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July 11, 2006
Santa Ynez winery tour, cont'd
Posted by Mike Lief at July 11, 2006 12:47 AM
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Awesome. Gorgeous shot.
CLOUDS dream and disappear;
Waters dream in a rainbow and are gone;
Fire-dreams change with the sun
Or when a poppy closes;
But now is the time of year
For the dark earth, one by one,
To show her slower dreams. And nothing she has ever done
Has given more ease
To her perplexities
Than the dreaming of dreams like these:
Not irises,
Not any spear
Of lilies or cup of roses,
But these pale, purple images,
As if, from willows or from pepper trees,
Shadows were glimmering on Buddha's knees.
~ Witter Bynner
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~ Anais Nin
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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
~ William Carlos Williams
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
~ Lope de Vega
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Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when
we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture)
so that its blossoms (nature) make men
imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)?
It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.
~ Michael Pollan, Second Nature
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
~ John Lancaster Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that
is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower
garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's,
because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the
same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
~ Marcel Proust, "Splendours". Le Figaro, June 15, 1907
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In the hope of reaching the moon
men fail to see the flowers
that blossom at their feet.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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The Earth Laughs in Flowers
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted by: Vermont Neighbor at July 11, 2006 07:16 AM
Mike, if this is your work (or even if it's borrowed), it's a super photo. (If yours, any details on how it was taken, and with what camera?)
Posted by: jng at July 12, 2006 08:18 PM
Thanks for the compliment! I took the photo a couple of weekends ago, and am quite happy with the results, especially given that I was using a new camera.
You can see a couple more photos taken with it, as well as my thoughts on the camera, here.
Posted by: Mike Lief at July 12, 2006 09:04 PM