MySpot: In the Street’s Burn

"God, it was hot! 

Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; 

this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken."

Rachel Caine

MySpot: I Will Grow

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, 

if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, 

if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, 

rejoice, 

for your soul is alive. "

Eleonora Duse

The Source

"The sun was shining on the sea,

Shining with all his might:

He did his very best to make

The billows smooth and bright -

And this was odd, because it was

The middle of the night. (...)

The sea was wet as wet could be,

The sands were dry as dry.

You could not see a cloud, because

No cloud was in the sky:

No birds were flying overhead -

There were no birds to fly."

Lewis Carroll 

No Restraints

"Though for some time I have not spoken of the roaring of the breakers, 

and the ceaseless flux and reflux of the waves, 

yet they did not for a moment cease to dash and roar, 

with such a tumult that, if you had been there, 

you could scarcely have heard my voice the while; 

and they are dashing and roaring this very moment,

though it may be with less din and violence, 

for there the sea never rests. 

We were wholly absorbed by this spectacle and tumult, 

and like Chryses, though in a different mood from him, 

we walked silent along the shore of the resounding sea...

though I doubt if Homer's Mediterranean Sea ever sounded so loud as this."

Henry David Thoreau

300... And Counting...

"I'm not searching for the exact image in my mind's eye. 

The environment is always changing my vision."

Nancy Dwyer