Dewitt Jones

Lying in hammock at the Hotel Molokai. Listen to glorious music. Full moon rising. Gratitude!

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

OK then, Behold!

The longer you stare, the better it gets.

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”― Toni Morrison

But in the meantime….

As if lit from within, this ancient Bristlecone trunk watches the sunset from high in the White Mountains of California.

From my archives - Moonrise over the West Temple, Zion National Park

When there's a pink Caddie in your driveway, who cares what the rest of the house looks like...

And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire—
clearly I'm not needed,
yet I feel myself turning
into something of inexplicable value...

Mary Oliver

Eruption of Vesuvius. (Peeling paint on abandoned car)

Happy 4th of July!!!!!

Last night, in the Palm Grove, black trunks etched themselves upon a cyan sky.

Celebrate What's Right with the World!

Magic in Venice. Art everywhere!

The Basilica di San Marco in Venice was glorious enough for any photographer.. and then the storm rolled in!..and then...and then... the birds!!!

Celebrate What's Right with the World!

As I looked through the lens I couldn't decide which was stronger: the power of pattern or the pattern of power.

"Celebrate What's Right with the World!"

"...Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It's simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”"

- Mary Oliver

Eric Alan has a new blog, "Leaving Nostalgia in the Past". Alongside an abandoned but beloved pioneer home, Eric Alan finds a meditation on the beauty of the present moment. Release any idealized conceptions of the past and, as the wilderness of memory fades, find confidence in the future by being present with this day. You won’t regret joining him there to celebrate the beauty of now.
https://www.ericalan.com/blog/leaving-nostalgia-in-the-past

The art of eucalyptus bark.

Trust the Beauty.

The magic isle of Maui.

Sometimes when I look through the lens the landscape seems like pure visual music.

(Infrared shot, Holyoke, CO)

The sheer beauty of a summer breeze!

The Zen of Ti plants at dawn.

"Celebrate What's Right with the World!"

Nature - the ultimate artist of awe and beauty!

Tide pool of ancient wooden waves in the trunk of a Bristlecone Pine Tree.

A bird sings not because it has an answer, but because it has a song! 

Walking in the forest in Molokai and what meets my eye?
A lichen lei.
How can I be so blessed.

"Celebrate What's Right with the World!"

As above, so below.

"Celebrate What's Right with the World!"

Indigo Egrets. They wrote with their wings a secret language, just beyond my grasp. I was sure that if I could decipher it, I would know how to fly.

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
- G.K. Chesterton

Eric Alan just posted a great new blog, "Wildflowers from Wildfire". Ruminating on the Oregon fires of last summer, he finds them a "humbling reminder of divergent truths. First, of how our best efforts can backfire. Second, of how initial disaster can grow into a positive". Digging deeper he finds more and more lessons to be learned from this conflagration - kinship between grief and gratitude, fire and flowers. So many insights. Stop what you are doing and read it now.

https://www.ericalan.com/blog/wildflowers-from-wildfire