Oxherding Is Fun

“When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
- Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland
When you read that quote, what comes to mind?  Is it a negative idea that starts to swirl as in we have to have destination or else we are lost?  We are driven to believe we have to [...]

You say you live in the moment
but are you really measuring time
by what you have done
or what is to come?
Is your vision is tempered
by what your eyes can see
or what your mind tumbles into existence?
Within the mist
do you see the occlusion of vision
or floating ghosts of grey
playing in the realm of the imagination?
I wrote the [...]

At recent trip to Zilker Botanical Gardens I was shooting all the things everyone else was photographing: the water lilly blooms, the many bright colorful flowers, the mighty oak, the stream in the Japanese gardens, the dinosaur in the prehistoirc garden, etc.  But my favorite image of the trip is the simple one below that [...]

Which weighs more as it floats in the Merced: El Capitan or the Leaves of Autumn?

Last night I dreamt I was Chuang-tzu who was dreaming he was a buttefly and when I awoke I did not know if it was I or Chuang-tzu or the butterfly who was the dreamer. — adapted of course from Chuang-tzu

…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