"We'll always have Rome..."

"There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. 

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Vatican Museum ~ Rome, Italy

"...it will be a work without equal in all the world..."Michelangelo

St. Peter's Basilica ~ Citta del Vaticano

"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

Rome, Italy

"Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work."
— Modigliani

Flores de Apaneca, El Salvador

Old Spanish Door.  Suchitoto ~ El Salvador

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Ansel Adams

Spanish Tile Roof  ~ Suchitoto, El Salvador

"She was the lady and mistress of an empire of dust and cobwebs that could be saved only by the strength of invincible love. She was not intimidated because she felt herself inspired by an exalted courage that would have enabled her to move the world"

From: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

El Exilio

Suchitoto ~ El Salvador

Dias para permanecer cabizbajo en la soledad de antiguas ruinas que surgen de la tierra viva y llena de hierbas de las ultimas lluvias.

Dias espinosos en que duele la alegria de los seres amados y la mirada reclama su pozo oscuro.

Dias en que no se soporta el espectaculo de la tempestad energica del mar que solto sus ligaduras de la profundidad que lo detiene.

Dias abiertos al angel de la conmiseracion para que alce vuelo el sollozo como una golondrina a quien nadie mirara.

Dias de color lento en que se desdibujan las facciones del amor.

Roque Dalton

Floribunda

Telares.   Concepcion de Ataco ~ El Salvador

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. ~William James

"In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration."
— Tegla Loroupe

"Do whatever you do intensely."
— Robert Henri

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

Cathedral ~ Santa Ana, El Salvador

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."