Life’s a Reflection~

On By cindy knokeIn Conservation, MY PHOTOGRAPHS, REVERIES, TRAVEL REVIEWS

Of what we see.

What we perceive,

depends on where we look.

Beauty is everywhere,

just waiting to be found,

even on the cloudiest days.

Cheers to you from Olympic National Park~

(Note: We are home at The Holler now. These photos were from our May trip. I wouldn’t want you to think we are never home!)

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262 thoughts on “Life’s a Reflection~”

  7. While all of the photographs are breathtaking, I particularly love the third one that is a study is shades of gray with two small figures where earth, water, and sky converge.

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    1. Thank you very much Liz. I am just starting to think more about black and white. I love the spare starkness of it when the subject is really beautiful. Thank you for noticing.

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  11. Oh Cindy, here I was thinking you had sold everything to be permanent planet wanderers enjoying the gifts of the Earth everywhere 😀
    Well, we can all dream of it I suppose 😀

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  20. Looking at your fabulous photos this morning is really invigorating. I may never see these sights without your blog. The art of buildings in the middle of nowhere is just amazing. I like the idea of seats in the middle of forests to just sit and take a moment to really look around.

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  23. I love this post. You always have beautiful photos – that’s a given – but I like the text, too … plus the way the photos work to make the point. Simply excellent!

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  27. You have given us another series of beautiful photos – and thoughts to ponder.
    What we perceive also often depends on who is looking and how our mood when we look.
    Copying another blogger, I have started adding “date of our visit” at the bottom of my posts because some friends and family were indeed having a hard time keeping up with where we were at the moment. 🙂

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  36. A great message. At my school crossing, we have a neighbor’s beautiful backyard behind us in the morning crossing. Time to time, I remind the kids to look at it and to look at their surroundings everywhere, because you’re right, we’re surrounded by beauty. Sometimes, we have to remember to look!

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    1. Yes, I walked out to this rock many years before to see the nesting eagles and got trapped by the tide. I made it back but not without swimming part of the way. Live & lean.

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  44. Your photos remind me of what Ansel Adams said: “I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful, an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” Thank you for sharing some of the world’s magic and the wonder!

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  46. A profound thought to begin my day. I agree – life is a reflection and we must, must, must embrace our moments in the spirit of this idea. The quote that came to mind when I was view your exquisite photos was by Carl Jung: “Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”

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    1. He was such an incredible person. It took me a long time to really understand Jung, but once I did there was no going back. Did you know he was struck by lightening as a young man and was pronounced dead. He resuscitated, but his spiritual experience led to his subsequent theories. He famously said, “I don’t believe in God. I know God.” Not an exact quote but close enough. Thank you for sending another of his prescient thoughts my way Rebecca <3

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      1. I have goosebumps reading your comments. I did not know that he was struck by lightening. I first read Carl Jung’s book Memories, Dreams, Reflections in the mid 1990s. I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about when I first started out and tended to discount his work. How foolish. By the end of the book I was changed. Like you, there was no going back. And that gives me great comfort. Hugs!!!

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          1. There it is Rebecca. I am so surprised I chose the right interview to send to you, because there are many, must be synchronicity. The interviewer asks Jung, “Do you believe in God?
            Jung says, “That is difficult to answer. I know God.”
            This had a serious impact on me.

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  47. Welcome home! Tis nice to travel, but nothing beats coming home and sleeping in your own bed! These are beautiful shots, Cindy — thank you for sharing them here.

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  49. Wow wow wow! I am in awe of the beauty from these photos!! You are so right – beauty is everywhere. We need only correct the lens through which we see 🙂 Blessings to you & yours! ♥

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