Dreaming in Metaphors

2012-02-02T10:49:00.000Z

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs - Fran Lebowitz

Gower Peninsula, Swansea, Wales.

2012-01-21T12:39:00.006Z

"What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon that makes you want to get drunk ?" - Jack Handy

Pub in Llandaff, Cardiff

2012-01-13T11:59:00.002Z

A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most complete prayer - Gotthold Lessing

Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff

2012-01-06T16:01:00.002Z

Today a new sun rises for me: everything lives, everything is animated, everything invites me to cherish it - Anne De Lencios

2011-12-21T23:18:00.002Z

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year - Charles Dickens

2011-12-14T21:37:00.003Z

Sometimes just looking up and seeing the light is enough - Terri Guillemets

(Taken at Bristol Cathedral)

2011-12-02T13:13:00.001Z

When you possess light within, you see it externally - Anaïs Nin

( Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire)

2011-11-24T13:44:00.001Z

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water - Loren Eisley

2011-11-15T11:17:00.001Z

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

- William Butler Yeats

Biddulph Grange Gardens, Staffordshire

2011-11-02T13:33:00.002Z

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science - Einstein

(Taken outside my new garden)

2011-10-21T17:33:00.001+01:00

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree - Emily Bronte

2011-10-13T16:49:00.001+01:00

Caerleon, Wales

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~ John Donne

2011-10-04T12:32:00.002+01:00

Autumn colours in my new garden

"I saw old autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence"
-- Thomas Hood

2011-09-28T12:07:00.002+01:00

Staffordshire, England

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best - R. Turnbull

Special thanks to Anand for a very sweet gesture!

2011-09-22T09:36:00.003+01:00

Staffordshire, England

Dust's certainly all our fate, so why not

make it the happiest possible dust,

a detritus of blessedness?

- Michael Blumenthal

2011-09-05T18:03:00.001+01:00

San Vito, Italy

2011-08-29T12:26:00.004+01:00

From the neighbour's farm, Italy

2011-08-14T11:35:00.002+01:00

Mesagne, Italy

2011-08-09T17:22:00.003+01:00

Trullo, Puglia, Italy

"A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional dry stone hut with a conical roof. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers. Their golden age was the 19th century. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Puglia"

2011-08-03T14:31:00.002+01:00

Torre Guaceto, Puglia, Italy

2011-07-30T12:00:00.001+01:00

San Vito, Italy

2011-07-25T11:47:00.002+01:00

Door Knocker
Mesagne, Italy

2011-07-18T12:00:00.001+01:00

San Vito, Puglia, Italy

2011-07-12T15:17:00.004+01:00

Ostuni Cathedral, Italy

2011-06-28T09:00:00.005+01:00

Ostuni, Italy

2011-06-17T11:37:00.003+01:00

Ostuni, Italy

2011-06-13T11:28:00.009+01:00

San Vito, Italy

2011-06-02T12:11:00.003+01:00

San Vito, Italy

2011-05-17T14:09:00.003+01:00

Mesagne, Italy

2011-04-02T00:26:00.003+01:00

This is how I would die into the love I have for you.
As pieces of cloud dissolve into the sunlight
- Rumi

Off on a break. See you next month!

2011-03-23T12:42:00.001Z

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. And there is nothing more to it than that - StoryPeople

2011-03-18T08:32:00.001Z

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live - Flora Whittemore

2011-03-14T12:18:00.001Z

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days ~Bill Dana

2011-03-04T12:59:00.001Z

Art is pattern informed by sensibility - Herbert Read

2011-02-23T15:00:00.000Z

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up ~ Pearl S. Buck

2011-02-16T11:22:00.002Z

"Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better" - StoryPeople

2011-02-07T10:54:00.001Z

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera ~ Lewis Hine

2011-02-03T12:06:00.002Z

"I only promise the little things. The big things don't pay attention to what
I want anyhow" - StoryPeople

2011-01-29T12:45:00.001Z

My grandmother told me once that a city has enough windows for everybody. I still want to believe her - Story People

2011-01-09T13:13:00.001Z

She seemed to move everywhere dancing and music followed her like leaves on the wind

