FROM DUSK ....

"The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk..." -Dean Koontz

"Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that "I " exist....." - Dag Hammarskjold

                                "Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk..." -Stephen King

"All day, the colours had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains, possessed of ocean shadows  and depths.." -Kiran Desai

"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I listen to...." -John Sexton

"He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciousness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.."

                                                           - Christopher Paolini

"Change , like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk..." - William Arthur Ward

"And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east..." - John Steinbeck

"Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle..."- Beverley Nichols

"There is no dusk to be, there is no dawn that was, only there's now, and now, and the wind in the grass...." -Archibald MacLeish

"Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver..." - Tennyson

"Spring seems off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day..." - Kathleen Norris

"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow..." -Khalil Gibran

"It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold..." - Thomas Cole

"Out of the dusk a shadow, then a spark, out of the cloud a silence, out of the heart a rapture..." -John B. Tabb

"I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet...." -Tim Winston

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SOAR.....

"Up high in the sky, far and not near, not seen by your eye, nor hear by your ear..." -Linda Moffitt ( the New Cloud)

                                  "True transformation.." - Julia Hill

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

"Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.." 

                    -Aberjhani

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me'. Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky..." - Hafez

"God spreads the heavens above us like great wings...."-William Butler Yeats

"The sun takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.." -Ram Charan

"Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins...."

                                                                                         -J. Donnelly

                                  "Beauty causes the soul to grow wings.." -Plato

"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through..." 

                                                    -Edna St. Vincent Millay

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks..."

                      -J.R.R. Tolkien

          "Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly.." 

                                                                                                -Captain Sonja Tandon

"The song of thrush and blackbird, JOY that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free..." -John McLeod

"Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly....."

                                                                                              -Mary E. DeMuth

"Dripping rain like golden honey, and sweet earth flying from the thunder...." 

                                 - Jean Toomer

"Do not interrupt the flight of your soul...." -Soren Kierkegaard

"Be like the bird, who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wnigs....." - Victor Hugo

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MONOCHROME One....

"Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that colour never can....." -Jack Antonoff

Elk Falls

"Black and white are the colours of photography....." -Robert Frank

Stuart/Morgan

"I will do nothing lightly. When I feel, I will feel everything. When I love,  I will love everything..." -Evan Tanner

Dale/Morgan

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us..." -Samuel Smiles

Tyee Spit/Quadra Island

"Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on a golden cord..."- Wilferd Peterson

Big Cat little Cat

"Don't think small and expect to have a big life..." -Marianne Williamson

Marina

                                     "Be bold...." -Josei Toda

"Whatever you can dream you can do, or dream you can, begin it...."

                                               -W.H. Murray

Winter tree

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty..." -John Ruskin

Pier

                                 "Nature always wears the colours of the spirit..." -R. Waldo Emerson

Tyee

"I  thank You, God, for this most amazing day......" -e.e. Cummings

"Find something good in your life.....then watch how your life changes..." -Leon Brown

Hawk

          "We need silence to be able to touch souls..." -Mother Teresa

                       "Black and white is an illusion of what is real..." -Ruth Bernhard

                                                        "You are the only one of You..." - Mia Michaels

Winter Sky

"Nothing happens, unless first we dream... " -Carl Sandburg

Estuary

“When you photograph people in colour, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” – Ted Grant

"I feel like this is the beginning........" - Stevie Wonder

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart...." -Helen Keller

Little Mr. Pooh

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