"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." ~Socrates

“If 

you would attain 

to what you are not yet, 

you must always be displeased 

by what you are.  

For 

where you are pleased with yourself 

there you have remained.  

Keep adding, 

keep walking, 

keep 

advancing.” 

~Saint Augustine

Autumn on Cape Cod by
Joanna Vaughan Photography

2011

"Follow your inner moonlight." ~A. Ginsberg

"The future

is called "perhaps"

which is the only possible thing to call the future.  

And 

the only important thing 

is not to allow that 

to scare you. "

~Tennessee Williams

  Portrait sessions by

Joanna Vaughan Photography

2011

"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most." ~John Ruskin

 "Art 

is a shadow 

of what a person is thinking... 

a small glimpse 

of what they hold 

inside.  

Little secrets, 

regrets, 

joys... 

every line 

has its own meaning."

~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Rainy day paintings by my 4 year old artist.

September 2011

"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are". ~Joan Didion

"The torment of precautions 

often exceeds the dangers 

to be avoided.  

It is sometimes better 

to abandon one's self 

to destiny." 

~Napoleon Bonaparte

Images during Hurricane Irene in Chatham.

Cape Cod 2011

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." ~Jonathan Swift

"The substance of the winds

is too thin 

for human eyes, 

their written language 

is too difficult 

for human 

minds,

and their spoken language 

mostly 

too faint 

for the ears." 

~John Muir

 Fog and calm before the storm at Boat Meadow Beach

and Rock Harbor. Hurricane Irene.

Cape Cod 2011

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." ~Marcus Aurelius Antonius

"I do not know what I may appear 

to the world;

but 

to myself 

I seem to have been only like a boy 

playing on the sea-shore, 

and diverting myself in 

now 

and then 

finding a smoother pebble 

or a prettier shell 

than ordinary, 

while the great ocean of truth 

lay all undiscovered 

before me." 

 

~Isaac Newton

Chasing twilight in Chatham and Brewster.

Paine's Creek Beach and Stage Harbor.

Cape Cod 2011

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." ~Tuli Kupferberg

 Far clouds 

of feathery gold,
Shaded with deepest purple, 

gleam
Like islands 

on a 

dark 

blue sea.
 

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Catching the sunset

Saint's Landing, Brewster

Cape Cod, 2011