quotations

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
--Albert Camus

"That's what I like about traveling – you can sit down, maybe talk to someone interesting, see something beautiful, read a good book, and that's enough to qualify as a good day. You do that at home and everyone thinks you're a bum."
--Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, "Before Sunrise" screenplay

"Even as an old peasant woman recognizes her God in a painted image, in a childish medal, in a chaplet, so life would speak to us in its humblest language in order that we understand. The joy of living, I say, was summed up for me in the remembered sensation of that first burning and aromatic swallow, that mixture of milk and coffee and bread by which men hold communion with tranquil pastures, exotic plantations, and golden harvests, communion with the earth."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars (Terre des hommes)

these clouds.

purple sunrise.

the sky (again).

watching half the sky turn a golden orange as the sun slips out from behind the blanket of clouds just above the horizon.

...and then later, a bit more pink.

the sunlight, grass, trees, straw.

this sky.

the sunset from knight hall.

this puddle.

my favorite magnolia tree with buds in late november.

trees with red and yellow fall leaves not yet fallen and spring blossoms openings in late november.

trees that are green, yellow and red all at once, like a traffic light exploding outward.

sunset in Playa El Tunco, El Salvador.

this picture.

this chandelier of dried plants hanging in the middle of the restaurant where we ate brunch this morning.

plane tracks in this sky.

this cloud, the white flowers on campus, the smell and temperature of the air, and finally the moon like an intrepid yellow lamppost up in the sky.