Devouring the Sun

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
Howell, NJ

Hope

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napolean Bonaparte
The Dahlia in the background is what this bud hopes to become.
Howell,NJ

Awareness

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf
Manasquan, New Jersey

Summer's End

No spring or summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne