“…and pondered them in her heart.”

And they that heard it wondered at the things which the shepherds told.

But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

Luke 2: 18-19

May we all ponder in our heart the things of special meaning to us.

Fleming Creek, Michigan

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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

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

 

Silent Awakenings

Sometimes the most profound awakenings come wrapped
in the quietest of moments

Stephen Crane

Hartwick Pines, Michigan

Sunlight Like a Gentle Balm

Summer sounds of a whispering brook and the sunlight pours down like a gentle  balm.

Fleming Creek, Michigan

By Nature’s Presence Enfolded

That sense of serenity and peace we find in nature–is that mildly intoxicating feeling the surfacing of long-forgotten memories of being enfolded in the love of a caretaker?

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

 

The Possible Dream

Some people see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

George Bernard Shaw, and oft quoted by Robert Kennedy

River Rouge, Michigan

Like a Child that Knows Poems by Heart

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
Rainier Rilke

Michigan is once again alive with that striking yellow-green of early May and the swirling sounds of swollen creeks.  Fleming Creek flows, rapidly now, through a woods near University of Michigan’s Matthaei Gardens.

Fleming Creek, Michigan