Bluegrass Country

A beautiful afternoon around Lexington, Kentucky.

 

 

 

“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”~ Alice Walker

 

A Horse and His Fences, Lexington

 

Afternoon Repast

 

 

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a person” ~ Winston Churchill

 

 

Tranquility, Lexington, KY

 

Snack TIme

 

“Feeling down? Saddle up!” ~ Anonymous

 

A Fine Equine

 

White Horse in Field, Lexington, KY

 

 

“You know horses are smarter than people.  You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”  ~Will Rogers

 

 

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Lines and Shadows: Columbus, Indiana

Columbus, Indiana is known as an architectural mecca. There are over 70 buildings designed by noted international architects in this small city rated 6th in architecture in the country.

As we toured these modern buildings, I was enthralled by the light, lines and details of these architectural gems.

 

“Every great architect is- necessarily- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

 

 

Chapel, Eliel Saarinen

 

Corridor, Kevin Roche

 

 

“To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.” ~Robert A.M. Stern

 

 

Lobby of Cummins, Kevin Roche

 

Library Ceiling, I.M Pei

 

 

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”~ Eero Saarinen

 

 

Church Side Door, Eliel Saarinen

“Less is more”~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

 

 

Church Hallway, Eliel Saarinen

 

Corporate Arbor, Kevin Roche

 

 

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” Le Corbusier

 

 

Library Lights, I.M. Pei

 

 

Entryway, Kevin Roche

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”~ Frank Gehry

Flying the Coop 2013

 

 

We are taking off! 

 

We are excited to be driving out west over the next three weeks traveling the northern route across the United States.

Looking forward to sharing images of the landscapes, nature, cities and people we meet along the way. 

Stay tuned… 

 

 

Graceful Exit, SC

 

 

Until The Next Sunrise, Kiawah

Knock, Knock

 

“Be an opener of doors” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

Please click on an image to open the carousel of doors:

 

Ancient Door, Banteay Srey Temple, Cambodia

Old Door and Gas Lamp, New Orleans

Blue and Grey, New Orleans

Lost Door and Banyan, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Single House and Shadows, Charleston, SC

Keyhole, St. Michael’s, Charleston

Monastery Door, Vienna

Yellow Doors, La Boca Buenos Aires

Mansion Door and Reflection, Savannah, GA

Blue and Green #846, Buenos Aires

Door Detail, Argentina

Red Door, Luang Prebang, Laos

339, Buenos Aires

Brass, Buenos Aires

Church Door and Shadow, Charleston, SC

Through the Gate, Dubrovnik

 

“A small key opens big doors”~ Turkish Proverb

 

 

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Birds of a Feather – Wild Weekly Photo Challenge

 

 

“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird? ”

~ Edward Hersey Richards

 

 

Please click on an image for a larger carousel:

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill, Botswana

Falcon, South Carolina

Feeding Time, Kiawah Island, SC

Prothonotary Warbler, Magnolia Swamp, SC

Egret Fishing, South Carolina

Here’s Looking at You, South Carolina

Red-billed Oxpecker, Botswana

Lilac-breasted Roller, Botswana

Fall Migration, Kiawah Island, SC

Secretary Bird, South Africa

Curious Owl, Patagonia

Mama and Chick, South Carolina

Caracara, Patagonia

Two Headed Ostrich, Botswana

 

“Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise.”

~ The Beatles

 

 

Please click here for more beautiful Birds… 

I have submitted this post to “Let’s Be Wild” for the Weekly Photo Challenge : Birds of a Feather.

 

Petal Pusher

                                            

“I must have flowers, always, and always.” ~ Claude Monet

 

 

 

Please “pick a flower” to view in a larger carousel:

Dew and Dahlia, Mendocino

Beach Flower, Kiawah

Stunner in Mendocino

Fire Plant, Kiawah

Cactus Flower, Big Sur

Monet’s Moment

Wisteria in Morning, Magnolia Swamp, SC

Anticipation, Mendocino

Purple Iris, Magnolia Swamp, SC

Orange You Glad

White Iris, Charleston

Lily Reflections, Thailand

Purple Star, Big Sur

Orange at Dawn, Big Sur

 

“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.” ~Chinese Proverb

 

For more petals and blooms, please click here. 

