Summer Days Alone

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Well, here's my Photoshop Art piece for this week.  It reminds me of summer coming to an end. There's a certain sadness to it.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. 

Thomas Jefferson

Yellow Canoe

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One year in May, I spent time in Lake Tahoe, California.  Each morning I would get up very early to see what I could see.  The water would be very still and beautiful.  You could tell that it wasn't quite the summer season, so many of the boats and such hadn't been maintained in a while.  The yellow canoe along the fence was begging to be photographed.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else. 

Buddha 

Mono Lake

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Mono Lake (rhymes with "OH no") is the largest natural lake completely within the state of California. Once endangered when water feeding it was diverted toward the Los Angeles basin, it lost half its volume in the 40 years before an agreement was reached to save it. Today's Mono Lake is 7 vertical feet lower than the targeted level, and it could take well into the 2010's before it reaches that depth.

“Moody and withdrawn, the lake unites a haunting loveliness to a raw desolateness.”

Dale Morgan quotes

Falling Kids

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This is one of my Photoshop projects that I've had on my mind for many years. Finally, I did it with many, many, many cutouts. These are photographs taken in planes, backyards, on lakes and parking lots.

Fall down seven times, get up eight

Japanese Proverb