The Stars

 "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

 THE STARS by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)  Lecturer, philosopher, Poet. Another one of my favourite writers.

 If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

 The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches.

 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design

 to give man, the perpetual presence of the sublime.

 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe...

 And adore, and Preserve for many generations

 The remembrance of the city of God which had been shown?

 But every night......

 come out these envoys of beauty,

 And light the universe

 With their admonishing smile......

 "Always do what you are afraid to do...." -Emerson

 Photographs 2019
                                                Supermoon Jan 19 1019

For the Love of Sky at Night

From one of my favourite poems: "Evening in Paradise"
by John Milton
"Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird..............
"With living sapphires; Herpeus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in cluded majesty, at length.....
"Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw......."