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Cattle Point Lighthouse and easterly viewpoints of Lopez and Whidbey Island. The Cascade mountains hidden behind the distant cloud cover. San Juan Island, Washington state.

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A welcome visitor to the garden. Looking back to autumn images with some welcome texture and color bringing life to the predominantly dormant seasonal themes.

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Spending more time with my friends and shooting informal candid portraits. I’d love to fly away with them sometimes.

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Back home. This is where my heart and soul will always be most at peace. Central California coast. Point Pinos- Steinbeck Country.... Pacific Grove.

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Amazing beautiful clouds and sky in eastern Washington today.

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Low tide and a colorful sunset sky. Ruby beach, Olympic National Park, Washington State.

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The skies are alive! Late afternoon light and shadow plays offer some spectacular visuals this road weary traveler.

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Sunrise canoe trip. New River, Belize, near Lamani Lodge.

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Costa Rica bliss and the Finest trip of my life....View from our deck. Film photography

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The salt spray, the cool mist, and the roar of the crashing surf.  Swallowed in the rich aroma of decomposing kelp that, mixed with the sweet fragrance of moist Cedar bark and needles which line the coastal rain forest.  For me, there is no place for which those cycles of life and death are more tactile than along that wild seashore. Ah, what great medicine that is. Medicine for the soul!

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Personally, I would exchange Dharma Bums with On the Road, but that's just me.

15 books every young man/girl should to read

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton To Kill a Mockingbird by, Harper Lee The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff Women, by Charles Bukowski Moby Dick, by Herman Melville Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges Historias de cronopios y de famas, by Julio Cortázar On The Road, by Jack Kerouac Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Thích Nhất Hạnh (via purplebuddhaproject)

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With abundance of rainfall, and the rich moistness of the cool pacific ocean, the coastal rain forests on the Olympic Peninsula offer a rich display of birth and the cycles of life, death and rebirth. The nourishment of decay in plant materials and the upwards explosion of another season of birth and growth are quite palpable. One can smell and taste the rich cycles and be reminded of our connection to all that surrounds us. Crossing paths with an Elk on a moonlit trail is something not easily forgotten…. We need more of these reminders….A cold swim in the Pacific, watching the logs being tossed about like sticks…. yes, these are the reminders and the things that make us really feel ALIVE!

film photography, from the files…….

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Off the beaten path, Northern California, Mt. Shasta.

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Drop the craving for self, for permanence, for particular circumstances, and go straight ahead with the movement of life.

Alan Watts, Become What You Are (via awake-society)

Ah ha!

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There were moments, sometimes extending into hours, and even days- when the mind and spirit were pure, clear and connected to all the life, matter and energy of this world and the cosmic eternity. Might it be possible to recapture that ecstasy? Somewhere near Zion, Utah