Moon in her hand

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” -Frederic Lawrence Knowles

591 Spring Exhibition - The Four Elements

A Glimpse of the Sun © Rhonda Prince

Water © Wallace Rollins

Musket-fire © Paul Boocock

Windy © Mr. Urbano

For our Spring Exhibition 591photography explored the four elements: Earth, Water, Fire and Wind.  Above is just a sample of the many fine photos we received.

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chasing shadows

She chases shadows knowing it is all just a fleeting gasp
and a dark silhouette with no substance or form.
He told her she should write it but that too
escapes her and leaves her chasing the ephemeral and the
tangible at once until she can grasp each
and make them into one.
Even though she knows when she seizes one the other
will be lost.
Yet she persists with hope against hope that for one
brief moment she will capture the shadowy dusk and know
how it feels to embrace the impossible.

until

“Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.”

harmony

“Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.” Lope de Vega

In a perfect world...

 

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Hugh Mackay
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Nothing is perfect.

Life is messy.

Relationships are complex.

Outcomes are uncertain.

                         People are irrational.                     

  Hugh Mackay

enlightenment

“After enlightenment, the laundry.”  Zen Proverb

joy

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, 

even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.     -E.B. White

play on

If music be the food of love, play on.  Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1, 1–3  -Shakespeare

gathered

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future. 

The arms of love gather you together. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

the sound of wings

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

The soul that knows it not, knows no release

From little things:

Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,

Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear

The sound of wings.

 - Amelia Earhart

A boy...

...and his dog.

question 2

"To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet]"  -William Shakespeare

a question

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

                                                                                                                  Albert Einstein

pig-like

Pig-like he whines.

The Two Noble Kinsmen, 5. 4  -William Shakespeare

bright and dark

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

never tremble

“What man I dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble.”  - William Shakespeare, Macbeth

looking glass

I your looking glass will be and will modestly discover to you qualities

              which you yourself know not of.                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                     -William Shakespeare