ProGrafix Design & Photography

spring!

The roses are blooming!! It is always a beautiful experience to see the first bloom at the International Rose Test Garden - and sublime if you go for early morning light.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
~ Henry Miller

(cactus in Joshua Tree NP, March 2021)

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cats, dogs, butterflies and people.
~ John Steinbeck

(Joshua Tree NP, March 2021)

A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife.
~ Matsuo Basho

(Joshua Tree NP, March 2021)

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop.
~Paulo Coelho

(CA, March 2021)

Sometimes you need to just stop and look up.

(Thousand Palms Oasis, CA, March 2021)

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
Voltaire

(PDX waterfront at sunrise)

It is inner stillness that will save and transform the world.
~Eckhart Tolle

(cherryblossoms along the waterfront, Portland March 2021)

And ....where is the food?

(CA, March 2021)

Elephant seal pups on the beach

(CA coast, March 2021)

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
Zen proverb

(Cambria, CA March 2021)