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the rhythm of my footsteps

crossing flatlands to your door

have been silenced forevermore--

the distance is quite simply

much too far for me to row,

it seems farther than ever before

i need you so much closer.

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"Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself."
— Rumi

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"While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d walk to your town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you."

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"It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains." — Lemony Snicket

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"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche."

- Hermann Hesse

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"I can call back the solemn twilight and mystery of the deep woods, the earthy smells, the faint odors of the wild flowers, the sheen of rain-washed foliage, the rattling clatter of drops when the wind shook the trees, the far-off hammering of wood-peckers.."

- Mark Twain

I have a newfound thing for birds and have had the desire to photograph a Cardinal for while now. I was given the chance to walk a little bit of this trail in the town next to mine and was overjoyed to see a Cardinal to photograph. Unfortunately, they are very fast and hard to capture with my little camera. But upon trying to photograph those bad boys, I came across this little guy, hard at work, knocking on anything in sight. He was a beauty indeed and I think now that just because what you wanted didn't happen doesn't mean that something worse will. I am really grateful I was able to shoot (photographly) this very social little guy.