in earth and sky
no grain of dust
snow on the foothills
~Chirin
colorado
saturday morning with James Hillman
There is more in human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path…This what I must do, this is what I’ve got to have. This is who I am…
…the call may have been more like gentle pushings in the stream in which you drifted unknowingly…you sense that fate had a hand in it.*
cited: James Hillman, The Soul’s Code In Search of Character and Calling.
lens-artists: postcards
Postcards from my favorite places:
Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
Walden, Colorado – Jackson County
Walden, Colorado – Jackson County
Cameron Peak, Colorado
Anvica’s Gallery is this week’s lens-artists host who has invited photographers to share images of favorite places. The images above were edited within Nik’s Analog Efex Pro 2 to create aged postcards of Colorado landscapes.
lens-artists photo challenge: a glimpse into your world
This weeks lens-artists photo challenge is hosted by Sheetal who invites us to “show us the things you love that makes your world spin or things about your world that make you delirious with joy.”
An afternoon drive through Poudre Canyon for a lunch in Walden, Colorado. Or better yet, having lunch in Walden while on a camping trip through the Rocky Mountains.
The Poudre Canyon is a narrow verdant canyon, approximately 40 miles long, on the upper Cache la Poudre River in Larimer County, Colorado in the United States. The canyon is a glacier-formed valley through the foothills of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains northwest of Fort Collins.
watching the river
through a window of trees…
spring rain falls ~ Issa (cited: haikuguy.com)
Driving west through the canyon, one will be enticed to pull off the road to view the clouds traveling across Cameron Peak. Cameron Peak is within the Medicine Bow Mountains which are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend for 100-mile from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming.
a glimpse of moon
over my home village…
then clouds ~ Issa (cited: haikuguy.com)
A westerly Sunday drive through Poudre Canyon will invite you to stop for lunch in the small town of Walden, Colorado. Walden is located in Jackson County, an amazing sub-alpine valley in Northern Colorado.
evening’s fall colors–
the rainbow in the valley
fades away ~ Issa (cited: haikuguy.com)
As of the 2010 census, the population of Walden was 1,394; the fourth least populated in the state of Colorado.
white clouds of mist
blow away…
the village’s mountain ~ Issa (cited: haikuguy.com)
The county contains the Never Summer Wilderness, the 71,000-acre Colorado State Forest, and the Arapapho National Wildlife Refuge.
this mountain rain
and the deer’s tears
must be mingling ~ Issa (cited: haikuguy.com)
During the summer of 2020, the Cameron Peak fire began about 25 miles east of Walden and 15 miles southwest of Red Feather Lakes near Cameron Pass. It is reported that this fire burnt 208,663 acres (326 sq mi.) through the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in Larimer and Jackson Counties and Rocky Mountain National Park. The fire became the largest wildfire in Colorado history.
the beauty within the mundane
Stay at Home Order … day 18 plus 14 seclusion retreat days
Nikon D750 f/1.8 1/4000s 35mm 200 ISO
Northeastern Colorado’s mundane landscape that speaks of the transition of spring’s awakening from late winter’s fading is a time in which I find myself yearning for colors other than the various shades of browns, yellows, and blue skies.
Nikon D750 f/1.8 1/4000s 35mm 200 ISO
After reading Fletcher and Hewitt’s ebook (A Journey in Composition) I set out to explore if I could open myself to the beauty within this time through various compositional elements of photography: leading lines, repetition, points of interest, complementary colors, and vanishing points.
Nikon D750 f/1.8 1/4000s 35mm 200 ISO
Nikon D750 f/1.8 1/3200s 35mm 200 ISO
A Journey in Composition, an ebook written by photographers Christian Fletcher and Tony Hewitt, outlines their travel across the western United States. The ebook covers fundamental aspects of composition, including color and interpreted composition techniques while paying homage to the techniques of the old masters – Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.
cache la poudre river
the rivers have
an ancient darkness…
cuckoo
~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
change
Walden, Colorado is a small town hidden in a basin surrounded by the peaks of the Medicine Bow, Never Summer, Rabbit Ears and Park Mountain ranges. Landscape image submitted in response to Travel With Intent’s One Word Sunday challenge: change
summer II
a creative place…
“…I was hearing the forest grow!
Then a peaceful sensation came over me, a sense that I didn’t have to do anything, that nature was taking care of itself. …The forest grew itself in the same way that my body breathed. What are Earth’s natural systems, living systems, always up to? Growing and reproducing. The living world is a creative place, because living things are always creating. Humans are not separate from this creation… We are creating our lives, while all around us the world is a creative place. …when I sit and draw, I am expressing that same creative energy. I open and let the drawings emerge.
John F Simon, Drawing your own Path
early morning readings
…he also is as though covered by a mist, a cloud, a darkness that hides everything he does and hides everything that takes place within him.
Trans: Ira Progoff. The Cloud of Unknowing
And ‘when I speak of darkness’ the author of The Cloud of Unknowing says, it is ‘not the kind of darkness that is in your house at night when the candle is out.’ It is a darkness of a quite different kind. ‘I am referring he says, ‘to a lack of knowing. It is a lack of knowing that includes everything you do not know or else that you have forgotten, whatever is altogether dark for you because you do not see it with your spiritual eye. And for this reason It is not called a cloud of the air, but rather a cloud of unknowing that is between you and your God.'” (IV:18)
lens artists challenge: elements
…the four–earth, water, fire, and wind–are without characteristic, without entity, without self, without … principle.
D S Lopez, Jr, The Heart Sutra Explained
“The fire element is heat, warmth, and also the motivation that dives us; it also is our metabolism. …
“The earth element is all things that are solid, all the things we can touch…
“The water element is all the fluids in our body…
“The air element is the space in our body, also the air that enters and leaves our body, our breath…the movement the our body makes.”
Brother Phap Hai, nothing to it ten ways to be at home with yourself
Hop on over to Amy’s to join this week’s lens-artists challenge: elements
the rockies
a meditative journey 
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