Today’s was a wonderful morning! The blue sky was so clear and fresh that it seemed to resound! And the hot bright sunshine dazzled the eye as it fell on the fresh green trees and bushes and grass...
Today – A Cool windy rainy day – sunlit rainy day – sunlit rainy day sky & meadows chock-full of white dandelion seed heads –
I keep thinking of those boys and girls – and of the impermanent nature of their being – the time will come when they will vanish altogether
To be a strong courageous healthy spirit— delighting in the natural world, seeing it with the innocence of a child to whom each commonplace stone, blade of grass & sapling is a miracle. That is the secret of eternal youth, the secret that Beethoven had. Happy is the man who can go out into the fields & woods and hills, a free innocent being, unburdened by the world’s smartness & sophistication, its smug acceptance of fleshly indulgences, to whom life & nature are eternal mysteries.
Heaven is an inexplicable thing—It occurs seemingly without reason and at unexpected moments—Heaven inspired by feelings of virtuous living is a poverty-stricken substitute for the reality—The most “immoral” being may experience the sublime oftener than the morally correct mediocre mind—
The full beauty of the dandelion...is lost to the majority of people because of its infinite numbers.
They had warned the children that I was worse again- and Mart said that on the way over Tommy said “When grandpa sees me he’ll feels better – because he and I are buddies”
Walking over the rank new grass, the air filled with the rank odors of “steaming vegetation” and countless varieties of pollen and flower scent...
A cool grey morning – sunglow in dim east – orioles sporting in the green trees –
I never thought that I would reach the point where I would get nervous about selling too many pictures. Somehow it seems vaguely disturbing.