Category: Beauty

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. – Yoshida Kenko

December 9, 2013

As if to dress the winter marsh, cattails turn their cigar heads into a white and fluffy mass of seeds, ready to drift off in the wind and build new colonies for spring. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013

“Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends.”

December 2, 2013

Credited with the creation of man from clay, a bronze gilded Promethius guards holiday visitors and skaters at New York City’s Rockefeller Center plaza. The fire of 40,000+ shining holiday tree lights, strung on five miles of wire, reinforces this fabled god’s title as the giver of fire to humanity. * * * This year’s tree, a … More “Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends.”