Kaleidoscope #161

Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
–Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid 

 

 

 

 

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 #159

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.
–Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 22 

 

 

 

 

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 #158

It is a new world, and we must decide how we are to end this old one and begin it anew.
–Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s the big blue sky pic I took on a recent trip to Illinois. No special lighting or retouching, simply a snap from my smart phone. Yes, the sky really was that blue…

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Kaleidoscope #157

 

You raze the old to raise the new.
–Justina Chen, North of Beautiful 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s water flowing along the sidewalk into a storm drain. This was taken in 2016 on a bright fall afternoon, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera.

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Kaleidoscope #156

But there’s a beginning in an end, you know? It’s true that you can’t reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.
–Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s my car’s engine, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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Kaleidoscope #155

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!
–Jacob Grimm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Kaleidoscope #154

 There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
–John Steinbeck

 

 

 

 

 

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 #153

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.
–David Bottoms 

 

 

 

 

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