by susan preston | Jul 26, 2020 | Musings, Photo of the Day, This Life, Travel, Trees
The Enchanted Runway “I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at...
by susan preston | Feb 16, 2020 | Photo of the Day, Trees
The Winter of Listening What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. What disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need. What we hate in ourselves is what we cannot know in ourselves but what...
by susan preston | Oct 28, 2019 | Photo of the Day, Trees, Yosemite
Growth and Decay “Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design – do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.” – Morihei Ueshiba Photo...
by susan preston | Jul 18, 2019 | Flowers, Photo of the Day, This Life, Trees
Wishes and Promises “The blossoms of the apricot blow from the east to the west, and I have tried to keep them from falling.” – Ezra I took this image back in May when my apricot tree was flowering with wishes of the harvest to come. But unlike the previous two...
by susan preston | Jul 15, 2019 | Musings, Photo of the Day, This Life, Trees
Apricots in the Rain At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it. – Isabel...
by susan preston | Mar 7, 2019 | Birds, Bosque del Apache, Photo of the Day, Trees
Sunset Snow Geese Over Cottonwood If you visit the Bosque del Apache and linger a bit after sunset you will witness a stream of sandhill cranes and snow geese flying toward their nighttime roosting areas. What made this particular shot stand out to me is the quality...