"To conceive of any natural object with a total apprehension, I must for the thousandth time approach it as something totally strange . . .
"You must be aware that NO THING is what you have taken it to be . . .
"What infinite leisure it requires - as of a lifetime, to appreciate a single phenomenon! You must camp down beside it as for life - having reached your land of promise - and give yourself wholly to it."
Henry David Thoreau
As you may have guessed by now, I cannot get enough of this leaf glowing in a Canyonlands slot canyon. During my retreat, I spent about forty-five minutes photographing it in every possible light-angle, utterly fascinated by the gradation of color and shape that revealed itself to my lens. For me, this is a lesson that can readily be transferred to the seemingly mundane events of daily life :)
Photo: Red-osier Dogwood leaf glowing in The Joint, Needles District, Canyonlands National Park, UT, November 28, 2014
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