Life

The Sun Suspended

Breaking Through the Fog

Awash With Light

"Life is in the clouds:
 great life,
 broad life,
deep life,
elevated life."

 ~ Hawaiian Proverb

Fog and light at this dawn. (Photo)

So, the thick fog lets the sun through. Suspended, breathless, in the glorious silver white morning.

With each second, more beauty. How can I be so lucky to see this apparition?

Now the sun has broken through in absolute madness. Bright, washing everything with gold light. The world radiates.

Up to You

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." 

~ Richard Bach

Cool morning. Light fog. Many birds singing... & the pale pink dawn. Aloha World! Photo

Listen to the sounds of morning! Video

Yearning

"Yearning is essential to all real learning."

  ~ Eric Booth

Summer

"For the laughter of children

 who tumble barefooted and bareheaded

in the summer grass."

 ~ Carl Sandburg

Victories

"There are victories of the soul and spirit.  

Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."
~ Elie Wiesel

Spectacular, beautiful morning with hazy sun rays, gentle fog in cove, and my stunning bright beautiful sun ablaze in creative light... So with this sunrise photo comes the question: How can you not shine? 


Share your light.

Beauty

"Should you shield the canyons
from the windstorms,
you would never see
 the beauty of their carvings."

 ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 

Tunnel & the Light

A Friend

"A friend is one that knows you
 as you are,
understands where you have been,
 accepts what you have become,
and still, gently allows you to grow."

~ William Shakespeare

Dream

"Dream, dream, dream;

dream transforms into thoughts

 and thoughts result in action.

You have to dream

before your dreams can come true."

 ~ Abdul Kalam

Sunrise through my roses

Big bold sun, ball of fire & creativity, angel dangling in the tree, winking at me. 


Aloha, I say.
Again. 
Dream Aloha.

Darkness

"What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness."
~ M. C. Escher

Declare

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."
~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Good News

"Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!" ~ Anne Frank




My Sky Fog, My Prayers Peace. (Photo)


Someone has silver on the paintbrush this morning. Drama! (Photo)


Watched, transfixed, as the fog swirled away and let my sun in. Remarkable experience. 

Passion

"Search then the ruling passion:
This clue, once found,
unravels all the rest."
 ~ Alexander Pope

Listening to Birds at Dawn: (Photo)

Oh my goodness. Someone tipped the RED paint onto the sky. Now everything is stained! (Photo)

Red Fire Ribbons Sky (Photo)

(Please wake up Asheville and look at the red sky. I am afraid my camera can't capture all the colors.)

Sounds & Colors: (Video)

Now. Spill some gold on the sky... (Photo)  


All I hear is Stevie Wonder singing, "There's a ribbon in the sky for our love." (YouTube video) ❥❥❥❥

Contemplation

"Find delight in contemplation."
~ St. Augustine

Clouds (Photo)

Moon (Photo)

Perhaps

"Perhaps I am stronger than I think." 

~ Thomas Merton

Thick Skin

"Just pray for a thick skin and a tender heart."
 ~ Ruth Graham

Surprise

"Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, 

and not by singularity; 

it should strike the reader 

as a wording of his own highest thoughts, 

and appear almost a remembrance."

 ~ John Keats

My home and cove below are drenched in fog right now, with very little visibility. But for a breath of a second, a flash of magic and wonder, I had this gift of color and light. Surprise and delight...

Principal

"Learn the principle,

abide by the principle,

and dissolve the principle.

In short,
enter a mold without being caged in it.

Obey the principle

 without being bound by it.

Learn, Master, and Achieve!"

~ Bruce Lee

"Rapture" on Draw Something

The wild wind is causing havoc in my sky; the clouds are possessed. High drama... (Photo) 


I am having fun playing "Draw Something" on my iPad. Yesterday I drew this, and yes, it was immediately guessed as "rapture" by my friend, Zoe who is my fellow Sunrise Sister.

Appreciation

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it... while there is still time."

 ~ Dale Dauten

Harvesting Thyme

Asheville awakes. Clarity this good morning as the colors of dawn radiate. (Photo)...

The birds are singing and there's a woodpecker, insistently hammering away with dedicated persistence.  

While I say my prayers and wait for the sun, I am harvesting thyme. It is a perfect combo.

The bees have been having a thyme convention on my steps and the colors are magnificent purple and greens.

This morning, all my prayers are prayers of gratitude... And love.

