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| Gesture and Lace - Image c 2011 Lynda Lehmann |
Hermann Melville said, "God’s one and only voice is silence." Somehow I agree. It's only in moments of silence that we can even begin to grasp the magnitude of the beauty all around us and the profound miracle of every day.
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| Snow Berries - Image c 2011 Lynda Lehmann |
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| Together in Beauty - Image c 2011 Lynda Lehmann |
The images are so beautiful, they are enough to make a grown man jump for joy! Perhaps one day I'll experience what your eyes have seen.
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Peter
Peter - I'm so glad you liked them! It was awesome, being there. Thanks for your visit and your code-related advice. I continue to be challenged with blog issues, but I have too much else to think about right now, to get riled!
ReplyDeleteSilence is delicious. And even more than the silence of silence, I love the silence in my head when I paint or am otherwise creatively focused.
ReplyDeleteThe branches and especially the berries contrasting with the snow are striking and lovely!
Delightful photos that really portray the beauty of a deep winter silence. I moved to the country farm because I need and enjoy the silence - something city life just doesn't offer.
ReplyDeleteGwenn - I too, love being creatively focused. I get in "flow" and everything else disappears, including all my usual mind-clatter! And usually, I get very excited and into a state of of joy that I can't describe....
ReplyDeleteJANICE - You sure have got that right, about city life. Although it's full of stimulation, sights and smells and sounds and activity and people, you can't get that silence (or almost-silence) that you get in the country. If I have to choose between the two, I'll take the quiet country life!
ReplyDeleteLynda,
ReplyDeleteI love how your works speaks volumes. You have the magic touch! :)
Theresa
Theresa - Thanks for visiting and for your kind words. If I had the magic touch, lol, I could cook like you! ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful photos. A month ago I was lucky enough to have a similar scene right outside my window, such beauty! I enjoyed your descriptions very much.
ReplyDeleteI spend much of my day in silence, sitting at my desk ooking out on nature and the birds and squirrels visiting the feeders just outside my window. (Birdsong is a welcome addition to the quiet.)
Susannah - I'll go for the birdsong, too. Or any other wildlife sounds. But I can do without the roar of lawn mowers and rumble of garbage trucks, and the ringing of neighbor's telephones!
ReplyDeleteYour images bring to mind the proverb "Do not speak unless you can improve the silence”
ReplyDeleteRONALD - One can never improve the silence. At least, for those of us who savor the silence!
ReplyDeleteI can hear the "crunch crunch crunch" of those people walking through the snow.
ReplyDeleteThat top photo's almost like cotton candy.
I'll still pass on sn*w, though. Can't help it.
LANA - If I had wings, I'd fly out of here to the Southern Sphere, tonight!
ReplyDeleteSnow has gotten old for me, too, at this point in my life!
Lynda, I know exactly what you are talking about. Snow, esp., quiets everything. All the photography that I've done successfully is nature. When I lived in Mexico, I missed the winters here in the Berkshires. I pulled up a song on my YouTube channel. You may know this James Taylor song.
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/2wa6cfq The second stanza reminds me, even though I'm from NYC, the Berkshires are my home. Sweet tides,
scriba - I didn't know that song--I've been way out of the loop on music for a long time, but I should know a James Taylor song!
ReplyDeleteI love your YouTube page background, as Kandinsky has always been my favorite artist, along with Paul Klee.
Sweet tides to you too, scriba. :)
Hey Lynda,
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, magical, mysterious pictures! Snow can be so cold and warm at the same time...amazing!
I love silence myself; through it we can reach a higher state of the mind, body and soul.
Although I love talking and laughing, I can say that I do have moments when I need silence around me. It is like going Home.
Depeche Mode sung "Enjoy the Silence!" and I offer the same advice to people lol ;)...
Cheers, my friend
MAX - How aware you are! Now that I think of it, you're right about the snow. Just like a blue flame is really hotter than a red flame. Physicists know this.
ReplyDeleteI love talking and laughing too, but it's silence that renews me, most of the time! Of course, a good laugh comes in second place to silence. And music. Or a great talk with somebody close.
Love to you, my friend!
Stunning images.
ReplyDeleteI believe we have a need for silence and it's often hard to find it these days. The still silence of a snowy forest is awe inspiring. And cold! Brrr.
KATHY - Cold, yes! Just ask me, as I just came in from shoveling the stoop, the walk and the driveway. The temp is going to forbidding minus ten tonight!
ReplyDeleteI love the top photo. Very much like what I envisioned the other side of the wardrobe to look like when I read The Chronicles of Narnia as a teenager. Of course it looked quite different in the recent movie. Movies sometimes do that, change your vision of what you saw when you read the book. I did like the movie though.
ReplyDeleteSome beautiful snowy landscapes in the area where I live can hardly enjoy much snow and so much beauty. Saludos.
ReplyDeleteLEOVI - Believe me, if you had as much snow as we have had this year, chances are good you would not like it! Although yes, it was very beautiful at times. Being in or near the woods when there is fresh snow, especially if it's a wet snow that clings to the trees, is magical!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visits!
The Photos are so beautiful. I especially like the "Together in Beauty" photo.
ReplyDeleteReut - I'm glad you like it! Thanks for your visit and come over again!
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