3-30-07-- Friday
taken last night at a concert
by dervish, a celtic band from ireland.
"flowers and plants are silent presences:
they nourish every sense except the ear."
-- may sarton
a few more photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/16290773-29-07-- Thursday
"hitch your wagon to a star."
-- emerson
"... every advance by humanity towards the ultimate goal, has been led by some valiant dreamer whose eyes were fixed upon the dawn..."
-- j.e. dinger
more spring flowers here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/13364293-25-07-- Sunday
solas, a celtic band, at the carrboro artscenter
flying fingers on the flute
"dance... the body can fly without wings.
it can sing without voice.
the dance is strong magic.
the dance is life."
-- pearl primus, dancer
more photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1629077
http://www.solasmusic.com/
http://www.artscenterlive.org/index.php?a=Music&b=Upcoming%203-19-07-- Monday
in spite of a cold morning, by afternoon, it was a lovely day for a walk in the unc-ch arboretum. this while taking photos of the flowering groundcover!
"walking is man's best medicine."
-- hippocrates
greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)
here's the link to flower photos:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/13364293-15-07-- Thursday
"... here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)..."
-- e. e. cummings
(bonne nuit a tous)3-11-07-- Sunday
backyard brunch
"I need to recover a rhythm in my heart that moves my body first and my mind second, that allows my soul to catch up with me.
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun-warmed rock in the center of a rushing river."
-- dawna markova
http://www.herondance.org3-4-07-- Sunday
unc-chapel hill beats duke by 14 points and students swarm to franklin street to celebrate in carolina blue!
"the most evident token and
apparent sign of true wisdom
is a constant and
unconstrained rejoicing."
michel de montaigne
more photos here: http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/13402413-3-07-- Saturday
a perfect day for playing outside!
"what was any art
but an effort
to make a sheath,
a mould,
in which to imprison
for a moment
the shining, elusive element
which is life itself."
-- willa cather
same couple a bit later on franklin street:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/13595282-27-07-- Tuesday
sunset on the beach at "isle of
palms" near charleston.
"patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. patience and faith. one should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea."
-- anne morrow lindbergh
charleston area beach photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/2520963#1326468052-26-07-- Monday
home in charleston's historic district-- on a cobblestone street.
"without words, without writing and without books,
there would be no history,
there could be no concept of humanity."
-- hermann hesse
more charleston photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/2520963#1324222522-25-07-- Sunday
another photo from my beach trip. this is in memory of my dad, who got a kick out of these big, ungainly, and incredibly graceful birds. he spent hours fishing on the ocean in a little boat he called "high hopes."
"hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul.
and sings the tune
without the words,
and never stops at all."
-- emily dickinson
more beach photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1761910
I will be in charleston for a few days on a work -related training program, and will hopefully have internet access.2-18-07-- Sunday
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house.
"Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?".
"Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that
it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not."