Something Better

Gray rain clouds with hope-full glimmer of gold. I'll take it.

"There is no medicine like hope,
no incentive so great,
and no tonic so powerful as expectation
of something better tomorrow."
~ Orison Swett Marden

Merely Inquisitive

"I have no particular talent.
I am merely inquisitive."
~ Albert Einstein

Sacred

"It doesn’t have to be somber to be sacred."
~ David J. Wolpe

Angle of Repose

"In the mountains where I live,
geologists and miners use the elegant term
'angle of repose'
to describe the precise angle
at which a boulder will rest on the side of a hill,
rather than tumble downward.
I think of that image as the point at which
prayer and action meet."
~ Philip Yancey
Prayer Does It Make a Difference

Remarkably, I thought all was gray this morning, but was treated to (brief) glowing horizon as I said my morning prayers.

Good Grace

Hazelnut coffee. Light dusting on ground. Gold blue twilight. No clouds. Mighty ridge. Should be clear cut sunrise. :) Good morning!

"Our lives are of great worth
if we accept with good grace
the situation Providence places us in,
and go on living lovingly."
~ Takashi Nagai

Choices

"You are your choices."~ Alexandra Stoddard

Can't begin to describe this sky--blanket of dotted clouds--across & above--in orange gold wonder. Unbelievable... Which one, which one do I post today? How do I choose?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I choose all.

Elton John, ♪♫ ♪♫ Come Down in Time ♪♫ ♪♫

Singleness of Purpose

"You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
have anything you desire,
accomplish anything
you set out to accomplish--
if you will hold to that desire
with singleness of purpose."
~ Robert E. Lee

Hard for me to not believe in the existence of God when I behold this beautiful, fiery sky.

Your Motto

So nice of the sky to glow red this morning...

So nice of the sky to glow purple this morning...

"Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful."
~ Brenda Ueland

Everything That Counts

"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
~ Albert Einstein

Your Deepest Presence

Sunset's gentle colors...

"Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror
up to where you're bravely working.

Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
if it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.

Your deepest presence
is in every small contracting and expanding,
The two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings."
~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Live Together

"We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Back from walking in the snow. My lungs are filled with the clean Twilight Sky, sparkling stars, and clouds gathering, waiting for the sun...Everything so pretty here. Cold, but invigorating. Conducive to creativity. Feel full up with joy...

Inner Fire

Apparantly it is -1°F on this back deck. No wonder I can't feel my face or fingers. (But the sunrise sure is pretty.)

"In everyone’s life at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter
with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the human spirit."
~ Albert Schweitzer

To Love Deeply

Let the sun rise in glory...

Oh my magic sky!

"To Love deeply in one direction
makes us more loving in all others."
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

First light along the ridge. Gold and gray clouds. Sunrise coming this morning. YAY! ...Two deer watch me watch the sun... Snowflakes... Red horizon...

Mountain and Me

"We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains."
~ Li Po

Organized Life

"Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life."
~ Immanuel Kant

Freezing outside. But the twilight blue, emerging light, & stars along the ridge cleanse the soul.

Quality of the Day

Orange sherbert sky and snow covered Pisgah Forest. Spellbinding...

"To enhance the quality of the day ...
That is the highest of the arts."
~ Henry David Thoreau

As For Me

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

Gentle snowflakes, glowing sun crests and breaks through the clouds. That glow, my heart. Love and aloha.

What You Do

Just a dusting of snow yet still so much radiance...

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is."
~ Ernest Hemingway

Look at a Picture

"You can look at a picture for a week
and never think of it again.
You can also look at a picture for a second
and think of it all your life."
~ Joan Miró

Gerry Rafferty, ♪♫ ♪♫ Baker Street ♪♫ ♪♫

Live

Apparently sunrise decided to get even more spectacular & I need a wider lense.

"Live the questions."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Love Like That

Thank you, @primalmarks...

"Even
After all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
'You owe Me.'
Look at what happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky."
~Hafiz

Cloudless sky awash in twilight blue, glows gold along my ridge. Venus winks a fanciful dream above. I wait, happy, for the sunrise... Now everything is golden. The sky, my heart, this day...

Only Dreamers

If you look closely, that black bird is perched in the tree, far right...

"Only dreamers can teach us to soar."
~Anne Marie Pierce

Three deer,the sky, trees, and me wait for the sun... Who has a better sunrise perch, me or you, oh sweet black bird?

Tom Petty, ♪♫ ♪♫ Learning to Fly ♪♫ ♪♫

Follow Your Spirit

"As you listen to your spirit, peace follows.
So follow your spirit.
Build your foundation in your heart."
~ Sara Paddison

Oh! the 1st morning light is beautiful. Bright orange and red against the snow filled mountain ridge. Stunning...This mountain air is some sort of elixir. Fills the lungs clean and heart with possibilities... And the actual sunrise: Photo

True Mystery

"The true mystery of the world
is the visible, not the invisible."
~ Oscar Wilde

Not a cloud in the sky and my Pisgah Forest ridge glows golden from the soon-to-rise sun... Ice shards... Bare branches, reaching up to blue, bathed in sunlight...

Passionate Colors

Gentle, gentle snowflakes and sky is pure light with sun behind the clouds. So...much...beauty...

Spectacular sky. Clean and gorgeous. Waiting to see if sun will crest...

"Life is a celebration of passionate colors."
~ Leialoha Cator

Oh. Life is wonderful.

Walking Through Snow

Waking up to white...

"Life is like walking through snow:
every step shows."
~ Jess Lair

Heavenly Peace

"All is Calm, all is bright...
...Sleep in heavenly Peace."
~ John Freeman Young

Last minute errands to run while the valley sleeps. Lightness and holiness in the air... Christmas!

Makaha Sons, Silent Night (German, Filipino, & Hawaiian verses)

Whetted, Translucent

Glorious, Happy Xmas to one and all!

Sky clean crisp blue. Orange gold clouds are moving left to right... Clouds moving so fast across my horizon. My heart (and camera shutter) thumping happy.

"The secret of seeing
is to sail on solar wind.
Hone and spread your spirit,
till you yourself are a sail,
whetted, translucent,
broadside to the merest puff."
~ Annie Dillard

My God, that bright nearly full moon in the trees against the midnight blue sky is gorgeous: Gorgeous moon.... Golden glow along the ridge with fluffy clouds scattered. My prayers this morning are focused on peace... and love...

John Lennon, ♪♫ ♪♫ Happy Xmas ♪♫ ♪♫

To Love Someone

Happy Birthday, Steven

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

I love you like the sunrise...

Vividly Most Perfectly

"For man, as for flower and beast and bird,
the supreme triumph is to be
most vividly most perfectly alive."
~ D. H. Lawrence

Can this sky blaze any more orange, yellow, and red? ...Always love downloading these photos to see what I've caught. This morning's is very special...

What We Give

"We make a living by what we get
but we make a life by what we give."
~ Winston Churchill

Till the Stars Come Down

I love to see what dawn's light reveals. It is always magic.

Venus burns brightly in the night sky, throwing light on my ridge, which looks clear enough for a sunrise this morning...

"Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop."

~ W.H. Auden

Hapa, ♪♫ ♪♫ Anjuli♪♫ ♪♫

All Life's Moments

"Beauty is a reflection
of all life’s moments—
joy, sorrow, love.
It begins inside long before
it shows itself on the surface."
~ Dayle Haddon

Frank Sinatra, ♪♫ ♪♫ The Christmas Song ♪♫ ♪♫