Poetry of the Earth

The poetry of the earth is never dead

–John Keats

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

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  

 

Sunlight, Play and Renewal

Sunlight’s playful quality confirms summer’s renewal.

“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”
– Jean Piaget

Photo Challenge:  Evanescent

 

Near Ann Arbor, Michigan

Photo Challenge: Swift as a Shadow

Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream.

–Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Photo Challenge:  Evanescent

 

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Music in the Shadows

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
–Wolfgang Mozart

Photo Challenge: Reflections in Landscape’s Most Expressive Feature

“A lake is a landscape’s most expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau

Photo Challenge:  Reflecting

 

 

Au Sable River, Michigan

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

For Those Who Listen

The earth has music for those who listen.
George Santayana

Looking forward to return visits to northern Michigan this summer, in this instance the pristine and melodious Sturgeon River.

Sturgeon River, Michigan