B&W...

... back then the sky seemed so vast.

And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.”

The bench

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

Clematis

“If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon ... The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.”

“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

“Look to the lilies how they grow!”

Empty Docks.

“Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.”

What a strange thing!

to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

Kobayashi Issa,

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

“Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere”

“I don't feed the birds because they need me; I feed the birds because I need them.”