November in the midwest is a stark time. The foliage  and flowers and fruits are gone and the cold grey of winter casts a shadow over the land.Spring is emerald, summer a rainbow, autumn gold and crimson but toward the end of year things are more oft a study in greys and browns. Beauty is there but not as flamboyantly as it is in spring and summer. It is simpler, subtler.

 


I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.  - John Constable

Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. - Confucious

Beauty is eternity gazing itself in the mirror. - Khalil Gibran

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them. - David Hume

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere,  if you look for it. - H.R. Giger

I always find beauty in things that are odd or imperfect - they are much more interesting . - Marc Jacobs









To me photography is the art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an  ordinary place... I have found it has little to do with the things you see and everything with the way you see them. -  Elliot Erwitt

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.  - Ezra Pound

Every day I discover
more and more
beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire
to do everything, - Claude Monet

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