Simplicity

delicately, the fly

mingles with the dark-veined leaves-

harmony in green

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rainer Maria Rilke

At Greenwood Cemetery

Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas TX January 13, 2017

“Things blossom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

I quoted from The Graveyard Book, because the first time I walked through Greenwood Cemetery that's what I was listening to, on Audible. The cemetery is old and solemn, but so peaceful to walk through.  Its a little quiet oasis in the middle of a modern city that is constantly loud with construction and cars.

Acorns

Taken December 8, 2016 in Dallas, Texas

These were lying on the sidewalk near my apartment in Dallas. I picked them up on my walk and made a winter candle decoration of them (with more added) later.  

“When the oak is felled, the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

— Thomas Carlyle