lily pads in Fall...

Although I love the colors of Spring and Fall,

I also like the dark silhouettes of Winter's tree branches...

I went out back yesterday to photograph our bridge, which was uprooted the night before. The power of nature and water.

I got distracted by the water patterns in the creek...

Post by Tao & Zen.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it...” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. "Practice until you see yourself in the cruelest person on Earth, in the child starving, in the political prisoner. Continue until you recognize yourself in everyone in the supermarket, on the street corner, in a concentration camp, on a leaf, in a dewdrop. Meditate until you see yourself in a speck of dust in a distant galaxy. See and listen with the whole of your being. If you are fully present, the rain of Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

I especially like the copper yellow colors of an early morning sun. When I was downtown last Sunday morning, I was focusing on the lines, patterns and reflections in the windows. Then I saw the shadows, darker areas with these wonderful blue colors...

transitioning from the colors of Summer and early Fall to overcast blue gray skies and the silhouettes of branches...

walking by the Tukwila LRT this morning...

I was taking photos downtown Sunday morning and my fingers were freezing, but it was so beautiful! The colors, the patterns, the reflections, the shadows... It seemed like there was very little difference between these human made images and the nature images I get when I'm walking in nature.