Dear Whitney, it's so heart warming to see how you notice the smallest of details with your beautiful photography. Isn't it a great art form to practice presence and mindfulness?
It really is - my whole journey and relationship with mindfulness began alongside photography. It's a wonderful practice to bring me back to the present. ♡
This is just so beautiful, I can almost smell the fragrance of the forest. To explore like a child, crawling on hands and knees, with muddied clothes and bruised and achey body. Never to reach an end or conclusion, but to keep the freshness of a child always in view, to always be curious. Raindrops are vast from this perspective, an entire world in one drop. Ahhhh, Whitney, very inspired by wonder. Thank you!
Dear Whitney, it's so heart warming to see how you notice the smallest of details with your beautiful photography. Isn't it a great art form to practice presence and mindfulness?
It really is - my whole journey and relationship with mindfulness began alongside photography. It's a wonderful practice to bring me back to the present. ♡
All the green is so beautiful 😍
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I took a deep breath and felt my shoulders relax as I gently strolled (and scrolled) through your forest pictures. Thank you for this quiet moment.
So lovely Jason, I'm very happy you enjoyed this stroll (and scroll)! ♡
Wow such beautiful writing and photographs.
Thank you so much Hayley. ♡♡
Stunningly magical and enchanting... Thank you x
Thank you so very much. ♡♡♡
The rain drops on the tiny mosses and leaves were exquisite! Like little crystal globes!
Yes! So perfectly round, I love how the water holds its shape. ♡
So lovely. Thank you.
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Ruefully, and unacceptably, Mary Oliver's poem I copied and pasted on this site was deformed.
Consequently, I cannot continue posting anything.
North Country
In the north country now it is spring and there
is a certain celebration. The thrush
has come home. He is shy and likes the
evening best, also the hour just before
morning; in that blue and gritty light he
climbs to his branch, or smoothly
sails there. It is okay to know only
one song if it is this one. Hear it
rise and fall; the very elements of your soul
shiver nicely. What would spring be
without it? Mostly frogs. But don’t worry, he
arrives, year after year, humble and obedient
and gorgeous. You listen and you know
you could live a better life than you do, be
softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will
be able to do it. Hear how his voice
rises and falls. There is no way to be
sufficiently grateful for the gifts we are
given, no way to speak the Lord’s name
often enough, though we do try, and
especially now, as that dappled breast
breaths in the pines and heaven’s
windows in the north country, now spring has come,
are opened wide.
~ Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two,
by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, Boston, 2005.
Just wonderful, thank you for sharing. ♡
This is just so beautiful, I can almost smell the fragrance of the forest. To explore like a child, crawling on hands and knees, with muddied clothes and bruised and achey body. Never to reach an end or conclusion, but to keep the freshness of a child always in view, to always be curious. Raindrops are vast from this perspective, an entire world in one drop. Ahhhh, Whitney, very inspired by wonder. Thank you!
I wish I could bottle the forest fragrance, especially after the rain, it is beyond refreshing. So happy you enjoyed it Tami, thank you. ♡♡♡
Fantastic.So beautiful🌲Thanks Whitney💖
Thank you Brooke. ♡♡♡
Absolutely stunning. I am a new follower and can't get enough of your photographs. Thank you
Thank you so much Ellen - and welcome, very happy you found your way here. ♡♡
Just beautiful, as always. Have you read Robin Wall Kimmerer's "Gathering Moss"? If you love mosses, it's a wonderful read.
Thank you Carri. I haven't, but I will explore it, thanks for the recommendation. ♡
What a beautiful place. Dirty and sore, yet happy and fulfilled - I know that feeling!
It's the best feeling! ♡
So many gorgeous shades of green 🌿
Endless! ♡
I want to be there!
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