by susan preston | Sep 15, 2021 | Photo of the Day, Trees
Crabapple Cluster The sweetest apples are eaten first. ―Matshona Dhliwayo Photo Credits: Crabapple Cluster, by Susan J. Preston, Albuquerque Botanic Garden © 2021, all rights reserved Please leave comments below... Crabapple Cluster Crabapple...
by susan preston | Sep 14, 2021 | Photo of the Day, Trees
Crabapples in Albuquerque Human are tuned for relationship. the eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils–all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. ― David Abram Photo Credits: Crabapples in Albuquerque, by Susan J. Preston,...
by susan preston | Sep 13, 2021 | Photo of the Day, Trees
Crabapple Bough Let the apple ripen on the branch beyond your need to take it down. Let the coolness of autumn and the breathing, blowing wind test its adherence to endurance, let the others fall. Wait longer than you would, go against yourself, find the...
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...