Thursday, January 1, 2015



"On every side the shadowy hills or the guessed, featureless sea 

extended beyond sight. But the hawk-flight of imagination followed 
them as they curved downward below the horizon. I perceived that I 
was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and 
with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that 
little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived 
in labor and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity 
of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, 
its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing
 hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of stars.


If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here 
and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man's 
blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant 
tremor, or part of a universal movement!"

from The Star Maker (1937)
Olaf Stapledon


Well I have been very lazy lately, I have not even finished 
editing my summer photos from the cabin.
I will try top be a little more active this year
although I am not much for resolutions. 

In the early morning I like to walk down the grid road 
that passes our lane to a small slough where the road curves. 
It was on one of these walks that I met this Waxwing. I am 
always amazed at how delicately coloured they are when 
I see one up  close. 







All the best in 2015

" Over there the pale snow lay in a different fashion
than on my roof, over there the beech forest and the
black pine trees were indescribably beautiful and 
reserved in a way I never saw in my neighborhood;
perhaps God Himself walked over there along the 
slopes, and whoever met Him there could touch Him
and speak to Him and look closely into His eyes."

from At Year's End 1904
              by Hermann Hesse