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“No Terror in the Bang…”

03 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by smilingtoad in Experimental, Photography, Quotations

≈ 13 Comments

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Abstract, Black and White, Cine-Quotes, Creature, Drear, Literary Quotations, October, Photography, Reflection, Spider, Water

Water

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
– Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Arachnid

“-I visit this room every night…
-Visit?
-The blind always live in the rooms they live under.”
– Peeping Tom (1960)

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
– Alfred Hitchcock

Happy October…

🦇👻👀

Dragonfly Shadows and a Harried Sky

24 Saturday May 2014

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Quotations, Video

≈ 21 Comments

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Abstract, Black and White, Forest, Grief, Loss, Nature, Nikon, Pain, Photography, Quotes, Reflection, Sadness, Thoughts, Toad, Video, Videography, Wandering, Water, Woods

Some stills from the wee forest video below.  Harried

“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

HarriedToad“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
– Jean Cocteau

Harried00“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner


Thank you for drizzling by,

Jubilant cheers,

Autumn Jade

Bruised Waters

07 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by smilingtoad in Introspection, Photography, Poetry

≈ 23 Comments

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Black and White, Florida, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Reflection, Thoughts, Water

FeatherDropIn the miry garden
Solemn somnolence
Effulgent

image descriptionIn greasy moonlight
The morning sky
A bruised lavender

image descriptionThe doleful waters
A tempting grave

Embracing the Squirrely Kitten Within

29 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by smilingtoad in Introspection, Photography, Quotations

≈ 10 Comments

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Beauty, Exuberance, Healing, Hope, Inspiration, Introspection, Kitten, Life, Pets, Photography, Quotes, Reflection, Thoughts, Youth

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
-Victor Hugo

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“It's not the size of the kitten in the fight, it's the size of the puma in the kitten.” ― Mark Twain (loosely quoted)

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“What happens when people open their hearts?"..."They get better.”  ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“What happens when people open their hearts?”…
“They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

(Saga captured whilst out kitten-walking amongst a sea of squirrels)

P.S. More of the model, Fyodor Kitten, in Sir’s lovely and charming blog post here:  The Kitten That Rescued Himself)

Many jubilant cheers,

-Smiling Toad

Thoughts like Wintry Rain

05 Saturday Jan 2013

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Poetry

≈ 17 Comments

Tags

Black and White, Florida, Forest, Haiku, Nature, Nikon, Pensive, Photography, Rain, Reflection, Sad, Water

The scent of rain

Blithesome wind brushing

The black and fulgent waters

Thoughts like wintry rain

Molten

03 Saturday Mar 2012

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

Canal, Kayaking, Nature, Photography, Reflection, Sunset, Water

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