View From The Truck Window

Monday, March 23, 2020

Peace And Quiet

This is Johnson's Sauk Trail Park in Illinois. Such a beautiful place!

Parks are good for the refreshment of soul and body at any time, but now that the world is coping with the Covid-19 virus, it's recommended to stay away from people and get outdoors. Perfect, right?

But our governor, in his infinite wisdom, has closed all state parks, so now there is a shiny new padlocked gate across the entrance. Apparently chains and padlocks are good for what ails us here in Illinois.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Bright Eyes

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Couch Coyote

My human has been known to refer to me as a couch coyote. (It sounds better if you pronounce it as the three-syllable Western ki-'O-tee, rather than the Midwestern 'KI-oat. But still.) I think I'm going to have to nip that in the bud, with emphasis on "nip".

As soon as I'm done with my nap.

Sheltered

I. MUST. DANCE.

Opinionated

Monday, March 2, 2020

Preaching to the Choir

"Wait! Wait! Where are you going?"

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Quotes I Like

"To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. . . . The images we make are often ahead of our understanding, but to say "yes" to a subject is also to have recognized, however dimly, a part of oneself; to live with that image, to accept its significance is perhaps to grow in understanding."

~ John Blakemore

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking -- and looking."

~ Brooks Atkinson

"To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share."

~ Jan Phillips

"Images unearthed are not merely random, they are metaphor. I am not creating something else. I am revealing who I am."

~ Catherine Moore

"Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator."

~ Unknown

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

~ Cesare Pavese

"Life is getting up an hour early to live an hour more."

~ Hal Borland

"The silence spoke loudly of silence,

and the rivers kept speaking,

of rivers, of boulders and air."

~ Jane Hirshfield

"Have you ever noticed how "What the hell" is always the right decision to make?"

~ Terry Johnson

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

~ Diane Arbus

"Photographers too often hear, "Your camera takes good pictures." Imagine telling an author, "Your computer writes such great books."

~ Sandra Juto

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

~ Jean Cocteau

"Earth's crammed with Heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -

The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning