"Not till we are completely lost or turned around
do we begin to find ourselves."
~Henry David Thoreau

#bnw #blackandwhite #landscape #boardwalk #path #Thoreau #ocean #sea #water #sky #clouds #meditation #mentalhealth #florida #georgia #GulfCoast #beach

Sunrises and sunsets never get old.
Here are a few photos from road trips
across the Gulf Coast.

Solar
~Philip Larkin
Suspended lion face
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky

#poetry #sunset #sunrise #travel #Louisiana #NOLA #FrenchQuarter #MississippiRiver #yellow #urban

"They are so unexpected.
They are as good as salt.
If someone had brought them
to van Gogh's room daily
his ear would have stayed on."
~Anne Sexton

#flowers #poetry #naturephotography #travel #florida #georgia #nikon #zen #meditate #garden #books #september #Tuesday #orange #yellow

"Why should she give her bounty to the dead?
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?"
~Wallace Stevens

#SundayMorning #poetry #poet #Sunday #bnw #blackandwhite #bird #egret #travel #nature #photography #zen #meditation #water #swamp #stmarks #florida #WallaceStevens

"All in all, you're just another brick in the wall."
~Pink Floyd

#music #rocknroll #pinkfloyd #bnw #blackandwhite #photography #urban #street #atlanta #mono #zen #meditation #cityscape #writer #monday #architecture #design #construction #wall #rue

"love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail"
~ee cummings

#poetry #eecummings #skateboard #love #atlanta #bnw #blackandwhite #photography #street #urban #travel #zen #meditation #saturday #weekend #chill #thepath

The conversation.

#bnw #blackandwhite #photography
#urban #citylife #outdoors #people #streetlife #streetphotography #atlanta #design #symmetry
#architecture #poetry #zen #mono #uptown
#theater #drama #fiction #writer

"Even the sun-clouds this morning
cannot manage such skirts."
~Sylvia Plath

#poetry #sunday #July #landscape #photography #nature #SylviaPlath #clouds #bnw #blackandwhite #mono #water #Florida #travel #meditation #zen

It's hot 🔥 in the park, but the sky is 😎 cool.

#sky #summer #clouds #foto #nature #urban #streetphotography #jogging #fitness #Atlanta #PiedmontPark #walking #citylife #mentalhealth #zen #meditation #blue #green #June #cool

Dogfish by Mary Oliver

"Also I wanted
to be able to love. And we all know
how that one goes,
don't we?"

#sunday #fathersday #poetry #sky #sunrise #sunset #travel #landscapephotography #nature #sun #sunshine #love #Georgia #Florida #zen #meditation #water #gulfofmexico #clouds #yellow #blue

"The building
thinks

Angular rock

Green skyscraper

Black ziggurat

Miniature
of time

Made
into altar..."

~Cecilia Vicuña

#architecture #poetry #street #rue #design #symmetry #bnw #zen #blackandwhite #citylife #sky #urban #fotografia #foto #atlanta #mood #light #dark

"‪It was also my violent heart that broke,
falling down the front hall stairs."
~Anne Sexton

#stairs #bnw #blackandwhite #mono #design #up #down #museum #atlanta #photography #travel #urban #street #architecture #inspiration #sunday #mindfulness #love #poetry #heartbreak #AnneSexton #zen

"Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
~Shakespeare

#bluesky #blue #clouds #train #railroad #sunset #May #travel #landscapephotography #photography #nature #architecture #shakespeare #poetry #contrast #zen #urban
#foto #natuur #meditation

"it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world."
~Mary Oliver

#poetry #bnw #blackandwhite #photography #birds #egret #birdwatching #travel #Georgia #Florida #nature #zen #landscape #Monday #May #MemorialDay #fly #joy #meditation #hiking

"Ode to the sun-drenched sea,
to the red planks and purple nails..."
~Pablo Neruda

#sunset #photography #landscapephotography #nature #twilight #poem #poet #sky #gold #golden #clouds #ocean #PacificOcean #California #travel #zen #meditation #joy #Sunday #May #Neruda #seascape #colorful

