Fine scale
Wind alignment
Biologic conjunction
Great ecological variety exists even within small formations.
“Either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands….. Relations are what matter most.” – Michael Pollan
Stable shifts
Average out
Transitional forms
Hiking in the Colorado National Monument feels like being in another world from long ago.
“Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began.” – Jeanette Winterson
Hours drift away
Change of season
New life ahead
The sea offers itself to the imagination.
“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” – J.M. Barrie
Contrast similarity
Unconscious apperception
Propagation distribution
Trees self organize based on adapting to prevailing conditions.
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” – Herman Hesse
Ephemeral life
Abstractly enduring
Anticipates spirit
In an artistic life, aesthetic moments flash by at the speed of light.
“If all art is the secularization of transcendence, it participates in the dialectic of enlightenment.” – Theodor W. Adorno
Compact ovoid mass
Formed within layers
Sedimentary strata
Concretions have long been regarded as geological curiosities.
“They typically form by post-depositional mineralization around some nucleus (a rock fragment or fossil fragment).” – James St. John
Strikingly confirmed
Qualitatively integrated
Pull itself free
Full of intrigue, the drainage ditch creates its own unique ecosystem.
“All that seemed so far away and long ago, part of another life.” – Neil Peart
Indian paintbrush
High desert flower
Brash scarlet red
Bright signs of life in a sun-baked landscape attract attention.
“The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form.” – Chuck Palahniuk
Clarified form
Imaginable doubt
Excluded meditations
Moving toward the sea, foreground houses give way to the sky.
“After all, we have our continuous experience in which this world incessantly stands before our eyes, as existing without question.” – Edmund Husserl
Conjure up
Stand out
Pier peers
Shadow siblings visit the Avalon Fishing Pier.
“Brother and sister, together as friends, ready to face whatever life sends.” – Suzie Huitt