Don’t miss today’s Daybreak photos at Cove Island Park. Here Comes the Sun here. Starry Starry Morning here.
Tag: twilight
T.G.I.F: Here Comes The Sun…
Here’s shot 1 at 6:10 a.m. in series of goose bump moments. More photos from this morning’s walk here.
“that is nothing but light — scalding, aortal light — in which we are washed and washed out of our bones” — Mary Oliver, from “White Owl Flies into And Out of the Field” in “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver” (Penguin Press, October 10, 2017)
Lightly Child, Lightly.
One thing is certain, and I have always known it — the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence,
— May Sarton, from At Seventy: A Journal
Notes:
- DK photo @ 6:13 am, January 10, 2024, Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. 51° F in January! More photos from yesterday morning’s walk here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
And then, there was snow.
1st snowfall of 2024. 33° F, wind gusts up to 20 mph. 7:15 to 7:45 pm. January 6, 2024. More photos from this evening’s walk at Cove Island Park here.
A wee bit of relief from the anxiety tied to “The End of Snow“
Bad Hair Day
Great Blue Heron @ Daybreak. 32° F feels like 24° F. 7:15 am., November 28, 2023. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning’s walk here.
Inspired by: “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.” — Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart (Harper, January 1, 1953) (via Make Believe Boutique)