Blues, Purples and Mary Oliver

BLUES, PURPLES

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I took a walk around the family acreage to observe the fall scenery and keep seeing dusky blues and swarthy plum purples.

I guess October colors aren't always gold and orange.

Marty is our mystery bird. A classic peacock, he showed up on our property one day with clipped wings and pulled feathers. Now he roosts with the barred-rock chickens and the white down-feathered ducks.
His plumage feathers are growing back slowly, but it's still an interesting lesson present.
Beauty is never gone forever.
It fact, it never ceases to come back 'round.

MARY OLIVER

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"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." 
                                        Mary Oliver

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Gilead

Perhaps You've Been Wondering

If I've just disappeared into thin air for a little while. 
Well, the truth is: I had. (Colorado will do that to you.)


“Vision sometimes comes in a memory.” says Marilynne Robinson in her book Gilead

I'm hoping to pass on the vision from the mountain memories I've made this summer in the upcoming posts.

I still love photography. 

[In the bible Gilead means hill of testimony or mound of witness.]

Stone Arch Bridge Portraits | Laura Englund

Summer time has come, and is almost on it's way out.... here are a few fun shots from a session in Minneapolis earlier this summer.