BLOOD MOON RISING...

"There are nights when the wolves are silent, and only the moon howls..." -George Carlin

"The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day....." -Alice Hoffman
 
                                             

"Don't tell me the moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass..."

                                                                                                              - Anton Chekhov

                                   "Stay wild, Moon child..." -Ritta Klint

"See a flame in a spark. See great things in little beginnings..." -Richard Sibbes

"God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest..." -Lynne Ewing

"Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe..." -Hanako Ishii

                                          
"The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror..."

                                                                    -Ani DiFranco 

             "Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly ..." -Khaled Hosseni           

"You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other..." -Richelle Mead

"Drag me to the moon, to catch a star an seize its brilliance, as I'm swept up in amorphous dust..." -Bradley Chicho

         "We ran as if to meet the moon..." -Robert Frost

"Don't tell me the sky is the limit, when there are footprints on the moon..." -Paul Brandt

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon..." -Jean Ingelow

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.

 

SMOKING HOT....

AUGUST( 1915) by Lizette Woodworth Reese ( 1856-1935) Poet  Laureate 1931. Wrote "A Handful of Lavender 1891" and   "A Wayside Lute 1909"                   

                                                
No wind. No bird.

The river flames like brass.

On either side, smitten as with a spell

Of silence, brood the fields.

In the deep grass, edging the dusty roads, lie as they fell

Handfuls of shriveled leaves from tree and bush.

But along the orchard fence and at the gate,

Thrusting their saffron torches through the hush,

Wild lilies blaze, and bees hum soon and late.

Rust coloured the tall straggling briar,

Not one Rose left.

The spider sets its loom up there

Close to the roots, and spins out in the sun

A silken web from twig to twig.

The air is full of hot rank scents.

Upon the hill drifts the moon's single cloud, white, glaring, still...

"There may be great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm itself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke...." -Vincent van Gogh

Photographs 2025 Smoky weather and skies over Mt. Washington range, Campbell River, B.C.

WE SHALL SEE THE SKY.....

"There is one spectacle grander than the sky. That is the interior of the soul..." - Victor Hugo

"I thank you, God, for this amazing day. for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of the sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes..." - e.e. cummings.

"Yellow, mellow, ripened days, sheltered in a golden coating..."

                                                          -Will Carleton

                                        "Let us dance in the sun..." - Susan Polis Schutz

"Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it's been spray painted by a graffiti artist..." - Mia Kirshner

Live in the sunshine.  Swim the sea. Drink the wild air..." 

                                                           - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once  you have tasted  the taste of sky, you will forever look up..." 

                       -Leonardo da Vinci

"Turn your face to the sun and let shadows fall behind  you.." - Maori Proverb

"Smell the sea and feel the sky.  Let your soul and spirit fly..."

                                                               - Van Morrison

“Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.”

                                                               — Kamand Kojouri

“It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should— lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.” --Paula McLean

                                             "The sun is but a morning star..." -Thoreau

"No one see what is before his feet, they scan the tracks of heaven..." -Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

“The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.” — S. Ajna

“The sun ignites the clouds below it as if they, and the water, itself, were on fire.”

                    -Anthony T. Hincks

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds..." - Chekov

 Photographs 2024