Mt. WASHINGTON RANGE MAR 17, 2025

"Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek..." 

                                                                            -John Muir

"What we get from this adventure is sheer joy...." -George Leigh Mallory

"Happiness is like the mountain summit.  It is sometimes hidden by  clouds, but we know it is there.." - Helen Keller

"I gave my heart to the mountains...."- Wallace Stegnor

"When the sun is shining, I can do anything. No mountain is too high. No trouble too difficult to overcome..." -Wilma Rudolph

Mount Washington Range from  our house on the hill.......

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.." -Robert Service

"The water which rises in the mountains, is the blood that keeps the mountain in life..." - Leonardo da Vinci

"These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent. Silent, so that our weak praise should be given God's attention..." - Donald Miller

"Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea..." -Shakespeare

"Range after range of mountains. Year after year. I am still in love with them...." -Gary Snyder

"Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love, lifting the sky of the soul......spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven..." - Jessica Powers

                       "A mountain ..." -Walter Bonatti

                                          "And the wilderness of it all.. " -Deny King

"One may walk over the highest mountain, one step at a time..." 

                                                                                                                 - John Wanamaker

"So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more..." -Oliver Goldsmith

"This faith can move mountains...." -Norman Vincent Peale

"Let the wind course over us till we become beautiful..." -Mian Mian

 Photographs 2025  Vancouver Island ranges,Mt Washington Range,  B.C.as seen from Campbell River, B.C.

BLOOD MOON MARCHING

• "The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come." - Amos 8:9

"We are in the days of miracles and wonders that will eventually eclipse those of any other time...." -Rick Joyner

Blood Moon Lunar eclipse.  Before the clouds got in the way, here is what I saw. I thought I'd missed it.  But no, the lunar eclipse, very different from a  solar eclipse I have learned, was HUGE, Orange, smoky and bright like a dozen suns, over Campbell River, B.C. Canada....it was amazing.

"Oh dark, dark,dark, amid the blaze....." - John Milton

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape  as its shadows reveals, for its eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle...." - Copernicus

"Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour, through which the world is now passing..." -Martin Buber

"During the eclipse, the world holds its breath............

                 .....reminding us of being present in the moment..." 

                                                                                                               - Maya Thomson

“The eclipse is a cosmic dance between the sun, the moon, and the Earth, reminding us of the beauty and harmony of the universe.”- Robert Louis Stevenson

                                         "Stay wild, moon child..." -Riita Klint

"After the eclipse, the world will be more beautiful than ever..." 

                                                                                                                                        -unknown

                   "The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and  awesome day of the Lord comes.." -Acts 2:20

 

"The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen..." -Shannon L. Alder       

 "For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not  shed its light...." -Isaiah 13:10

"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul..." - Victor Hugo

Photographs 2025     March Lunar Blood Moon 

MARCH in CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ― Charles Dickens

"March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine...." -Lucy Maud Montgomery

" Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and may puts on its jacket and trousers..." -Henry David Thoreau

       So close .......................

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush....."

                                                                                                            - Doug Larson

          "You are reborn...................." -Juan Ramon Jiminez

"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world..." -Virgil A. Kraft

"With rushing winds and  gloomy skies, the dark and stubborn Winter dies...." - Bayard Taylor

“The March wind roars like a lion in the sky and makes us shiver as he passes by.” -Unknown

"A light exists in Spring.....when March is scarcely here..." 

                      - Emily Dickinson

"Life is March weather....savage and serene in one hour...." -R. W. Emerson

"If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched...." 

                                                   - Steve Irwin ( the Crocodile Hunter)

                     "The March winds are morning yawns..." -Lewis Grizzard

“Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don’t do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived.”

                                      - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, BC., Vancouver Island (Canada)