"Come slowly – Eden!
Lips unused to Thee –"
~Emily Dickinson

#sky #blue #bluesky #poetry #poem #EmilyDickinson #water #ocean #sea #landscape #landscapephotography #travel #Florida #Georgia #clouds #naturephotography #zen #photography #dreams #storms #rain #poet #Eden

"To wander in the fields of flowers
pull the thorns from your heart."
~Rumi
‪
#flower #flowerpower #pink #green #photo #foto #zen #rumi #photography #nature #landscape #travel #Georgia #Florida #spring #outdoors #joy #meditation #writer #poetry #mentalhealth #bluesky #macro #hiking

“The flamingo, a fire on the lagoon,
Is it a tree that burns in the sunshine?
The bird is a tree, a fire, a wild passion.”
~D. H. Lawrence

#flamingo #birds #birdwatching #pink #poetry #Atlanta #AtlantaZoo #streetphotography #citylife #urban #travel #Georgia #nature #zen #meditation #yoga #passion

"I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful."
~Nazim Hikmet

#bnw #blackandwhite #streetphotography #rue #photography #urban #Atlanta #poetry #travel #clouds #skyscrapers #architecture #design #city #zen #fotografia
#landmark #world #ville

"A certain blue enters your soul."
~Henri Matisse

#blue #bluesky #bluewater #tranquility #clouds #landscape
#nature #zen #painter #poet #walking #hiking #zen #florida #travel #photography #landscapephotography #dreams #mindfulness #horizon #friday #tgif #joy #inspiration

"On this path
let the heart ❤️ be your guide."
*Rumi

#Rumi #path #walking #hiking #zen #mindfulness #sky #bluesky #Atlanta #photography #landscape #street #city #travel #trees #health #poetry #photographie #fitness #Sunday

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1933) / Ernest Hemingway

#bnw #blackandwhite #mono #travel #Atlanta #Georgia #cafe #urbanphotography #photography #fiction #prose #shortstories #writer #restaurant #community #lunch #teatime #coffe #breakfast #photographie #rue #streetphotography

"We're on a road to nowhere."
~Talking Heads

#imagination #creativity #art #photography #street #horizon #landscapephotography #dreams #mysticism #zen #comedy #travel #bridge #design #symmetry #spirituality #psychic #mindfulness #poetry #rockmusic #sky #ocean

"You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

#stairs #bnw #blackandwhite #mono #design #up #down #mlk #highmuseum #atlanta #photography #travel #urban #street #architecture #inspiration #thursday #mindfulness

"Your light is more magnificent
than sunrise or sunset."
~Rumi

#sky #sunshine #nature #photography #travel #clouds #Rumi #Saturday #foto #spring #landscapephotography
#meditation #zen #red #pink #yellow #blue #radiant #poetry #April #violet #joy #inspiration #sunset

Moon over Long Beach, California.

#luna #moon #nightsky #photo #photography #cityscape #beach #street #urban #streetphotography #bnw #mono #blackandwhitephotography #poetry #music #theater #drama #movies #meditation #zen #California #LongBeach #travel #architecture

“Turn your face to the sun
and the shadows fall behind you.”
~Maori Proverb

#sun #sunshine #photo #photography #glamour #portrait #fashion #elegance #stairs #architecture #design #bnw #blackandwhite #California #SanDiego #street #travel #landscape #urban #hat #sky

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
~Oscar Wilde

#flower #flowerpower #red #yellow #green #photo #foto #photography #nature #landscape #travel #Georgia #Florida #spring #outdoors #joy #zen #meditation #writer #poetry #mentalhealth

"Sitting in the morning sun
I'll be sitting when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
And I watch 'em roll away again."
~Otis Redding

#beach #sand #sky #waves #surfing #sunbathing #b&w #bnw #blackandwhite #landscape #seascape #music #ocean #OtisRedding #tranquility #meditation #photography

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players."
~As You Like It

#Shakespeare #theater #drama #movies #film #performance #sky #bluesky #travel #acting #photography #actor #writer #screenplay #comedy #tragedy #inspiration #cool #architecture #street #streetphotography