the detail is divine

“Sit there and describe. And because the detail is divine, if you caress it into life, the world lost or ignored, the world ruined or devalued, comes to life. The little world you alone can bring into being, bit by broken bit, angles into the great world. It’s voice, your style. Or, call it what it is—your integrity.”
~ Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day

note: I’m currently reading The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl. I just finished re-reading the Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

Blue heron

note: Napa River at low tide

Two birds, one shot

note: Napa River with the 2 birds.

hello

river at low tide

no one fishing

but a blue heron

Monday is for the birds

note: photos taken at Downtown Napa Riverfront & Veterans Park

river

“There is something in the scenery of a broad river equivalent to culture and civilization… It is just

 

wide enough to interrupt the land and lead my eye and thoughts down its channel to the sea. A river is superior to a lake in its liberating influence. It has motion and indefinite length.”

~Henry Thoreau

 

 

 

Sunday afternoon walk to the river

tide flowing upstream

~a blue heron