Kaleidoscope #139

 

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
— T.S. Eliot , Little Gidding 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a bush from the front of my house that has its winter berries going on. Taken on an bright morning with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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Kaleidoscope #138

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life.
–Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This one came out of the archive. It’s a stormy Atlantic Ocean from a trip to Nags Head, North Carolina in the late 90’s. I had one of those awesome film cameras that took panoramic shots. Film negative saved to CD.

 

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Kaleidoscope #137

 

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.

 

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Quote of the Day – How does one become…

 

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
–Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

 

 

 

To see the inspiration behind this original digital art, please see the story here. Please note that I swapped out an original photo I’ve taken for the image I downloaded from Pixabay.

Kaleidoscope #136

 

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
–L.M. Montgomery

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taken from my hotel window in December, 2017 while visiting family before Christmas. No special lighting or effects, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

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Kaleidoscope #134

 

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
–Oprah Winfrey 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gorgeous sunset taken outside of Mesa, Arizona in November, 2008 at my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party. If you look closely, you can make out saguaro cacti. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.

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Kaleidoscope #133

 

Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
–Ogden Nash, Collected verse from 1929 on

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. All I can say, is sometimes you have to look down to see a rainbow.. I caught this oil-slick rainbow at dusk after a rain just outside my office building with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

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Kaleidoscope #132

 

Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
–Charles Lamb

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This one came out of the archive. It’s a stormy Atlantic Ocean from a trip to Nags Head, North Carolina in the late 90’s. I had one of those awesome film cameras that took panoramic shots. Film negative saved to CD.

 

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Kaleidoscope #131

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.
–Rainer Maria Rilke

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gorgeous sunset taken outside of Mesa, Arizona in November, 2008 at my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party. If you look closely, you can make out saguaro cacti. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.

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