Kaleidoscope #259

by D.M. SessousMay 6, 2018April 30, 2018

This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight.
― Rumi

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this flowering bush outside of a restaurant in Midlothian, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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Kaleidoscope #258

by D.M. SessousMay 5, 2018April 29, 2018

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Kaleidoscope #257

by D.M. SessousMay 4, 2018April 29, 2018

Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.
― Marc Chernoff

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a glass sun-catcher that hangs in my office window. Taken on a bright morning with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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Kaleidoscope #256

by D.M. SessousMay 3, 2018May 8, 2018

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

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.

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Kaleidoscope #255

by D.M. SessousMay 2, 2018April 29, 2018

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this container of pansies on a lunchtime walk around downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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Kaleidoscope #254

by D.M. SessousMay 1, 2018May 8, 2018

She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It’s easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said.
― Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

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.