Oxherding Is Fun

…from Smullyan’s “The Tao is Silent”…
There is something blurred and indistict
Antedating heaven and earth
How indistinct! How blurred!
Yet within it are forms.
How dim! How confused!
Quiet, though ever functioning.
It does nothing, yet through it all things are done.

Texas wildflower: Sage

Love that creamy purple bokeh!!!

Have you every taken a rose apart piece by piece, petal by petal?  Its fascinating!

This tree is amazing.  This is one of my most favorite trees on our land. It blooms through most of summer and now I have smaller trees propogated from its seeds. Local resident expert Jim McCulloch tells me that it is Anacacho Orchid Tree, Bauhinia congesta but I think it is nature’s version of the [...]

 just a simple Rose
can mean all or nothing    
still simply a Rose.

Just because I like yellow! And this was shot on our land near the Texas hill country.  
Photography Notes: f/5.6, 1/500 per second, 70mm focal length, Aperture levels, sharpening and vignetting added.  

These Rock Roses do very well in our Texas heat and the deer have not eaten them.  Also, I love the bokeh this lens produces (Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8).

Yin – Yang, Light – Dark, Male – Female… coming together to recreate.
NOTE: I only take pictures of flowers in the their natural setting, never cutting and then posing in the studio.

What in the hell is oxherding, you ask?
I can either state that starting early and for a many years I had been searching for the best out of spiritual disciplines from my own Roman Catholic upbringing to eastern Zen and Taoist thought and practices to Native American spirituality to ancient Indian(Hindu) views on creation and [...]

Nearly twenty years ago I sat alone in my basement home office realizing I made choices that I would spend a lifetime correcting; but happily so.  I sat there with the realization that I turned my back on my natural talents and made life decisions that were safe and in the best fiscal interest of [...]