“Autumn is a visual gift given by nature to raise the morale of human beings who is worried as they enter the dark days of winter!” Mehmet Murat ildan (Been blowing & raking my ‘gift’ for weeks)
A Portland area park, so not my personal gifts….just nice on a sunny afternoon. © SwittersB
“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” Tom Hiddleston
Phelps Creek, Hood River, Oregon © SwittersB
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau
S. Fk. Rock Creek, Oregon Coast Range ©SwittersB
“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
Washington Irving (1783 – 1859)
Fountain in the Secret Garden@Belknap Gardens (Oregon) © SwittersB
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river…runs over rocks from the basement of time.. I am haunted by waters.” Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
© SwittersB
Waning Moon over Portland, Oregon…bit blurry with East wind buffeting the lens…or I need new glasses.
“We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.” Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
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