I love colors, the brighter they are the better. Anything that has bold color combinations, from lipsticks to clothes. I can't walk by without admiring.
These all of course depend on a little human intervention. However, I adore the nature that surrounds us. It's ever giving contrast of colors, in the way of wildlife, our skies and seas. They all give us variants of color that change without notice, in a blink of an eye.
I found a sonnet by the poet, Gerard Manly Hopkins, which I want to share with you today on the anniversary of his birth.
He is believed to be thanking and praising God for the creation of the world Gerard lived in. Whatever any one of us believes in, is up to us as individual humans. But, it is nice if we can stop to admire the beauty and be thankful for what is around us, in any which way we can and if we can.
Today I'm writing about the beauty I have experienced and I'm featuring some photos, in my way of thanks.
Have a great weekend people.
Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things
For skied of couple color as a brinded cow
For rose-moles all the stipple upon trout that swim
Fresh-fire coal chestnut-fall, finches' wings
Landscape plotted and pierced, fold, fallow and plough
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow, sweet, sour, adazzle, dim
Her father's-forth whose beauty is past change
Praise him.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(28 July 1844-8 June 1889)
