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“This is our history – from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges – our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation’s infrastructure.”
~Cory Booker~
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“Poetry is a dream which gives us vision; photography is a reflection of our dreams that give us hope.”
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“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
~Dwight D. Eisenhower~
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On my way home yesterday I noticed the landscape was filled with the warmth and colors of spring. The entire desert seemed to be decorated over night by the hand of God. What a lovely sight.
I was compelled to pull off the highway to snap some shots.
As Louis Armstrong suggested in his song…
“it’s a wonderful world,” and, that it is…
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Just another rock hound day at the Texas Hill Quarry in Arizona. Tinker loved it. She’s such a good hiking friend.
”
My dog creates a soft rhythm in my heart
”
~Dawna Bowles~
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How they linger…
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“This is our history – from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges – our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation’s infrastructure.”
~Cory Booker~
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I just couldn’t let this year end without posting one last train photograph.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
I am painting my shed. I finished one side today. Have three more to do. I was so sick of looking at old metal that I decided to do something, other then complain, about it. Staying in the solution.
Another beautiful day here. 58° and sunny. Life is good.
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I am going home because that’s where my heart lives..
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Merry Christmas everyone! I have been so busy with my crafts that I have neglected my WordPress. Finishing up with dinner today and I’ll be back in the saddle again. Hope everyone is having a blessed Christmas.
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
~Charles Dickens~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
The truth is always simple
The journey is not
Humans complicate
The result
Common core
A lost society
That can’t find its way home
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Another beautiful day in the desert. 62° and sunny.
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Are reluctantly welcomed…
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
~Jimi Hendrix~
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There’s a hole in the sky
where my heart fell through
It fell to earth and broke
For you…
……………………………….
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“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
I used to feel small and insignificant
Until I took a photograph
of my shadow
I felt a sense of greatness
When I posted my shadow on the wall
Photography is like that…
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Last night I was driving
Against a most lovely storm
Silhouetted by the sunset
Rendering hope
As the sunset found serenity
In the midst of the storm
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The brazen scorn of the desert
Can seem punishing
Although we must ask ourselves
Is truth a punishment
If we choose to look its way
There’s a certain beauty
Even in the face of shame
The sun’s wrath to some
May be seen as a curse
But to others it may be a gift
In our deepest hour of despair
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Color eases our perceptions
It reveals all truth o itself
Unlike a black and white photograph
That persuades us to analyze
What we have envisioned
Its message to be
Then when we are convinced of it
We awake the next day
Only to find that it has changed
While we were sleeping
In living Color…
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“There is a gray area between the black and the white, and it’s called balance.”
“The things I see sway me to become better, See more, and believe.”
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“Serenity is to find Peace in the midst of the storm.”
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Leaves a raging sky…
A Divided nation…
With
Lies
Now
Lies
Broken…
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Our sky is on fire…
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Alone I watch the desert skies
Wondering where you are and how you arrived…
I continue to wait for you to fly and rest from your journey
Like you used to when you were tired of flying against the wind
This time you’re really flying high
You have probably forgotten
where you are and where you’re going
I’m sure by now that you cannot find
Your way home
Yet I wait
Why…
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A sunset is a preparation for night
Also a memorial for today
Night sets the stage
For morning’s sun rise
Darkness can be a solace
When you realize
It is always darkest
Just before the dawn
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I went to bed last night
And I fell asleep
I fell…
And fell…
Into my dream absent of time
When Your heart was free
Your spirit was kind
Serenity and peace
Set you apart
I was frightened
I tried to escape
I screamed…)))))
And when I awoke
You were standing over me
Holding a mirror so I could see
Dreams…
What do they mean…
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It’s been a long time
Since I have heard from you
Memories cloud my eyes
It’s true…you are really gone…
When you left you took my heart with you
Could you mail it back…
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I heard a knock in the night
Who could this be…
I answered with a shout
My gun in hand
Ready for a bout
Who is it I protested
A voice replied
Just
checking
to
see
if
you
were
Awake…
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Burn our books,
Limit our freedoms
Deny our inalienable rights
You will never possess
The wisdom of our minds
Nor the freedom of our spirit’s
We are not bound by this world
Our allegiance is omnipresent
A light you cannot see…
We are free….
