After the sunset

 At Lake Tomahawk, I was finishing my supper, and enjoying the interactions between owners of dogs. They were pretty interesting...the owners sometimes were more expressive than the dogs!

And then pop pop, whiz whiz, and there were redish gold streaks in the sky. Now where did they come from?

I knew this distance with only a phone camera, I couldn't zoom into the flickering of fire in the woods to the right of the road going up the hill in the center. You might be able to see just a pin prick of its color in those dark trees. On that night it was still warm, and not too windy for people to have a fire circle in their back yards. A day later the winds picked up and no outside burning was allowed.

I'm partial to the vista, though I know others prefer to see what's over there, not just a hint of a house. I haven't retouched these at all...though may have straightened them when they looked a bit sideways.

Today's quote:

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.

BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST

Today's quote:

“Freedom and love go together. 
Love is not a reaction. 
If I love you because you love me, 
that is mere trade, 
a thing to be bought in the market; 
it is not love. 
To love is to not ask anything in return, 
not even to feel that you are giving something.
And it is only such love that can know freedom.”

- J. Krishnamurti

This is also true of the love we show ourselves. Oftentimes we won’t allow our mind to be peaceful and content until we achieve some goal in return… why?

You have the power to feel happy and free right now - once you let go of any self-imposed rules that you’re holding on to. 

A parting question - what’s stopping you?

Nick Polozzi

Sepia Saturday on my other blog

So if you go over to When I was 69...there's a post about women in planes. Meme from Sepia Saturday is planes.

I somehow thought it belonged there rather than in my Black Mountain blog.

Not that I forgot you here. I just spent my time posting that.

For my Black Mountain friends...here's at least a photo!

Sunset as I drove through Micky D's.

Today's quote:

"There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death; If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive…” —Harriet Tubman

Sunset

 

Looking west just had a bit of glow to the sky.

But the clouds to the south said "we're in the pink."

Today's quote:

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

ARTHUR ASHE

Connecticut sunset

Did I say there were Rhododendron only in the North Carolina woods?  Well, my mistake.  Here in a piney woods, rather than oak, are healthy old Rhodos on a December twilight.  This was taken at 4:57 pm on Dec. 26, 2014.

Colors of winter

Sunset at Zen Center near Asheville, NC

Winter's pale reflections on clouds and snow.

This post is added to the meme, Weekend Reflections.  Come on over to see other photos from around the world!