WINTER is COMING...

                                             "LISTEN...

...with faint dry sound like steps of passing ghosts,

                                 ...the leaves, frost-crisped, break from the trees

        ...and fall." -Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)

"Beyond the murky hill, the great sky darkens overhead...

                  ...and the great woods are shrill.

...the breeze from the embalmed land blows sudden towards the shore....

                             ...the night at Your command comes. 

...I will eat and sleep and will not question more."

-Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1994)

"From shadows shaken on the snow, I saw Orion in the east burn steadily as long ago.

                                           ...from windows in my father's house, 

...dreaming my dreams on  winter nights.

Years go, dreams go, the world's heart breaks beneath its wars

                                                                    ...All things are changed...

          ...save in the east...


                                                     

...the faithful beauty of the stars." -Sara Teasdale(1884-1933) 

("WINTER STARS",excerpts, written in 1920 after WW1)

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.

SEA and SKY...

"I, the Lord of sea and sky..."- Daniel L. Schutte

"The sea is everything....an immense desert....where life stirs on all sides.."- Jules Verne

"I , who made the stars of night...." - Daniel L. Schutte

"The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us..."

                                                                                                                                    -Emerson

"I will make their darkness bright..."- Daniel L. Schutte

"The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves..." 

-Robert Wyland

"I, the Lord of snow and rain...."- Daniel L. Schutte

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky..." -Rumi

"Green calm below, blue quietness above..." -John Greenleaf Whittier

"I have wept for love of them...."- Daniel L. Schutte

"My soul is longing for the secret of the sea..." -Longfellow

"All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by..."

-John Masefield

"I, the Lord of wind and flame..."- Daniel L. Schutte

     "The sky dreams of stars,,," - Mihai Eminescu

'To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?" -Walt Whitman

              "A sky full of silent suns..." -Jean Paul

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

quote excerpts by Daniel L. Schutte (1947-) from "I, the Lord of Sea and Sky"

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C. Canada

 

OCEAN...

 “The waves of the sea, help me get back to me…” -Jill Davis

I remember those days, when  the ocean crackled over our feet,

pulling us down, down, down.....

Building castles along the shore.

Telling magical stories of imaginary sea monsters.....

..........splashing thru warm tide pools

Wondering where the mermaids were hiding.

Did they use sea urchins to comb their seaweed hair?

We sang silly  songs, standing on the edge of the abyss

Lapping at our bare feet.

Flinging froth at seagulls  flying languidly into the wind.

We breathed salt from the sea. Dreamed our childish dreams.

Skipped rocks. Chased surf bubbles along the sand.

Then collapsed  in a heap of kelp  

To watch the little  Sandpipers strut their stuff.

I remember sitting  quietly  on wind worn logs.

All those things...... 

when the sea calls my name again

And lo and behold, we’re children once more,

Wading in the water

Listening to it crackle like fire over the stones......

Photographs 2025  

  Tyee Spit, Discovery Passage, Quadra Island, Campbell River, B,C,