Last Best Lilacs - Missoula, Montana

"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory."

-Truman Capote (1924-1984), from Other Voices, Other Rooms

Leaf Retrospective - Missoula, Montana

I liked this little leaf so much, I noodled around with black & white possibilities - which turned out well enough that I wanted to share this alternate view, plus a keen thought on creative perspective.

"Writing has laws of perspective,

 of light and shade just as painting does,

 or music. 

If you are born knowing them, fine. 

If not, learn them. 

Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”

-Truman Capote (1924-1984)

Autumn Rewards - Greenough Park, Missoula, Montana

"Autumn rewards western Kansas for the evils that the remaining seasons impose: winter's rough Colorado winds and hip-high, sheep-slaughtering snows; the slushes and the strange land fogs of spring; and summer, when even crows seek the puny shade, and the tawny infinitude of wheatstalks bristle, blaze."

- From In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1924-1984)

Apple Destiny - The Good Food Store, Missoula, Montana

"It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms."

- From In Cold Blood by Truman Capote