Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

Be Kind To Your Friends in the Swamp...

 

Be kind

To your web-footed friends,

for a duck may be somebody's Mother.

Be kind to your friends in the swamp,

where the weather is very very damp....

 

The End!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Muscovy Ducks at Treaty Park being very friendly.

 

 

Venus

 

The thing is that Venus has been so bright in the Western sky lately

that she takes my breath away.

 

 

It is difficult to take an interesting photograph of a little white dot of light,

so I borrowed this moon shot with Venus, taken in 2013.

 

But seeing it is the best!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venus is at it's brightest now, while the moon is waning and visible in the late night or early morning sky.

 

 

Beauty, Love

 

 

Beauty in the world is experienced by the individual as feeling.

 

If we look more closely at beauty and try to describe more carefully the beauty of the world,

we do not arrive at aesthetics, but rather love.

 

Is not beauty the particular way in which the world expresses itself as love?

 

...love, the interior presence of beauty.

 

 

 

 

From the book by Robert Sardello, Love and the Soul, Creating a Future for Earth.

 

Stillness

 

 

Movement in the stillness,

more in the woods behind us,

squirrels and owls,

and under the surface of the water.

 

A balance is struck at the end of the day

as the light fades

and we rush to beat the darkness home.

 

 

 

 

Sunset at Vail Point on Moultrie Creek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aviles Street

 

 

This is the old Aviles Street.

Come to First Friday tonight to see the new Aviles street,

with sidewalk cafes and lots of new galleries.

 

Including Butterfield Garage on Aviles!

Laine's photos will be on display through the month of February,

alongside the other wonderful artists from Butterfield Garage.

 

 

 

 

 

Butterfield Garage on King Street is set to open in April of this year!