Summer Garden: Shifting Focus

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“The beauty of that June day was almost staggering.

After the wet spring, everything that could turn green

had outdone itself in greenness

and everything that could even dream of blooming

or blossoming was in bloom and blossom.

The sunlight was a benediction.”

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Dan Simmons

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Allium

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“And so with the sunshine

and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,

just as things grow in fast movies,

I had that familiar conviction

that life was beginning over again

with the summer.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“There’s this magical sense of possibility

that stretches like a bridge

between June and August.

A sense that anything can happen.”

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Aimee Friedman

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Carrot flower and Coreopsis

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017

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Clematis

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“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

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Oscar Wilde

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For the Daily Post’s

Weekly Photo Challenge:  Focus

WPC: In Focus, Or Not….

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“When I fully enter time’s swift current,

enter into the current moment

with the weight of all my attention,

I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.”

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Ann Voskamp

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“Miracles… seem to me to rest not so much upon…

healing power coming suddenly near us

from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer,

so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear

what is there around us always.”

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Willa Cather

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“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets.

Their bark sings songs of olden days

as it grows around the trunks.

And their roots give names to all things.

Their language has been lost.

But not the gestures.”

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Vera Nazarian

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“Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence

that you take for granted.”

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Doug Dillon

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017

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“Attention is a resource as abundant as sunlight.

It streams outward all day long

whether we choose to tap into it or not.

By developing conscious focus of our attention,

we learn to harness one of the greatest creative powers

available to humankind,

one that happens to be freely available

within ourselves at all times.”

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Scott Edmund Miller

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For the Daily Post’s

Weekly Photo Challenge:  Focus

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017