It's Snowing Inside

The city of Chicago (and it's octopus suburbs) advances over the surrounding fertile farmland at a rate of half a mile per year. (source: Illinois Farm Bureau) Covered over with concrete, that rich dark soil will never return to productive life.

So it goes with farms, too. Barns that no longer house livestock aren't worth the expense of maintaining. They gently decay, are torn down, or are pushed in a pile and set ablaze. Like the proverbial old gray mare - barns ain't what they used to be.

Seeking Shelter

The winter of 2009 - 2010 was unusual world-wide, it seems. We in the Midwest have had to shovel more than our accustomed share of 'global warming'. But the snow becomes a visual map of the highways and byways of animal life. I'm fascinated by their wanderings.

When God's Ready

This shot brings to mind a favorite quote from that master of all things magical, Ansel Adams: "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."

Yes! Click. : )

Icon

When I saw this through my viewfinder I thought it was the iconic buffalo image. A shot that says it all: the West, freedom, unlimited space, wild, independence. I was proud of this shot. Still am.

My pride suffered a bit of course correction, though, when I happened on this quote: "People can often mistake being in a particular geographic location for being talented." Well, yes. There is that .......... : )

What do you think about?

Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about.
~ anonymous Internet wisdom

This has been said rather more eloquently any time over the last few thousand years:

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of his thoughts.
~ James Allen

The mind is everything. What you think you become.
~ Buddha

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius

I continually think about making photographs; my life is lived in images. Therefore I'm a photographer. Reassuringly, none of these sayings require you to be good at what you think about! Becoming good has a way of coming with practice, though. ; )

What do you constantly think about? What is your life's focus?