- Storypeople

2010-12-23T15:19:00.001Z

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
~ Harlan Miller

2010-12-17T00:03:00.001Z

Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

2010-12-09T12:15:00.001Z

2010-12-01T17:49:00.000Z

2010-11-22T13:57:00.001Z

2010-11-18T12:23:00.002Z

Winchester Cathedral, England

2010-11-15T12:41:00.000Z

2010-11-09T10:34:00.002Z

Just become quiet, still and solitary - and the world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet - Franz Kafka

2010-11-05T14:11:00.000Z

2010-10-29T15:39:00.000+01:00

2010-10-24T12:14:00.000+01:00

2010-10-18T12:49:00.000+01:00

2010-10-15T10:14:00.001+01:00

2010-10-13T12:00:00.001+01:00

2010-10-11T11:39:00.001+01:00

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so
pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October - Nathaniel Hawthorne

2010-10-07T10:55:00.005+01:00

Georgian House, Bristol

2010-10-04T17:58:00.004+01:00

2010-10-01T11:07:00.002+01:00

Georgian House, Bristol

2010-09-28T12:16:00.004+01:00

Georgian House, Bristol

2010-05-21T18:15:00.002+01:00

Illusion

2009-10-10T11:14:00.002+01:00

When l am very still, I can dispel the illusion of distance to touch your face ~ Frank Tornoe

I believe...

2009-10-05T11:50:00.002+01:00

... in everything that has not yet been said - Rainer Maria Rilke

How beautiful it is...

2009-09-28T23:48:00.003+01:00

... to do nothing and rest afterwards.

~ Spanish Proverb

I hope you will...

2009-08-17T08:20:00.002+01:00

.... go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Everybody needs...

2009-07-30T08:16:00.002+01:00

... beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

~ John Muir

From within...

2009-07-24T18:13:00.002+01:00

...or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is stillness...

2009-07-18T09:38:00.000+01:00

...that will save and transform the world ~ Eckhart Tolle

Nobody has ever...

2009-07-15T13:14:00.002+01:00

...measured, not even poets - how much the heart can hold.

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

A perfect summer day...

2009-07-13T12:10:00.001+01:00

...is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken ~ James Dent

I want to be with...

2009-07-10T09:33:00.001+01:00

...those who know secret things or else alone ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Still Waters

2009-07-02T21:19:00.001+01:00

Cardiff Bay

Deep Summer is...

2009-06-21T09:28:00.003+01:00

...when laziness finds respectability ~ Sam Keen

The Red Lodge {5}

2009-06-05T09:38:00.003+01:00

The Red Lodge {4}

2009-06-02T09:23:00.001+01:00

The Red Lodge {3}

2009-05-28T08:53:00.001+01:00

The Red Lodge {2}

2009-05-26T12:01:00.000+01:00

The Red Lodge

2009-05-22T22:31:00.002+01:00

"The Red Lodge is a historic building in Bristol. It was built in 1590 and was subsequently added to in Georgian times. It was altered around 1730, and restored in the early 20th century. It has had several uses in its past, including the country's first girls' reform school. This was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, who bought the Red Lodge in 1854"

I seldom....

2009-05-18T12:45:00.002+01:00

...end up where I wanted to go but almost always end up where I need to be ~ Douglas Adams

Sincere apologies for the infrequent posts. Things were really hectic at the university. Hope to post regularly from this week.
Thank you so much for visiting! :-)

There are some days...

2009-05-04T07:04:00.001+01:00

...when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

~ Salvador Dali

The best thing...

2009-04-25T09:34:00.002+01:00

...one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

( Taken in my room. I so love this pink hurricane lamp!)

Each day...

2009-04-21T10:04:00.002+01:00

...comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

~ Ruth Ann Schabacker

Art is...

2009-04-16T10:04:00.002+01:00

...the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding ~ Mark Chagall

Soft Focus is...

2009-04-14T14:36:00.005+01:00

...an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us ~ Peter Kline

Easter Blessings

2009-04-11T11:50:00.006+01:00

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.

~ St. Augustine

Bloom

2009-04-08T12:03:00.003+01:00

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life ~ Brian Andreas

Bristol {17}

2009-04-04T10:48:00.003+01:00

"God speaks to each of us

as He makes us,

then walks with us silently

out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond

your recall.

Go the limits ofyour longing.

Bristol {5}

2009-03-12T09:47:00.003Z

St.Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

Bristol {4}

2009-03-11T08:19:00.002Z

St.Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

Bristol {3}

2009-03-08T20:56:00.002Z

St.Mary Redcliffe, Bristol