8-12-06-- Saturday
heading to the mountains for a night of camping





"follow your desire as long as you live;
do not lessen the time of following desire,
for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit."

-- ptahhotpe 2350 B.C.

8-11-06-- Friday

"if you lose hope, somehow you lose
the vitality that keeps life moving,
you lose that courage to be,
that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
and so today I still have a dream."


-- martin luther king, jr
the trumpet of conscience

8-10-06-- Thursday

"summertime and the living is easy..."

8-9-06-- Wednesday
on the way to work, this caught my eye.

"the woods are lovely, dark and deep.
but I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep."

-- robert frost

8-8-06-- Tuesday
came across this mirror outdoors by a parking lot on my walk tonight.

"my lifetime listens to yours."

-- muriel rukeyser

8-7-06-- Monday


I said in my heart,
"I am sick of four walls and a ceiling.
I have need of the sky.
I have business with the grass."


-- richard hovey

8-6-06-- Sunday

"happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued,
is always beyond our grasp,
but which if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you."


-- nathaniel hawthorne

8-5-06-- Saturday
got to talking with this fellow this morning - our last morning on the beach. he agreed to let me take his picture with his 1 year old daughter.
he starts cajoling her to smile at the camera. I love her expression-
and just why should I smile at the camera?

"being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage."

-- lao-tzu

8-4-06-- Friday

"don't underestimate the value of
Doing Nothing, of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering."


-- pooh's little instruction book,
inspired by a. a. milne

8-3-06-- Thursday
took this photo on my walk of a fisherman by the pier--
in memory of my dad, who was an avid fisherman

"the past is a source of knowledge,
and the future is a source of hope.
love of the past implies faith in the future."

-- stephen ambrose




for more beach fotos:

http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1365065/1/85766848

8-2-06-- Wednesday

"every moment of one's existence one is growing into more
or retreating into less."


-- norman mailer

8-1-06-- Tuesday
"word association exercise: SKY
blue
cloud
air
wind
heaven
lofty
endless
expanse
high
floating
wet
misty
clear
bright
carolina"

amy

7-31-06-- Monday
"For the beauty of the earth
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise.

... For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth and friends above,
For all gentle thoughts and mild.

Lord of all, to Thee we raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise."

Folliot Pierpoint


more of today's photos below:

http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1365065/1

7-30-06-- Sunday with sun!
I watched this little boy work very hard to ride this board... look ma!

"success usually comes to those who are too busy
to be looking for it."

-- henry david thoreau

7-29-06-- Saturday
at the beach for a week of fun in the sun... rain!

wrightsville beach website: http://www.visitwrightsville.com

live beach camera link:

http://www.visitwrightsville.com/about-wrightsville/beach-pictures-cams.html

7-28-06-- Friday Chapel Hill Flower Lady. she has sold flowers on franklin street (the town's main street) from her garden for 50+ years. her beautiful posies are a favorite for all who pass by. “such gardens are not made by singing, ‘oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” -- rudyard kipling

7-27-06-- Thursday
in the throes of the dog days
(daze) of summer--
bailey boy nesting on the couch.

"a dog is the only thing on earth
that loves you more than
he loves himself."


-- josh billings

7-26-06-- Wednesday
I came upon this neglected and forgotten ball while walking today.


"the trick is growing up without growing old."

-- casey stengel

7-25-06-- Tuesday
scattered downpours all day left me feeling blue. this photo started as greyscale shadows of glass on wood. played with saturation to bring some rainbow colours :)



"your vision will become clear only when
you can look into your own heart. who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

-- carl gustav jung

7-24-06-- Monday

7-24-06-- Monday

"peace of mind produces right values,
right values produce right thoughts.
right thoughts produce right actions
and right actions produce work
which will be a material reflection
for others to see of the serenity
at the center of it all."

