In Memoriam
Otis 2001-2009

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

Destiny

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.

~Bob Marley

SoaringWhen once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

In wine there is truth

They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream

Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson 1867 - 1900
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam [1896]

Sunset

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams

Winter Cabbage

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Full void

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. ~Henry David Thoreau - 1856