"I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it." ~J.D. Salinger

Why are you so
enchanted by this world,
when a mine of gold
lies within you?

~Rumi

a walk to the Bay on a chilly March afternoon.
Brewster, Cape Cod, 2011.

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." ~Soren Kierkegaard

"If you see a whole thing -
it seems
that it's always beautiful.
Planets,
lives...
But up close
a world's all dirt and rocks.
And day to day,
life's a hard job,
you get tired,
you lose the pattern."

~Ursula Le Guin

Images taken on a walk with David
through the Cedar Swamp,
Eastham, Cape Cod.
March 2011

"For some moments in life there are no words." ~David Seltzer

"Footfalls echo
in the memory
Down the passage
which we did not take
Towards the door
we never opened"

~T.S. Eliot

Rest in peace, old friend.
Rob Gray, 1969-2011.

"The years teach much which the days never knew." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Upturned toward the sun,
eyes closed.
That color
and warmth
I see
and feel
is the soul
on fire.
If only it remained
when again my eyes opened."

~Jeb Dickerson

Chasing the light.
Cape Cod 2011

"You will always be your child's favorite toy." ~Vicki Lansky

"Think
what a better world it would be
if we all -
the whole world -
had cookies and milk
about three o’clock every afternoon
and then lay down
with our blankies for a nap."

~Robert Fulghum

wasting time on another cold
and gray winter day.
2011

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do." ~Michel de Montaigne

"I only went out for a walk
and finally concluded
to stay out
till sundown,
for going out,
I found,
was really
going in."

~John Muir

Images of Boston in winter.
January, 2011

"The future is always beginning now." ~Mark Strand

"How did it get
so late so soon?
It's night
before it's afternoon.
December is here
before it's June.
My goodness
how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?"

~Dr. Seuss

Senior Portrait Sessions by
Joanna Vaughan Photography
(images taken in Provincetown)