A little of this. A little of that.
“January cold and desolate;
February dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.”
~ Christina Rossetti
I came to a point where
I needed solitude and
just stop the machine
of thinking and enjoying
what they call living,
I just wanted to lie in
the grass and look at
the clouds.
Jack Kerouac
Gazing at the white, puffy clouds.
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“Mind is simply a combination of all the thoughts, of all the clouds. Mind has no independent nature of its own. When all the thoughts are gone and the sky is clean and clear, you will see that everything that you have paid so much attention to is nothing but emptiness. Your thoughts were all empty. They contained nothing, they were void. ” – Osho
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
– Michel de Montaigne
The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains;
The white clouds are of themselves white clouds.
Zenrin Kushu
Snow storms
are numerous
flakes falling
from the
clouds.
Photo of the dark and gray overcast sky, taken at 3:20 pm.
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“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”
Wendell Berry
Autumn is definitely here.
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Photo was taken on the 21st, well before the worst of the storm hit late last night. Constant heavy rain and windy as all hell. Gotta love New England weather.
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Took this photo a couple of days ago. In a few more days, the rest of the green leaves will be turning red, then it will be bare till next spring.
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When I see blue sky with a smattering of clouds, it makes me happy. This my fellow readers, is all I need. Don’t need religion, nor read the bible. Don’t need to be told how to enjoy life. I am just basically one happy man, that likes solitude, peace of mind, and quietness.
The coffee tastes so much better, when I’m in a Zen moment. It makes the day much easier to enjoy, and live life to the fullest.
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There are no two clouds that look the same.
Peaceful Zen summer sky.
The atmosphere at its best.
It makes people happy.
Time of photo: 5:48 PM.
The cloud gobbled up the sun.
Bye bye.
May another sun take your place.
If not, it was nice knowing you.
Most of the day was
cloudy, dull and humid.
It turned out to be
a nice evening
at 7:50 PM.
The air is awful. Humid and sticky as hell.
Time of photo: 7:40 PM.
I like it when the sun is partially hidden by the clouds. It makes the sky look beautiful.
Time of photo: 7:34 PM.
I love the mid-morning of the streaking, wispy clouds.
Time of photo: 9:36 AM.
The heat and humidity really sucked today. At 4:00 PM, the air was so damn stifling, it like sucked the air right of you. The photo above and below were taken at 6:14 PM. The rain, or what rain fell was a short welcome relief.
At 1:05 PM, it was hazy, cloudy and 87 F with a feel of 93. 30 C with a feel of 34. The breeze in the shade feels good.
Time of photo: 5:39 PM.
Time of photo: 3:23 PM.
Another photo from Sunday evening. A bit closer look at the work being done at the local Senior Center.
Time of photo: 8:19 PM.
Click on photo to enlarge.
Mid-day photo of billowing clouds, at 2:45 pm.
Gray sky, rain, and a temp of 48 F, 9 C.
Photo taken at 9:17 AM.
The rain had just ended, and the sky still had the gloomy look. Warm and muggy here.
Took this photo, using the B&W mode. Hint: I do love black & white.
It was 60 degrees at 4:28 pm. When I saw the colorful sky, I knew I had to take the photo of it.
In about 4 weeks, the sun will be setting at or around 4:10 pm.
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
— Jack Kerouac
Another warm day here in Massachusetts, which will be the last one. Colder air moving in for Sunday and Monday.
Here’s a couple of photos of the end of day’s sunset.
Here is another photo of the clouds from the early evening of July 24. You can also a contrail, from the plane that passed by earlier.
Took these two photos earlier this afternoon. Lots of clouds, and no haze at all.
This one is black and white. You can decide which you like.
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