My garden perch

My heart is full up with sunrise. Spilling over, out my eyes.

Enjoy

"Enjoy what you have."

 ~ David Niven

Clouds, no sunrise. Still my prayers rise up to the sky.  (Photo)

Someone heard me. The clouds moved and I have a sunrise. A spectacular one. (Photo)

Miracles

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
 ~ C.S. Lewis

Out the door. Wave at me. Say hi. I'm the one with the pink helmet that says "aloha."

An Appendage

"Put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you."
~ Dorothea Lange


Yes, it seems my camera is always around my neck, a happy appendage now...

Courage

My sun through the iris plants

My ivy and thyme kiss along the stone steps

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."

 ~ John Wayne

(It is John Wayne's birthday today. He was my Daddy's favorite actor. Recently while playing Words With Friends with my baby brother in Hawaii, we messaged dialogue to each other from the Duke's film Big Jake. But I digress...)

We begin anew. Photo.

No need to forget yesterday. We live in the present. And look at what we got to work with... Photo.

Downloading my sunrise photos feels like opening Christmas presents... EVERY day.

God

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sitting here in the cool air.
The horizon, pink, lavender.
Listening to birds, dogs, roosters.
Good morning world. (Photo)


Mist & light.
Right here, right now.
A harmony of birds serenade.
Cool joy. (Photo)


Simple, thin fog. 
Settling a bit, playing. 
Waiting. 
Absolute miracle in simplicity.


& then the sun just comes, a big red orb, 
No fan fare
Just some soft rise
And settles in the horizon, 
Lazy like an old friend.

And I look at that tree, reaching toward it and think, that is how I feel.

Reach

"There is no top.
There are always further heights to reach." ~ Jascha Heifetz

No Limits

"IF you look up, there are no limits." ~ Japanese Proverb

Kayla's Lily

This early morning sky is so beautiful. Easy to get lost in the changing ribbons of color & light. Morning aloha! Photo
...My heart glows in colors of orange and gold this morning. Everywhere I look, a miracle... 

Pillow Message

Love flourishes and multiplies... I did write about Kayla's Lily in more detail here...  on WELLWORLD: http://ning.it/Lj1r83


...Look again, find a creative angle. There is always one there for you. Use your heart.

Heaven

"Earth's crammed with heaven."

 ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Peace

 Spellbinding, this sun, this morning. Full of sunrise and mist...

"Peace is always beautiful."

 ~ Walt Whitman

Rooster sounds float with chilly fog. All aloha in my heart. My morning prayers are again for peace. (Photo) ...Watching the fog rise and tickle the sloping mountain. Imagine. (Photo) ...In the still beauty, watching spellbound, there is only peace.

Love

"Love is not thinking, but being."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Shimmer

Kolo, no longer blind, watches.

Not necessarily the sunrise

Absolutely breath-taking dawn w/ streams of new color and the magic crescent moon. (Photo) ...Colors of morning. (Photo) ...Red sun, rising softly. (Photo)  

Fill your heart with all the fresh creativity this new morning brings. Everywhere...

 "You take the pen, and the lines dance.
You take the flute and the notes shimmer.
You take the brush, and the colors sing.
So all things have meaning
 and beauty in that space
beyond time where you are.
How, then,
can I hold back anything from you?"

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Travel

Jefferson, North Carolina

"It's very far away

It takes about a half a day to get there

 If we travel by--dragonfly." 

~ Jimi Hendrix

Heartwork

For Sandy

"Now for some heartwork."

 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The truth within is easiest thing to face = heart. 

Eternity

Waiting for the sun to rise. Listening to Hendrix. "can you see me? Hey hey" (Photo)...Oh the sun is rising gloriously as I write this. Wowie. Have Mozart in my ears. MP3 shuffle

 This camera can't capture all this beauty. Saucer moon overhead... & this blazing sun, all golden hope and healing.Can't zoom in close enough. Would like to just fit into the gold...Hendrix to Mozart to Beatles. & the flagrantly perfect sun...

Even a momentary cloud break is gorgeous. You cannot hide forever. (Photo)

"Lay your money and you play your part..." am surfing on the sun's rays. Which is blazing bright, free of shackled clouds...(BTW, how about that bass line on Zeppelin's "Ramble On?" Highly recommend it with coffee & the sunrise. #JustSaying) :)

"He who binds to himself a joy
 Does the winged life destroy; 
But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sunrise."
~ William Blake