bourgeois

Bond Between Earth & Sky

"In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man."
~ Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue

Friendships

Am waiting for the sun and cutting and bottling thyme harvested from my garden to take to my friend Susan in Seattle.

"Life's about friendships,
the way you love your partner,
the way you care for your children.
That is what life is about."
~ Joe Strummer

Fog drenches the cove with thick wonder & the sky is alight with rich pastels. Surreal glory.

Discovery

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Heavier Things

"Bear patiently, my heart,
for you have suffered heavier things."
~ Homer

Fog might be blocking the sun, but the clouds above are glowing fire orange. wow. wow. wow... Look up. Let the sky ease your cares. Let light in.

Stillness the Dancing

2 black crow, sitting on a branch, surveying the cove, no doubt waiting for the sun as well...

"So the darkness shall be the light,
and the stillness the dancing."
~ T.S. Eliot

You Will Find

"Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have."
~ Norman Vincent Peale

Travel Light

Chattanooga, Tennessee



"He who would travel happily must travel light."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Early morning ride through downtown Chattanooga, over the Tennessee River. Barely no one awake. Caught the sunrise over the Walnut Street Bridge.

Ideas

"The best way to have a good idea
is to have a lot of ideas."
~ Linus Pauling

#14 ❤ Leap of Faith

"Credo ut itelligem--
belief precedes knowledge;
it is the first step.
We need to make an intial leap of faith.
Faith is stronger than fear,
and fear is the killer of beginnings."
~ Anne Hazard Aldrich

7:15 Leap of Faith... That is what this ritual is. Every morning. As I contemplate life's challenges, I believe in human potential for creativity and compassion. I know that faith is stronger than fear and I am reassured by this living proof of redemption.

#13 ❤ Love

"To love someone
is to see a miracle invisible to others."
~ François Mauriac

7:04 All love...

#12 ❤ Rhythm Within Rhythm

"I want to proclaim out loud
that life is only rhythm and rhythm within rhythm."
~ Guy Tirolien

6:59 It's all rhythm within rhythm. Such is life, donchathink? Orange becomes gold becomes blue sky... Change is constant now. I notice how the mountain curves and shadows.

No tripod or music today, my camera's on a strap around my neck & I'm sitting here watching the show with my laptop... My heart thumps hard, I can feel it... No cropping; always wish my lense was wider, stronger...

#11 ❤ Spiritual Realm

"There is a spiritual realm
that is available to all
who find its many entrances."
~ James Melvin Washington

6:55 Difficult to describe the 15 photos that came before this one, only they are just as breathtaking as this one... Birds are soaring and singing all around me... Golden orange makes the mountain's silhouette dramatic and that holy spirit I believe in is moving strong in my heart.

#10 ❤Creative Problem-Solving

"Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving."
~ Michael J. Gelb

6:52 Look at how the sun radiates... At this point, I've shot 50 photos and wonder how do I choose just one for this blog... Need a sunrise committee to help me problem solve this dilemma...

#9 ❤ Inside You

"The magic is inside you.
There ain't no crystal ball."
~ Dolly Parton

6:51 No matter how far up you go... MAGIC!

#8 ❤ One Man's Ceiling

"One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor."
~ Paul Simon

6:51 Now is a good time to pull back and look at the clouds. If there are clouds, they will be putting on their own show to compliment the sun... I find that pulling back always gives a new perspective...

Paul Simon, ♪♫ ♪♫ One Man's Ceiling ♪♫ ♪♫

#7 ❤ Grateful Thought

"A grateful thought toward heaven
is of itself a prayer."
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

6:49 All sun, all glory. Wisps of fog. Orange sky. Drink it in...

#6 ❤Stay Focused

"My secret? See it, and stay focused on it."
~ Shaquille O'Neal

6:47 Can't get close enough. Stay focused. And the action is so fast, every shot is different, in subtle ways... Shadow, color, light. High Drama. And I am utterly mesmerized... Time stands still.

#5 ❤ A Gift

"Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

6:47 Now all I can do is hold my breath and shoot the gift... The vivid orange is remarkable this morning... And the birds are out, singing, as if they know, feel, celebrate my joy...

#4 ❤ One Joy

"One joy dispels a hundred cares."
~ Confucius

6:47 There is no way for me to adequately express the pure joy I feel every time that sun cracks the horizon. It happens so quickly, it is easy to miss, yet if I catch it...