Bold Winds Speechless

But, as we often see against some storm
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below
As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Summer storms in Michigan approach “anon the thunder.”

Tasting Life Twice

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
– Anais Nin

Nature Through Our Filter

What we observe is not nature, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
-Werner Heisenberg

Huron National Forest, Michigan

Our Doubts Are Traitors

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Genesis

This is a wonderful day.  I have never seen this one before.
Maya Angelou

Hartwick Pines, Michigan

Power of the Suggestive

The power of the suggestive is much greater than
the statement of reality.

C.W. Mundy

Kensington Park, Michigan

Beauty in Light and Shadow

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy,   Anna Karenina

Summer’s medley, composed of light and shadow.  is now playing at Michigan’s lakes and woods.

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Dreamer Finding His Way by Moonlight

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Iargo Springs, Huron Nat’l Forest, Michigan

Our Memories, Our Stories

Every person’s memory is their own private literature.

— Aldous Huxley

And I have memories that stretch across several decades of early evenings at Hartwick Pines state park in northern Michigan.

Hartwick Pines, Michigan

 

The Real Magician was Light Itself

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches
and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize
that the real magician was light itself“.
…Edward Steichen…

Kensington Park, Michigan