I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. — Tori Amos. Personally, I could do without the cold toes, as I think this Great Blue Heron would agree. But I do love the feeling of being alive. * * * Photo credit, Mary O’Connor © 2007
True to its name, this winterberry holly heralds the pending change of season with clusters of red berries. Commonly called black alder, its leaves turn black before dropping off. Its berries, however, brighten the landscape well into the winter months—assuming, that is, that the birds don’t get to them first. * * * Photo by Mary … More Black is a misnomer
but in the the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. – Junichiro Tanizaki Watch the colors shift and change with your own miniature, but emblematically powerful, sweet spot. Each hand cut, fashioned, and fired necklace pendant was created through a process that combines the ancient technology of glass fusion … More Find beauty not only in the thing itself…
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Using forces of wind, rain, sun and decay, Mother Nature signed this place as sacred. * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2013
when at the same time it’s so slow and sweet and everlasting. ― Graham Swift. A trip back in both time and seasonal color, an autumn ride on the Essex Steam Train brings the rush of pure nostalgia. * * * Photo credit: Julie Carlson © 2013. Julie’s photos have appeared in Life Is Full of Sweet Spots – … More How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem…
Overnight, they fell, floating and curling their way through darkness, while I slept and spirits dozed, naked trees bent to the ground, the face of the earth covered its eyes, and the crickets came inside. * * * “Rusty Leaves,” from Dreams of a Wingless Child, by Mary O’Connor, Wheatmark Press, © 2007 Photo, Mary … More Rusty Leaves
Cosmetics industry magnate Helena Rubinstein once said that hard work keeps the wrinkles out of mind and spirit. This Zanzibar weaver of palm roof shingles for his Indian Ocean hut attests to the truth of these words. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
autumn blazes stoke the embers of a cooling sun in its pretense of warming the earth once more. * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2013
How full of light and color are their last days. ̶ John Burroughs # # # Arizona Impressionist artist Lois Griffel uses color and light in “Path through the Forest” to capture the legacy of Autumn’s world. (Image reprinted with permission of the artist in Life Is Full of Sweet Spots, by Mary O’Connor, © 2013.)
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