Kaleidoscope #805


Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I stumbled across these bizarre flowers while taking a walk around my hotel on a July trip to Shawsville, VA to visit family. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Kaleidoscope #804


“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This dramatic sky was captured on my way home from work in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Kaleidoscope #803


Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone 

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween everyone!
Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Kaleidoscope #802


Magic 
Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, 
Eddie touched a troll, 
Laurie danced with witches once, 
Charlie found some goblins gold. 
Donald heard a mermaid sing, 
Susy spied an elf, 
But all the magic I have known 
I’ve had to make myself.” 
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends 

 

 

Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Kaleidoscope #801


Science is magic that works.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle 

 

 

Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I stumbled across this big guy hanging out on some walkway trim while taking a walk around my hotel on a July trip to Shawsville, VA to visit family. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Kaleidoscope #799


But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.
Rick Riordan, The House of Hades 

 

 

 

 

Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Kaleidoscope #798


Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War 

 

 

Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It was sent to me by a good friend who happens to spend his days outside as a postal carrier. This fella in a creepy Halloween graveyard was found along his delivery route. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from his smart phone.

Kaleidoscope #797


Believe in Your Heart. Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart 

 

 

 

 

Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Kaleidoscope #796


Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking 

 

 

Getting into the Halloween spirit with some creepy and sometimes disturbing kaleidoscopes…
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I stumbled across this big guy hanging out on some walkway trim while taking a walk around my hotel on a July trip to Shawsville, VA to visit family. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.