Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

Hot, muggy; it’s LA in the dusty days Freeways everywhere Down to La Jolla or is It Balboa? White wood, planked piers, neat. A beachy salt water breeze at last Salt water smells overshadow the fish- Looking down through an unseen world under its blue-green cover. A Glass bottom life. Where was today during all those years? Where was now back then? 50's Reprise; Coney Island 2014

Why am I stuck on the brink again? Can you explain this to me? I go to my yoga and practice my zen, I juice! I reduce! I swallow green tea! Where are the screams and the AHHHHs and the OHHs, The ups and the downs; what happened to those? Ok Ok. I'll just Take One More Ride !!

Young Photographer, who thinks she is photographing a friend, is actually completing a color-coordinated summer pagent. Sometimes it takes our Master Painter many hours and even days in preparation for such a display. Reflections in Red

Gone are the days when I would lament About this, about that, about where the days went, These days, I know what to do with my time, I relax, I sit back, and I think up a rhyme! Rhyming Leaves Outside 138 E. 94th Street

Elegant lady sips from a Coconut in Bedford Stuyvesant MISSION for the DAY 1.  Walk casually around, as you usually do. 2.  Stop in front of an environment that is unusual for you.      (This could be an alien shop or  peculiar tree ((to you)), or simply the contents of a coffee shop or an elevator.) 3.  You guessed! Fit In!   Become a part of the environment.  How do you think?  Walk? Sound? How is your posture?  4.  Take mental photo, or better yet an actual one to include in a text to somebody.

One sky looking down with clouds missing, Spirit winds blowing in the empty spaces, No hiding behind, no holding back, no letting be. Listening for old sounds in the waters, barely hearing the here and now, Cutting away at the stains of memory. Mama Nyaah * https://www.eventbrite.com/e/24th-annual-tribute-to-the-ancestors-of-the-middle-passage-tickets-6484813251

These photos are of the ground floor of a 1899 Brownstone. The room pictured is the former ground floor kitchen. The beams holding up the place have been replaced. The second photo is of the old beams. Notice one is completely rotted through, and others are close behind! (What fun...) First Floor Back--New beams First Floor Back--Old Beams Brooklyn Brownstone --Old Pipes Relocated.

This dog walker could not possibly be ignoring beauty in order to stare at a barely decipherable iPhone screen.  No, even his dog is fully aware.  Therefore, our Insightful Photographer has concluded that this individual dog walker is actually capturing a selfie with the beautiful tree in order to highlight not only the synchronicity of co-location, but also the inherent one-ness of all. Fortunately, the canine remains super-aware of a more tangible reality. phone-gazing dog walker Mission for the Day, 1. Find a beautiful element in your nearby environment. 2. Capture yourself near the element 3. Imagine what it would be like to share some of the elemental essence. 4. Report back to headquarters; send a photo.

All of a sudden, it is summer! Early Rose on Monroe Street, Brooklyn