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Trains
Delivering
Merchandise without names
Made by absent faces crying in the rain forever…
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If I cry out in Your Name
Would You hear my burden
And take away their pain
Only You know what they’ve been through
Will You hold and protect them
Your mercy I know it’s true
I need a miracle this very hour
Grant them a vision
So they might see
The love they long for is endless in Thee
Touch their hearts and heal their minds
The price You paid was not in vain
You conquered death
So that they might live
I cannot watch them die another day
Father I lay them in Your arms
With my one last breath
I turn my head and walk away
My thoughts…
“I understand now how You felt…”
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As I consider the heavens in my sky
I ponder as to where
This place is we call heaven
My thoughts propose
Surely an impossibility
I sit in silence for a moment in why
Aware the greatest distance
Is between my head and my heart
Awaiting an answer…
An aura of heaven confirms it is real
Peace encircles a doubtful heart
The breath of angels wisps
In a breeze caressing my soul
Heaven is how you feel
When everything else is so unreal
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Moon beams a bequeath of vision
As the night unfolds
Elimination of fears unknown
A colored space of light
In a blackness of time
Do not be fooled by what you feel
Sometimes our fears are so unreal
Perceptions of dark maybe
Is an absence of light
Dark is only a limited reflection
Of its ability to absorb
A mirrored perception
Do not fear in the darkest hour
Faith is the substance of things unseen
Follow
Him
And
just
believe
It’s
Time
Can you see…?
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Don’t want to be left behind…
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This is by far the biggest ant hill I have ever seen. Just goes to show that in fact, hard work pays off. They have built an ant castle:)
Amazing!
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
~Henry David Thoreau~
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May be closer than it appears…
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What makes a man refuse to see
Why can he look up in the sky and see the clouds and still not see the light
Or smell the grass
Or feel the breeze
Or touch the blue
Of the Skies
Why
Oh
Why…
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
~Abraham Lincoln~
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Trembling in your dreams…
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Will persuade you to awareness
In your search for truth and…
Can be painfully obvious when discovered.
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
~Mark Twain~
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What is real
Your words
Hit my chest
Cracked my heart
Open
Just enough
To let you in
And I am now able to touch
What I never could..
Feel…
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A photograph is a feeling about an awareness of something inside you that you always wanted to know, yet the more you feel it, the less you understand it, but long to…
And you continue to capture particles of time and awareness of the moment
Your photograph is a reflection of who you are, or maybe what you want to be, or where you can go…
At times you get lost, and you are glad because if you didn’t, it wouldn’t be worth the journey…
Time has come and gone…
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Seashells serve the dam as a decor, cleverly laid upon the banks for the eye of the lens to adore.
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A place to hide and feel what I never could
Escape from the other side where things are not what they seem
I used to believe I had no place to go
But I found this perfect place inside
Under here…in 1904
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Arizona mud resulting in the exhumation of millions of mollusk shells.
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Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.
(Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge: A Nove)
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And I’m glad it’s not a train this time.
Relief…
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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
~Aaron Sussman~
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“You don’t take a photograph. You borrow it, when you capture a moment of time and savour it.”
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“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
~Ansel Adams~
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
[~Ansel Adams~1902 – 1984]
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“Our spirits are like a body of water, when they are still they best reflect the heavens.”
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“When words become unclear, I shall focus on photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
~Ansel Adams~
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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
~Ansel Adams~
“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.”
~Yann Arthus-Bertrand~
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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
~Alfred Kreymborg~
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
~Henry David Thoreau~
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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
*Friedrich Nietzsche*
The music of art….
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Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
*Albert Einstein*
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
* Albert Einstein*
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Harvey Mackay
Live free…
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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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[by Donna Bowles (C)2014]
The cotton fields of Arizona.
Not that’s a twist…
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Today is the tomorrow I was afraid of…
Hold on tight to your dreams…
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
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