-- robert pirsig

7-23-06-- Sunday “one can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” -- helen keller

7-22-06-- Saturday
warrren wilson college wild cat


"women and cats will do as they please,
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

-- robert heinlein

7-21-06-- Friday
another sunflower! must be the mountain air, they are sooo beautiful here in black mtn, nc



"when you part from your friend, you grieve not;
for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."

kahlil gibran


for photos of celtic week, go to
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/Events/210544

7-20-06-- Thursday

"to open our own heart like a Buddha,
we must embrace the ten thousand joys
and the ten thousand sorrows."

jack kornfield

7-19-06-- Wednesday
student at warren wilson college clearing a hill

"and to love life through labour is to be intimate
with life's most inmost secret... and when you work
with love you bind yourself to yourself, and one to another..."

-- kahlil gibran

7-18-06-- Tuesday

"I should never have made my success in life
if I had not bestowed upon the least thing
I have ever undertaken the same attention
and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest."

-- charles dickens

7-17-06-- Monday


"the tree which moves some to tears of joy
is in the eyes of others a green thing which stands in the way. as a man is, so he sees."

-- blake

7-16-06-- Sunday
I will be at the swannanoa gathering,a music camp held at warren wilson college, in black mountain, nc... for the "celtic week."

http://www.swangathering.org/


I may not be posting daily thru the week. will be catching photos and post as I can...

7-15-06-- Saturday
I came across this fellow in the road this morning. he let me get my camera in his face.

"when you come to the edge of all the light
you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen to you:
either there will be something solid for you
to stand on, or, you will be taught how to fly."

-- patrick overton





after this photo shoot, I moved him to the path- here he is:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1359528

7-14-06-- Friday
I have been wanting to capture the beauty of our neighbor's pool. they very generously open it to us for swimming :)


"live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air..."

-- ralph waldo emerson

7-13-06-- Thursday
... and here's the bambino! early morning foraging...

"people often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'
and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty
is realizing that you are the beholder.

this empowers us to find beauty in places where others
have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

-- salma hayek

7-12-06-- Wednesday
dear deer dining on birdseed in our front yard.

"give us grace and strength to forbear and to perservere...
give us courage...
and the quiet mind..."

--robert louis stevenson

7-11-06-- Tuesday- for two very dear friends, independent and
free-spirited souls, contemplating marriage...

"... ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
but let there be spaces in your togetherness,
and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

love one another, but make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls...

and stand together yet not too near together:
for the pillars of the temple stand apart,
and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."

-- kahil gibran, the prophet, excerpt on marriage

7-10-06-- Monday

"my heart is resilient and expansive. I cherish all that I have and welcome my ability to care still further for all that yet is offered me."

__ julia cameron

7-9-06-- Sunday

"behold the plant! it is the butterfly
held prisoner by the earth.

behold the butterfly! it is the plant
by the whole cosmos freed."

-- rudolf steiner

7-8-06-- Saturday
I didn't see the ladybug until I got home and looked more closely at the photo.

A few more shots of this progression are in my flowers gallery.

http://butterflites.smugmug.com/Flowers



"the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

-- marcel proust

7-7-06-- Friday


"faith is taking the first step even when you don't see
the whole staircase."


--martin luther king, jr.

7-6-06-- Thursday

"the sun gives light
to the plants,
for the sun
does love the plants.
so one man gives soul-light
to others
when he loves them."

-- rudolf steiner
prayers for mothers and children

7-5-06-- Wednesday “in the end, only kindness matters.” -- jewel

7-4-06-- Tuesday
cane creek cloggers at the fourth of july celebration
at carrboro town hall.

for the collection of event photos, go to

http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1629069

7-3-06-- Monday

"...let the beauty we love be what we do.
there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

-- rumi

7-2-06-- Sunday a mother's protective hold “all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” -- j.r. lowell

7-1-06-- Saturday

"the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. don't go back to sleep. you must ask for what you really want. don't go back to sleep.
people are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. the door is round and open. don't go back to sleep."

-- rumi

this was taken at the eno river festival.

to see more of my photos of this event, go to

http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1622180