Beautiful blue skies and sunny Monday where I spent my day off.

The river doesn't freeze where there are rapids.


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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it,
the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

~ Andrew Wyeth


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Back on EST - this evening's sky was a marvel.


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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favour, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.  ~ Baudelaire


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O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.


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Last Friday night we were up at the lake at the trailer. It was a gorgeous night and sitting by the fire I noticed the moon on high and that it was full. I took my flashlight and camera and took a walk down to the open or beach area. It was deserted and so I climbed up on the lifeguard's chair and just sat there and admired the night sky. The ( Read more... )

In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.

- John Sawhill, past president of the Nature Conservancy


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In many rural areas, one can see antique farming equipment as in the photo below. They are presently used as lawn decorations all too often. When I see them I try to photograph them and as I do I think of the many persons who used these pieces and worked the land in all kinds of weather to feed their families and their stock. I try to imagine ( Read more... )

With all the mist about if it wasn't for bits of colour these pictures could almost pass for B&W.

Bailer


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