11-13-07-- Tuesday
I have driven past this farmhouse on my way to work for the last (gosh!) 14 years!! And, every fall, these trees put on the most amazing show of fall colors...
"I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
-- abraham lincoln
11-12-07-- Monday
low-rider
“the harder I work the luckier I get.”
-- samuel goldwyn
11-11-07-- Sunday
carrboro art gallery at night
"a pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."
-- antoine de saint-exupery
11-10-07-- Saturday orange county artists guild studio tour- textile collage artist elaine o'neil chats with visitors in her studio. to see the gallery of tour photos, click here
11-9-07-- Friday
"to educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."
-- albert schweitzer
11-8-07-- Thursday
sunset on campus
"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. so I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."
-- nathaniel hawthorne
11-7-07-- Wednesday
"all is flux; nothing stays still."
-- heraclitus
11-6-07-- Tuesday
a fall picnic on the quad
"who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
-- anne frank
11-5-07-- Monday
carpenters work on the roof of a middle school that will open fall 2008.
"opportunity is missed by most
because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work."
-- thomas alva edison
11-4-07-- Sunday
"the glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."
-- ralph waldo emerson (adapted)
11-3-07-- Saturday
game day and UNC won!
"how far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant
of the weak and strong. because someday in life you will have been all of these."
-- george washington carver
11-2-07-- Friday
"in necessary things, unity;
in disputed things, liberty;
in all things, charity."
--richard baxter
11-1-07-- Thursday
found a patch of flowers still in bloom!
"may our heart's garden of awakening
bloom with hundreds of flowers."
-- thich nhat hanh
10-31-07-- Wednesday
"trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
-- rabindranath tagore
10-30-07-- Tuesday "joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water." -- albert schweitzer to see photos from Smoky Mountains click here
10-29-07-- Monday
more fun with the fish-eye lense at night!
"we must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
henry david thoreau
10-28-07-- Sunday
blue ridge mountains (they really are blue~!)
-- "the happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship."
-- ralph waldo emerson
10-27-07-- Saturday
am wishing time would just stand still! having a grand time in the mountains!
"time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. it reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again."
Captain Jean-Luc Picard- from the movie,
"Star Trek: Generations"
10-26-07-- Friday
great smokey mountains national park
"climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. the winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
-- john muir
10-25-07-- Thursday
heading out of town.
may or may not have internet access.
will catch up on my return Sunday.
"autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
-- albert camus
10-24-07-- Wednesday hay-- worth its weight in gold. farmers are buying hay from out of state due to the drought-- and paying a hefty price. last year, this field was covered with bales- this year, one. I have a gallery of past years' hay : click here "I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace." The Dalai Lama
10-23-07-- Tuesday more experimentation with motion blur- this time in the daylight. here the cyclist is in focus with building in a blur from panning with the camera. and here the building is in focus and the slow shutter picks up the motion blur of the cyclist. "knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial." -- sophocles
10-22-07-- Monday
elmo's-- my favorite diner in town-they serve breakfast all day long and have had absolutely the best fruit cobbler all summer!!
here I'm playing with zooming out with slow shutter speed- static sign is below.
"people who like this sort of thing
will find this the sort of thing they like."
-- abraham lincoln, in a book review
10-21-07-- Sunday
north carolina state fair gallery is up!
"look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time."
-- betty smith, a tree grows in brooklyn
here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/3687083
10-20-07-- Saturday
artist emily weinstein - http://www.WeinsteinArt.com- and the painting she painted during the bolin creek festival to be auctioned to raise money to preserve bolin creek- http://bolincreek.org
"there are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
-- pablo picasso
emily's new book release- "saving magic places"
http://www.weinsteinart.com/magicplaces.html
10-19-07-- Friday
"the sun hides its memories in autumn leaves for all to see."
-- steve
10-18-07-- Thursday
"one misty moisty morning
when cloudy was the weather..."
-- mother goose rhyme
10-17-07-- Wednesday
"great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
-- book of reflections
10-16-07-- Tuesday
wonderful warmish weather!
"art is not to be found by touring to egypt, china, or peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it."
-- ralph waldo emerson
10-15-07-- Monday
baileyboy waiting for his walk.
"adopt the pace of nature:
her secret is patience."
-- ralph waldo emerson
10-14-07-- Sunday
mural on the side of a building of musicians is reflected in the window of a vacant building- along with me!
chapel hill artist, michael brown, has painted 20+ large murals on the sides of buildings over the past 20+ years. the ch preservation society has recently launched a campaign to preserve the murals.
my photo gallery of the murals is here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/3647859#208338338
10-13-07-- Saturday
spent the day at the nc state fair. this is from the heritage village, where crafts folks demonstrate their skills.
“wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
-- confucius
10-12-07-- Friday
Finally got a star burst!! this is pretty much straight out of the camera.
"the windows of my soul I throw
wide open to the sun."
-- john greenleaf whittier
10-11-07-- Thursday
"there is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
-- saint thomas aquinas
10-10-07-- Wednesday
"to acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
-- marilyn vos savant
10-9-07-- Tuesday
"think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world."
-- grant petersen
10-8-07-- Monday
"he who would know the world,
seek first within his being's depths;
he who would truly know himself,
develop interest in the world."
-- rudolf steiner
10-7-07-- Sunday
photo taken yesterday-- UNC won! go heels!
"it's football season; anything can happen."
-- troy brown
10-6-07-- Saturday
"recognition: identification of a person as being known to one."
-- webster's dictionary
10-5-07-- Friday
RAIN! finally! in the midst of a significant drought, we had a few hours of steady rain.
"all was silent as before -
all silent save the dripping rain."
-- henry wadsworth longfellow
10-4-07-- Thursday
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
-- ralph waldo emerson
10-3-07-- Wednesday
maybe the last bee of the season. he was moving mighty slowly!
"the garden of love
is green without limit
and yields many fruits
other than sorrow and joy.
love is beyond either condition:
without spring, without autumn,
it is always fresh. "
-- rumi
10-2-07-- Tuesday
playing frisbee on the main unc quad
"I am writing in the garden. to write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."
-- frances hodgson burnett
photo gallery from carrboro's music festival is up here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1930092
10-1-07-- Monday
Thank you Linda!!!
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
-- Marcel Proust
9-30-07-- Sunday
carrboro music festival-- tenth anniversary!
all kinds of music... all over town... all for free!
"music is the literature of the heart;
it commences where speech ends."
-- alphonse de lamartine
9-29-07-- Saturday
I came upon this circle of chairs during a walk. the line of white light in the background is from a car passing by.
"to all, to each, a fair good night,
and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
-- sir walter scott