Photo Challenge: Languid Stream of Time

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full;
unto the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

Ecclesiastes, 1:7

This shallow stream  meanders  into Lake Michigan, one of the four Great Lakes that surround Michigan’s  peninsulas, and on a languid summer day it is a treat to feel the wet sand squishing between your toes .

Photo Challenge:  Delta 

 

Warren Dunes and Lake Michigan

Poetry of the Earth

The poetry of the earth is never dead

–John Keats

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Poetry in Prose

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

You may happen upon poetry in the sound of a brook rushing over rocks on a summer afternoon.

Photo Challenge: Autumn’s Transient Music

Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane
by those who could not hear the music.
–Friedrich Nietzsche

The crimsons of  autumn are but a transient visitor, too soon faded and eclipsed by winter’s shadow.

Photo Challenge:  Transient  

 

Photo Challenge: Summer’s Lease Has Too Short a Date

 

And summer’s lease hath too short a date.
Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

Today we have the longest sunlight of the year, but the seasons are transient–and green must sometime give way to gold.

Photo Challenge:  Transient  

 

Autumn arrives at Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Photo Challenge, Focus: White Swan, Green Lake

 

On a lazy summer afternoon, the breeze whispers across the lake that it is OK to let your focus fade and just let it be for an hour or two.

 

Photo Challenge:  Focus  

 

Photo Challenge, Focus: The Chorus of Merriment

The earth laughs in flowers.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although in this instance it seems that the rushing brook in the soft focus background is joining in the merriment.

Photo Challenge:  Focus