Steel & Air: The Contrast
June 2, 2009 on 12:18 pm | In General | No Comments
As i look for WILDNESS i look for the contrasts.
Here is the Question : What is stronger, Steel or Air ?
Steel & Air JimJ09
The top phot0 came out of a series of photos of Pete & Nick putting a new roof on a ranch barn.
June is Busting out all over
June 2, 2009 on 11:44 am | In General | No Comments
The Ranch House View JimJ09
Springness JimJ09
The Ineffable Expression of Nature MAY 1st.
May 7, 2009 on 12:51 pm | In Photographs | 3 Comments
Yellow Bird Song JimJ09
Ancient men an the ancient women were able to see through a veil to a firm, invisible being
on the other side of the screen of Nature.
” Its not what you look at…. it’s what you see .”
Henry David Thoreau
“ Nobody sees a flower, really. To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,”
Georgia O’Keefe
“ These are the plant Teachers, I know them. Our elders show us early how to see them. It takes a lot of energy for them to come to us in a way that we can recognize, a form which appeals to us and for which we have an affinity. The plants are trying to help us ”
Malidoma Some, chief shaman of the African Dagara tribe
“ The natural world is a spiritual house. We walk there through forests of physical things that are also spiritual things; they watch us with affectionate looks. “
Charles Baudelaire, French poet
Can you SEE the Nature Spirits I found in a shelter belt on the ranch May Day 2009 ?
Nature Spirit #1
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Nature Spirit # 2
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Nature Spirits # 3
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Water on the Road
April 26, 2009 on 11:52 am | In General | No Comments
The Spring Floods
Hecla Highway
Residents beware
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Water on the road Hecla, South Dakota
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Wild Willow 1
April 26, 2009 on 11:29 am | In Photographs | No Comments
Wild Pussy Willow in Spring
Spring Wildness Aglow
Wild Willow Grow
Lost memory of the Snow
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Wild Willow Aglow
by JimJ09
LOVE BLOOMS
April 11, 2009 on 5:41 pm | In Collage | No Comments
There is something infinitely healing
in the repeated refrain of nature–
the assurance that dawn comes after night,
spring after winter.
Rachel Carson
Graphic Design / Photography by james johnson
Easter Lamb
April 11, 2009 on 5:30 pm | In General | No Comments
This is the daughter of my favorite yew Mary Margaret she was voted ” THE EASTER LAMB ”
for our Easter Festival here on the Ranch
The Easter Lamb JimJ09
Mother Love
April 11, 2009 on 5:22 pm | In General | No Comments
Life abounds in all forms here on the Ranch in Spring
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