Purple Paphiopedilium Slipper Orchid

Purple Paphiopedilium Slipper Orchid, originally uploaded by inspir8tion.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant," 1820

From the 20th Floor

From the 20th Floor, originally uploaded by inspir8tion.

“This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.”
-William Wordsworth

My view from my room at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District, 20th floor.

Hello Marla

Hello Marla, originally uploaded by inspir8tion.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

Oak Creek Halfway Picinic HDR

Oak Creek HalfwayPicinic Horizontal HDR_, originally uploaded by inspir8tion.

“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”

~Buddha

Amanda and Michael

Amanda and HunneyBunney, originally uploaded by inspir8tion.

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”

~ William Barclay quotes

Lees Ferry Historic Site HDR

Lees Ferry Historic Site HDR, originally uploaded by inspir8tion.

“Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.”
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~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Overlook Horizon HDR

Overlook Horizon HDR, originally uploaded by inspir8tion.

“You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.”
~John Wesley Powell