Along the Lewis Creek Trail, Sierra National Forest

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy. But if we detach its movements from that ultimate idea, if we do not see the infinite rest and only see the infinite motion, then existence appears to us a monstrous evil., impetuously rushing towards an unending aimlessness. Rabindranath Tagore

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. Horace Mann

Love is eternal – the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one’s work. Vincent Van Gogh

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble,
the call upon the great within us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression
upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
Orison Sweet Marden

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.William Howard Stein

(this photo and the previous were taken at Nojoqui Falls, Santa Barbara County)

Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

When you come to the edge of all the light you have known, and are about to step out into darkness, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen; There will be something to stand on, or you will be taught to fly. from Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

The show was a success! I will probably go back and take some more photos of the interior of the restaraunt, but these were taken by a friend. The turnout was pretty good (and I even sold 2 pieces!), but the really good thing is that the show will be up till March 2nd, so there will be lots of traffic for the lunch and dinner crowd.

Well, the day is finally here – today is the opening reception for my first exhibit! Some, but not all of my IcePiks will be in the show (visit www.southlenz.com to see all of them) Please click on these to enlarge and read. I am not web-savvy, so this was the best I could do. These were made from the printed pieces. Anyone who’s in the area, please stop by utopia!

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. E. H. Chapin