A walk in the fog

"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world.  Great achievements are accomplished in a warm, blessed fog."  Joseph Conrad

Walking an old familiar street

A good friend lived on this street many years ago.  I had some time to kill so I walked here to see what I could find.

 

Community garden

I was walking in the city yesterday and spied this community garden in the downtown.   There was still much colour in it and it was obvious a great deal of love and care went into this small patch of ground.  The small touches made for excellent photo ops.

"Keep love in your heart.  A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

Oscar Wilde 

More leaves

I know I said "no more leaves", but I just can't help myself.  This year, the colours of the autumn leaves seem to be particularly brilliant.  Perhaps it's because of all the rain we've had.  I'll just enjoy them for as long as I can.

November sky is chill and drear

November's leaf is red and sear.

                     Sir Walter Scott

A new lens!

I just purchased a new lens! 
I am not a gear-head at all.  I still have my first camera and it is my only camera (besides a point-and-shoot that I purchased for $3.00 at the local thrift store).  I've just purchased a new lens to replace the kit lens that came with the camera four years ago.  I'm trying to remember Percy W. Harris' words "Skill in photography is acquired by practise and not by purchase", but oh - it is fun to be outdoors with my new toy!  These are a few shots from my first walk with it around my yard.

Looking down

Looking down is usually considered a bad thing.  Charlie Chaplin said, "You'll never find a rainbow looking down".  That's true, but I find a really interesting world down there, under my feet.

 

Into the mist

"For how can we know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without the cold to give it sweetness?"

John Steinbeck

 

 

 

Walking in Fall

A restful spot

Is not this a true autumn day?  Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonize.  The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallide hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit."

George Eliot

Mushroom or Toadstool?

I don't know whether this was a mushroom or toadstool, but it looked like a fried egg to me.