Happy Earth Day!

 

 

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  ~Native American Proverb

 

 

Reflection, Maroon Bells, Aspen

 

 

Uluru and the Outback, Australia

 

The earth is what we all have in common. ~ Wendell Berry

 

 

Sunset, Okavanga Delta, Botswana

 

 

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”~Henry David Thoreau

 

 

Aspens, Colorado

 

 

Heading Home, Botswana

 

 

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein

 

 

 

Rocks at Toulomne Meadows, Yosemite

 

 

Sunset and Palms, South Carolina

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” ~ John Lubbock

 

 

Half Dome, Yosemite

 

 

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

 

Dawn and Palms, Bahamas

 

 

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~ John Muir

 

 

Nature’s Finest

Every Day is Earth Day.  

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Springtime Impressions

 

 

 

“Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

 

 

Tupelo Impressions

 

 

 

A good impression is lost so quickly. ~ Claude Monet

 

 

 

Leaves of Iris

 

 

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ~ Robin Williams

 

 

Azalea Burst

 

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.~ Henri Matisse

 

 

Swamp and Tupelos

 

 

 

The job of the impressionist painter is to say just enough without forcing the story on the viewer… detail kills imagination. ~ Colley Whisson

 

 

 

 

Cattails and Sunlight

 

 

The power of the suggestive is much greater than the statement of reality. ~ C.W. Mundy

 

 

 

 

Tupelos in Charcoal

 

 

 

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

 

 

 

 

Monday, Wash Day

 

“It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”~ Laurence J. Peter

 

 

 

Red, White and Blue in Dubrovnik

 

 

Out to Dry, San Francisco

 

Whites, Dubrovnik

 

 

This is the way we wash our clothes,
Wash our clothes,
Wash our clothes.
This is the way we wash our clothes,
So early Monday morning. ~Mulberry Bush Song

 

 

 

Laundry and Rooster, Bahamas

 

 

Laundry and Seaweed, Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

 

 

“After enlightenment, the laundry.” ~ Zen Proverb

 

 

 

 

 

Line ‘Em Up, Dubrovnik

 

Sliver of Sheets, Dubrovnik, Croatia

 

 

 

“A clothesline was a news forecast to neighbors passing by, 
There were no secrets you could keep when clothes were hung to dry.”~ Author Unknown

 

 

 

Colors, Bangkok

 

 

Pink Sheet and Shutters, Bangkok

 

 

 

 

“I’ve buried a lot of my laundry in the back yard.”~ Phyllis Diller

 

 

 

 

Alley Line, Dubrovnik

 

 

Full Service in Bangkok

 

 

“My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.” ~ Erma Bombeck

 

 

 

Blue, San Francisco

 

 

“It will all come out in the wash.”

“It will iron itself out.” ~ Ancient Wisdom

 

 

Stone Faced

 

 

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” Michelangelo

 

Hidden Smile, Ta Prohm, Cambodia

 

 

Heavy Lifting, Vienna

 

 

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”~ Michelangelo

 

 

Still Heavy, Vienna

 

Foot Washing, Vienna

 

 

“Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.” Anish Kapoor 

 

 

 

Beauty at Bayon, Cambodia

 

 

Greetings, Siem Reap, Cambodia

 

 

 

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.~Joseph Addison

 

 

 

 

Two Heads Are Better, Robert Arneson, CA

 

 

“A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.” Henry Moore

 

 

 

 

I’m Thinking, Stanford, CA

 

 

We Remember, Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

 

 

 

“As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

Gargoyle’s Drool, St. Vitas Cathedral, Prague

 

 

Nightmare in Vienna

 

 

I’m Home, Prague

 

 

 

“Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt” ~ Christian Boltanski

 

 

 

Slow and Steady, Vienna

 

 

 

“Where the material ends, art begins.” Etienne Hajdu 

 

 

 

Let’s Talk About It, Vienna

 

 

“Stone carving is easy – it’s the stone that’s hard.” Ongis Mutan

 

 

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