No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
—Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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Kaleidoscope #620
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking an afternoon walk around Floyd, VA in the rain. Hanging baskets with a beautiful variety of flowers seemed to be outside every shop. I couldn’t resist these deep violet and vivid pink flowers. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone
Kaleidoscope #619
One Choice
One Choice, decided your friends.
One Choice, defines your beliefs.
One Choice, determines your loyalties – Forever.
ONE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
Below is the original photo used to create this image. My front yard is only good for growing two things, mushrooms and moss… At least it’s green! No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #618
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this lovely and unusual flower in a small garden near my parking deck in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #617
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this flowering bush on a sunrise walk around my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #616
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all – the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking a walk around Floyd, VA, my parents and I came across a farmers’ market and this fantastic flower box. It was Mom’s favorite, so Mom, these flower-box kaleidoscopes are for you! No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #615
We are our choices. ― Jean-Paul Sartre
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found these lovely and unusual flowers in a small garden near my parking deck in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #614
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
Below is the original photo used to create this image. Found a great moss and lichen bespeckled brick wall on an afternoon walk near Forest Hill Park, in Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Quote of the Day – Unlike the bough…
Unlike the bough that
shook off her dead leaves violently
like a wet terrier,
unlike the beating of the butterfly,
her wings, against the cocoon,
some dreams never made a move.
― V.S. Atbay
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Kaleidoscope #613
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
― Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
Below is the original photo used to create this image. My front yard is only good for growing two things, mushrooms and moss… At least it’s green! No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 