The Simple Wonders

(Canon Rebel Xsi 250mm, Tv, 1/1000, ISO 400)

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

Thomas Jefferson

"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

William Wordsworth, 1798

"It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street,

to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence,

the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass,

like a spark dropped from the sun."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)