portrait of mary

i love this photograph i took of mary.
she loves to be with nature and it is
in being with her that i have experienced
camping, hiking and love of photographing
mother earth. i also talk to birds because
of her :)



“One of the most wonderful things in nature
is a glance of the eye;it transcends speech;
it is the bodily symbol of identity”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

what makes me speechless.......a sky full of
fluffy clouds, a sky full of dazzling stars in
mexico, awaiting a luminious sunset by the
lake and admiring it's parting gift of beautiful
colors.

What in nature makes you speechless?

the important novel and I

Poem by George Bilgere

Once Again I Fail to Read an Important Novel

Instead, we sit together beside the fountain,
the important novel and I.

We are having coffee together
in that quiet first hour of the morning,
respecting each other's silences
in the shadow of an important old building
in this small but significant European city.

All the characters can relax.
I'm giving them the day off.
For once they can forget about their problems—
desire, betrayal, the fatal denouement—
and just sit peacefully beside me.

In the afternoon,
at lunch near the cathedral,
and in the evening, after my lonely,
historical walk along the promenade,

the men and women, the children
and even the dogs
in the important, complicated novel
have nothing to fear from me.

We will sit quietly at the table
with a glass of cool red wine
and listen to the pigeons
questioning each other in the ancient corridors.