“And it is time to go, to bid farewell
to one's own self, and find an exit
from the fallen self.”
D H Lawrence (1932)
#photography #London #underground #exit #Victorian #TubeStation #WayOut #ceramic #tiles #Art #ArtDeco #LeslieGreen #symmetry #PotD #poetry #DHLawrence

“Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)
#photography #Nelson'sColumn #London #silhouette #monuments #history #heroes #TrafalgarSquare #PotD #poetry #Shelley

"Sure as the most certain sure....plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in
the beams,
Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
I and this mystery here we stand."
Walt Whitman (1855)
#Scotland #Beauty #Horses #Art #Kelpies #Falkirk #statue
#AndyScott #BlueSky

“Dreams where the umbrella is folded
Into the path you are hurled
And the cards are no good that you're holding
Unless they're from another world”
Bob Dylan (1989)
#photography #umbrellas #lyrics #BobDylan #London #reflection #shops #buses #windows #PotD

"It’s not you driving the dog
it’s the dog driving you.”
#photography #dogs #tractor #IsleOfIona #humour #DrivingSeat #DogPhotography #island #Iona

“The wells are dry now and the long grasses parched by their mouths, and the horned cows have gone away to another country where someone else’s imagination is fed daily on milk.” Iain Crichton Smith (1969)
#photography #HighlandCattle #horns #PotD #poetry #Smith #nature #frost #Scotland

“Victor looked up at the mountains,
The mountains all covered with snow;
Cried: ‘Are you pleased with me, Father?’
And the answer came back, ‘No’.”
W H Auden (1937)
#photography #LandscapePhotography #mountains #sky #PotD #poetry #WHAuden #horizon #sunset #Scotland

“Splendor of ended day floating and filling me,
Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,
Inflating my throat, you divine average,
You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.”
Walt Whitman (1891)
#photography #sunset #sunrise #silhouetter #PotD #poetry #WaltWhitman #skyscape #clouds #sky

“Erik Acharius, 1808, the “father of lichenology,”
fastens samples onto herbarium sheets,
lichens’ filaments and flakes suspended.
nice—but not our father, who is spores and fragments”
Talvikki Ansel (2025)
#photography #nature #lichen #PotD #poetry #Ansel #tree #NaturePhotography

“The woods around it have it—it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.”
Robert Frost (1933)
#Forest #Woods #Sunset #NaturePhotography #Landscape #IntoTheWoods #TreeLovers #PotD #poetry #RobertFrost #hut

“The planets move, and earth is one, I know.
Blue with endlessly moving seas,
white with clouds endlessly moving,
and the continents creep on plates
endlessly moving soundlessly.”
Edwin Morgan(1990)
#photography #PotD #clouds #SkyScape #poetry #EdwinMorgan #SunRays #DramaticSky #reflections

“Stay near me—do not take thy flight!
A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in Thee,
Historian of my Infancy!”
William Wordsworth (1807)
#photography #butterfly #RedAdmiral #symmetry #pattern #poetry #Wordsworth #PotD #NaturePhotography #Macro #beauty

“It is not One, but Two,
not two but Infinite —
the universe be born and die
in endless series in the mind!”
Allen Ginsburg (1974)
#photography #infinity #illusion #mirrors #reflections #InfiniteMirror #PotD #poetry #AllenGinsburg #RecursiveArt #PhotographyLovers #VisualIllusion

“With light reflected from the invisible sun
Set, like his fortunes ; but not set for aye
Like them. The unguilty Power pursues his way,
And before him doth dawn perpetual run.”
William Wordsworth (1831)
#photography #reflection #IonaAbbey #poetry #Wordsworth #sun #shining #IsleOfIona

“Quick, said the bird, find them, find them,
Round the corner. Through the first gate,
Into our first world, shall we follow
The deception of the thrush? Into our first world.”
T S Eliot (1935)
#photography #gate #poetry #TSEliot #PotD #NaturePhotography #HiddenPlaces #Overgrown #Rustic

“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.”
T S Eliot (1939)
#photography #kittens #PotD #poetry #TSEliot #CuteCats #CatsofBluesky #cute #adorable

“Animals bring us tranquillity. Cats
sleep through a war. Dogs ignore your sister’s
cancer, forgive betrayals and rations”
A K Ramanujan (1969)
#photography #cat #kitten #sleeping #poetry #Ramanujan #PotD #CatPhotography #tranquility #peace #sleep #pets

“Splendor of ended day floating and filling me,
Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,
Inflating my throat, you divine average,
You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.”
Walt Whitman (1888)
#photography #sunset #poetry #WaltWhitman #PotD #Edinburgh #skyline #golden #dawn

“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!”
Walter Scott (1805)
#photography #monument #WalterScott #Edinburgh #skyline #silhouette #city #horizon #poetry #PotD #BigWheel #sunset #Scotland #SirWalterScott

“And the great castles shall be filled with dust,
The arms shall crumble, the dogs be unfed,
The pipers wander westward masterless.”
Edwin Morgan (1967)
#photography #ruin #castle #StAndrews #sunset #silhouette #poetry #EdwinMorgan #battlements #PotD #golden

Here are my videos on "Inkscape and Pattern Creation"
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#StringArt #CurveStitching #CurveEnvelope
#Mathematics #Art #MathematicalArt #Design #Symmetry #Patterns #Beauty #Inkscape

“How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?”
Bob Dylan (1962)
#photography #WhiteDove #dove #ruin #Tigh-an-Easbuig #Iona #lyrics #BobDylan #PotD #Scotland #islands #TheWestCoast

“Geese in flocks above you flying,
Their direction know.
Icy brooks beneath you flowing,
To their ocean go.”
W H Auden (1936)
#photography #BirdPhotography #nature #geese #sky #BlueSky #PotD #poetry #WHAuden #migration

Beautiful composition

“I could only be bird, as the wheel of the day turned slowly
between sun and moon. When night fell, it was stale,
unbearably quiet, holding the breath of the dead.”
Carol Ann Duffy (1990)
#photography #moon #Fionnphort #IsleOfIona #WestCoast #sunset #seascape #evening #poetry #Duffy #PotD

“The formed stone, the visible crucifix,
The dressed altar, the lifting light,
LIght
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
T S Eliot (1934)
#photography #altar #IonaAbbey #IsleOfIona #Scotland #islands #Abbey #marble #IonaMarble #PotD #poetry #TSEliot

“Who'll carry the coffin?
Me, says the sunset, the whole world will weep
To see me lower it into the deep.
I'll carry the coffin.”
Ted Hughes (1969)
#photography #sunset #sunrise #fiery #islands #WestCoast #Iona #PotD #poetry #TedHughes #clouds #NaturePhotography #seascape

“Yet not the golden islands
That gleam amid yon flood of purple light,
Nor the feathery curtains
That canopy the sun’s resplendent couch,
Nor the burnished ocean waves
Paving that gorgeous dome,
So fair, so wonderful a sight”
P B Shelley (1816)
#photography #sunset #PotD #poetry #Shelley #clouds

“He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity.”
Salman Rushdie (1990)
#photography #sea #pattern #art #waves #PotD

“Sunset drives a butcher blade
In the day’s throat.
We turn through an ebb salt and sticky as blood.”
George Mackay Brown (1954)
#photography #sunset #sunrise #clouds #golden #PotD #poetry #GeorgeMackayBrown #seascape #IsleOfIona #WestCoast #Scotland #islands #horizon #ablaze