6-26-07-- Tuesday
"again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. all the sounds dear ... were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails... little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory."
-- wynford vaughan-thomas6-21-07-- thursday
summer solstice: longest day of the year.
catching the last rays of the sun.
"then followed that beautiful season... summer...
filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
-- henry wadsworth longfellow6-8-07-- Friday barefeet preferred for romping on the lawn. found beside a picnic blanket, owners absent! "going barefoot is the gentlest way of walking and can symbolise a way of living — being authentic, vulnerable, sensitive to our surroundings. It's the feeling of enjoying warm sand beneath our toes, or carefully making our way over sharp rocks in the darkness. it's a way of living that has the lightest impact, removing the barrier between us and nature." -- adele coombs, "barefoot dreaming"
6-7-07-- Thursday
listened to music-on-the-lawn at Weaver Street Market by the Carolina Chocolate Drops! stayed late and experimented with night photography. (see second photo!) absolutely lovely summery-evening!
"this moment contains all moments."
-- c.s. lewis
carolina chocolate drop's website:
http://www.sankofastrings.com/ccd/nothin' like maple view ice cream after dark!
http://www.mapleviewfarm.com/
a few more photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/13650756-3-07-- Sunday
breakfast at our local diner- ye olde waffle shop on franklin street- established 1972
"sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-- lewis carroll, alice in wonderland
a few more photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1340241/1/1509861626-1-07-- Friday
self-portrait inside the UNC-CH Old Well water fountain!
"there is not a short life or a long life.
there is only the life that you have,
and the life you have is the life you are given,
the life you work with.
it has its own shape,
describes its own arc,
and is perfect."
-- greek saying5-22-07-- Tuesday
picnics on the lawn at weaver street market.
"a friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."
-- ralph waldo emerson
http://www.weaverstreetmarket.com/community/index.php5-20-07-- Sunday
watching the bunny!
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
the velveteen rabbit