EDINBURGH

Edinburgh Botanical Gardens May 21, 2014

In this beautiful city of Edinburgh…I came to love it, especially in that enchanting time between Easter and mid-summer, when the trees clothe themselves in green and the fountain leaps in the garden under the Castle Rock, and the lyrical geometry of the flower-beds compels the citizens and students. Time is told in flowers in the steep earth-set clock.  

              ---George Mackay Brown

SPACE

 LPC/2013

Leaving something incomplete 

makes it interesting and 

gives one the feeling that 

there is room for growth.

                     ---Yoshida Kenko

Self Portrait

                LPC/Self Portrait

The artist appeals to 

that part of our being…

which is a gift and not 

an acquisition---and 

therefore, more 

permanently enduring.

              ---Joseph Conrad

The Zen Gardener

Villa des Amis/May 2014

The Zen gardener has no mind to impose his 

own intention upon natural forms. While he 

never ceases to prune, clip, weed, and train 

his plants, he does so in the spirit of being 

part of the garden himself rather than a 

directing agent standing outside. He is not 

interfering with nature because he is nature.

THE TRUTH

Villa des Amis 12-15-13

Inside this clay jug are canyons and pine mountains

And the maker of canyons and pine mountains

All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars

The acid that tests gold is there and the one that judges jewels

And the music from the strings that no one touches,

And the source of all the water

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth;

Friend, listen…

The God whom I love is inside     

                                           ---Kabir