Author: brenda

weekly photo challenge: inspiration

just being alive

I

and the poppy

~Issa*

poppy

poppy

Christie’s photo challenge: Inspiration is an invitation to ponder, “what is it that moves me?”

Nature inspires me to contemplate the meaning and purpose of life through her

  • beauty,
  • complexity – simplicity continuum
  • consistency
  • characteristics of vulnerability intermixed with aggression (did you know poppies have thorns?)
  • transience
  • interdependency
  • natural laws
  • photogenic features
  • haiku inspiration

prints available

*cited:
http://www.haikuguy.com

 

sl-week 4: weird hollidays

If I was on holiday…it would be a walking tour of Japan and one of the places on my list to visit is the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto. But, alas, I’m not on holiday…but one of the bike/walking pathways near my home offered a (somewhat) miniature bamboo grove….sorta weird, but beautiful.

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inspired by Sylvain Landry (who reports in on holliday)

monochrome madness: 2:21

Far away,

In a cleft between the crags

To be alone,

Careless of others’ eyes,

Sunk in thought-if only…

                                            ~The Monk Saigyo*

brendakofford_sunflower

Visit Leanne Coles’ Monochrome Madness gallery

*cited:

http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk