DK @ Daybreak. 4:38 to 5:32 am, June 20, 2021. 63° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
Sunday Morning
June 20, 2021 by 20 Comments
And then I feel the sun itself…
June 15, 2021 by 22 Comments
And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire —
clearly I’m not needed,
yet I feel myself turning
into something of inexplicable value.
— Mary Oliver, ”The Buddha’s Last Instruction,” from House of Light.
Notes:
- Poem via The Vale of Soul-Making
- Photo: DK @ Daybreak. Cove Island Park. June 11, 2021 @ 5:34 am.
Sunday Morning
June 13, 2021 by 18 Comments
Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call
June 1, 2021 by 17 Comments
Walking @ Daybreak. 365 days, in 7 1/2 minutes.
May 31, 2021 by 70 Comments
I took up photography as a hobby on May 5, 2020 as a reason to get out of the house during COVID. I was first inspired by a Canada Goose nesting along the roadside, and waiting for her younguns to hatch each time I passed in the mornings.
The morning routine started with short runs, with an iPhone in hand.
That migrated to long walks with a Canon Powershot in a fanny pack.
And then the runs, and the walks gave way to a car ride to the Park with a backpack filled with my gear.
This montage includes one photo at daybreak (or close to it) each morning.
365 consecutive mornings, like in a row.
16 years we’ve lived in this house, in this neighborhood, in this area, and I had no idea that such beauty was just outside my door.
So, here’s my show. 7 1/2 minutes of a photo a day for a year.
And here’s to all of you, cheering me on every morning.
Enjoy!
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
May 24, 2021 by 27 Comments
Photo by Andrew Mayes titled “Monday Morning Mood.” “I took this shot while photographing a group of Pied starlings perched in a tree at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve in South Africa. It perfectly sums up my mood on most Monday mornings :).”
Saturday Morning
May 22, 2021 by 23 Comments
Sometimes you are privileged with a glimpse of the other world, when the light shines up from the west (or the East) as the sun sets (or rises) and dazzles something wet. The world is just water and light, a slide show through which your spirit glides.
— Fanny Howe, The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life
Notes:
- Quote from Whiskey River. Thank you. (Quote edited by me to include “or East” and “or rises’)
- DK Photo @ Daybreak May 22, 2021. 5:48 a.m. Calf Pasture Beach, Norwalk, CT. More photos from this morning here.
i am alive, and by god i’m tired of being awakened, but unlived. i step outside.
May 16, 2021 by 25 Comments
Notes:
- Photos: DK @ Daybreak. 6:05 to 6:35 am, May 16, 2021. 52° F. Calf Pasture Beach, Norwalk, CT
- Post Title: Fariha Róisín, from “Self-Portraiture” in “How to Cure A Ghost” (via: Weltenwellen)
Sunday Morning
May 9, 2021 by 19 Comments
In the silence the soothing sights and sounds of the marsh, the waving grasses flecked with butterflies, the distant soughing of the sea, the trailing ribbons of birdsong and the calls of the geese and gulls, could come into focus. ‘It’s good to sit and watch this gentle world,’ L said. ‘We tire ourselves out so.’
— Rachel Cusk, Second Place: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 4, 2021)
DK Photo @ Daybreak. 4:52 to 5:34 am, May 3, 2021. 39° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
