Embracing a Quieter Tone

".... Shining like ghostly figures

against a darkening (...) background."

     

Rosemary Verey - The Scented Garden

Craving: Springs Ever Green

          

"Meandering in a shady stream,

it can make a home for green growing things."

          

Peggy Wayburn

Craving: I Read White

                   

"They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow."

           

Bernard Malamud

Craving: Steel Magnolias

"Thou standest like a high-born forest queen
Among thy maidens clustering round so fair,--
I love to watch thy sculptured form unfolding,
And look into thy depths, to image there
A fairy cavern, and while thus beholding..."
                

Christopher Pearce Cranch

MySpot: Through Still Days

*Ph/ Manuela
                   

"The yellow glare (...) streamed out into the steamy,
vaporous air,
and threw a murky,
shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare."

                         

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

MySpot: Remember How the Stars Stole the Night Away

*Ph/ Manuela
            

"In the night time

when the world is at it’s rest.
You will find me.

In the place I know the best.
Dancin’ shoutin’.

Flying to the moon.
Don’t have to worry."

                               

Paul Kalkbrenner

Miscellaneous: One Stitch at a Time

"Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket."

               

Charles Simic 

Too Many People Grow Up

"Children's games are hardly games."

Montaigne - Essays

Like Those of Castile...

"A black cat among roses (...)
The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume..."

Amy Lowell

Miscellaneous: The Architecture of Red

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

John Ruskin

Like Bells and Lights and Tinsel

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..."

Clement Clarke Moore