From The Shoreline - Rainbow Lake, Montana

"...Meanwhile the sun and the
   clear pebbles of the rain  
are moving across the landscapes, 
   over the prairies and the deep trees, 
the mountains and the rivers. 
Meanwhile the wild geese, 
    high in the clean blue air, 
are heading home again. 

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, 
the world offers itself to your imagination, 
   calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting- 
over and over announcing your place 
   in the family of things." - from Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Buttercup Find - Rainbow Lake, Near Plains, Montana

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." 

- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Reflection - Rainbow Lake, Montana

"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."

- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)