Scenes From a Morning Walk
Mark on June 28th, 2008
Have you looked at your neighborhood lately? Really looked?
Below are some snapshots of ‘ordinary’ things I saw during my half hour walk around my ‘boring’ old neighborhood this morning. It’s amazing how much beauty you can find if you look for it.
Being the science nerd that I am I picked a little flower off its stalk one day. It may have even been a clover flower, I can’t remember. But then I looked at it up really close (all science nerds have disecting scopes) and was amazed at what I saw. The stem wasn’t a solid tube but many small tubes wound and braided all together. It was fascinating! Your photos reminded me that sometimes the most beautuful things are so easily overlooked. Stop and notice them. It will feed your soul.
Wow! Stunning photography Mark, and great point. I will take a look around my neighborhood when walking the dogs later and see it from a new eye. So often we are shut out of “conscience present reality” and not cognicent of the beauty that is constantly around us. Loved this!!! Stumbled it to share with my friends. I do have to say though that I have an unrealistic (or maybe it is realistic) terror of sewer grates. I don’t want to fall down one. I refuse to walk over them, so the first picture nearly made me break in a sweat. LOL
Great stuff. You’ve really inspired me! I love that crack in the sidewalk.
Beauty comes to us from the simplest of places, doesn’t it?
Hi Mark,
There is a lot of beauty around us, but most of the time we’re too busy to notice, then we say how we need to go “somewhere” because it’s so beautiful. Ah….if we would only open our eyes.
Laurie, that is way cool about the twisted tubes making up the stem. Things aren’t always how they appear. Great example. Alan Watts compares human beings to candle flames - shifting and fluctuating slightly in form, but holding the same appearance.
Dr. Nicole - Thanks for the kind words about the pics! Had I known about your fear of sewer grates I would have left it out. Hope you get over that soon. No pun intended.
Ophelia - welcome back, where’ve you been? I’m glad the pics inspired you!
Barbara - Whenever I visit a beautiful foreign city, I sometimes see a local resident staring out their apartment window, and I always imagine they’re thinking, ‘I can’t wait to get the hell out of Rome’. For the most part, in most places, there’s a lot of wonderous stuff right in our own backyards.