You choose the road, but the road chooses you.

j.lulu_photography ..Lulu🦋 "Great blue heron resting peacefully in the sunset on Anna Maria Island, Florida"

Life is a mountain — never-ending uphill, never-ending onward, never-ending becoming.

Lighting the way 🌕 📸by me

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. - Rumi . . . #8thFullMoon2025 . 🎨 Kaii Higashiyama Moon Reflection

The souls are dancing, overcome with ecstasy. I'll whisper in your ear where their dance is taking them 'Poem of the Atoms' #ArmandArmar Sun And Moon Painting #NeliaAryana

youtu.be/8XG1B_7r4y8 Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea... #DylanThomas #JMWTurner

#BlueSkyArtShow #Alternating #EastCoastKin #Canon #photography #WxSky #NJwx

A QUESTION A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth. - Robert Frost . #NewMoon . . . 🎨Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Over the Rhône, 1888. Musée d'Orsay

Juhannus Maalla Midsommar Finland

The "Atacama Desert Coast" is situated in northern Chile 🇨🇱 📸 Sony A7 IV + 14–24 mm f/2.8 @ 28 mm, f/2.8, 25 s, ISO 3200 [ #picoftheday #storytelling #art #earth #mountain #landscape #coast #night #sky #star #scape #photographer #ColorADay #photography #nature #artfight #fanart #gamedev #bb27 ]

Colpoy's Bay, Ontario at dawn #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds

‘Birds are singing the sky into place.’ ~ Joy Harjo Masao Yamamoto

Water resting on a leaf is a masterpiece of nature. It is beautiful yet desireless, complete yet fleeting.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Beauty has no past or future. It is always alive because it is present. - D.T. Suzuki

And now for something completely different..
Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954
At Home, 2011
Watercolor on paper
100 × 150 cm

Fern - Dartmoor

Harry Gruyaert County Kerry, Ireland. (West Coast) 1988

- taking up space -

“I can hear your whisper and distant mutter. I can smell your damp on the breeze and in the sky I see the halo of your violence. Storm I know you are coming.” ― Robert Fanney

Washers at Étretat by Félix Vallotton, 1899 Swiss, 1865-1925 Oil on cardboard

ISLA DESTERRADA Mi corazón es una tierra que ha roto relaciones con el mar En la mitad del agua, pero árida y sedienta como el desierto ¡Qué amargo aislamiento! Me digo a mí misma: Qué larga es la distancia entre los peces y yo. Fatema Rakei (Irán) 1954 Photo by John Adriaan - 1954

#bonsai #tree in #longwood #gardens #pennsylvania #botanical #horticultural #japanese #zen #display #garden #photography #art

- so many stories to tell -

Simplicity or Complexity? #photography #blackandwhite #plants #garden #minimalist #shadow #art

La lune blanche Luit dans les bois; De chaque branche Part une voix Sous la ramée… Ô bien-aimée L’étang reflète, Profond miroir, La silhouette Du saule noir Où le vent pleure… Rêvons,c’est l’heure Un vaste&tendre Apaisement Semble descendre Du firmament Que l’astre irise… C’est l’heure exquise.

Ohara Koson ~ 1877 - 1945 Egrets in the Snow - 1927 Japanese Colour Woodblock Print.

The moon last night

Tonight's moon

“What if instead of rain, songs were stored in clouds? Instead of Cumulonimbus, they were Cumulonimusic?” ― Jarod Kintz backyard clouds☁️

🖌️Arvid Johansson, 1901

“I am out with lanterns looking for myself” ― Emily Dickinson

The Big Moon by Marianne von Werefkin - 1923 Russian, 1860-1938

Igual que los bancos de nubes son barridos por el viento del alba, el primer grito de los gansos salvajes revolotea en la montaña. Saigyō (Japón, 1118-1190) Art: Winifred Austen, Ducks flying low over the water -1930

#BookWormSat "So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be. It's when I'm weary of considerations, And life is too much like a pathless wood" Robert Frost, Birches

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (5th July) was at 4.59am, sunset is at 9.23pm

some clouds and clarity

Above and below the River Taw on #Dartmoor yesterday 😍

“Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

I closed my mouth And spoke to you In a hundred silent ways... #Rumi

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. #FScottFitzgerald #ShakespeareandCompany #Paris

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. #JosephCampbell

youtu.be/aFkcAH-m9W0 Across the Universe divide...I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can. Perhaps I may become a highwayman again, or I may simply be a single drop of rain, but I will remain, and I'll be back again. #JohnnyCash