Oklahoma Skies ~ USA

"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

Art from El Salvador, inspired by Fernando Llort

"This volcano-laden, dazzling land of El Salvador is an inexhaustible fountain of bright, warm and lively colors. A world not of faint colors, veiled by stained glass; not glazed transparencies, tormented by the midday sun, but rather the triumph of colors... a symbol of life!" 

Fernando Llort

Painted Wall inspired by Fernando Llort.  Las Palmas ~ El Salvador

Wichita Mountains, OK ~ USA

My Daughter

"...all was enchantment."

El Salvador

In the early sixteenth century, the Spanish conquistadors ventured into ports to extend their dominion to the area. They called the land "(Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, El Salvador Del Mundo)" ("Province Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Savior Of The World"), which was subsequently abbreviated to El Salvador.

Luna

...quien bajara la Luna para que juguemos?
Alejandro Sanz

Texas ~ USA

"Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

Country Road ~ Texas

Ancianos de mi Tierra


Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

Ancianos de mi Tierra


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
 ~Aldous Huxley

El Salvador

"...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known."
— Irving Stone
(The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo)

Los Planes de Renderos, El Salvador

bamboo (bam'boo)

noun

a giant woody grass that grows chiefly in the tropics, where it is widely cultivated.

Chalatenango, El Salvador

Let every rock cry out, let every knee bow down. You opened up my heart to wonder....

In wonder~ Newsboys

Solitude

I have a house where I go
When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go
Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go,
Where nobody ever says "No";
Where no one says anything - so
There is no one but me.


A.A. Milne
(The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh)

Sonsonate,  El Salvador

"Que ha hecho lo que existe para llamar mi atencion..."

 Song by Jesus Adrian Romero

 Chalatenango ~ El Salvador

"Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place."

 Elliot Erwitt

Niños de mi Tierra

The photographer of today is often left with the feeling that there is nowwhere to go. He is lost; he is confused; he is bewildered. Accustomed to discovery, now suddenly he is obliged to interpret... Thus the spectacular is cherished above the meaningful, the frenzied above the

quiet, the unique above the potent. The familiar is made strange, unfamiliar grotesque...

Ancianos de mi Tierra

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? 

Harriet Beecher Stowe