Maverick Mist

Cinco de Mayo flamingos ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on May 5, 2017

Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography. Tagged: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Cinco de Mayo, Flamingos, Moctezuma, Pink Flamingos, Ricki Lee Jones, Yucatan.

"Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the soldier who wrote an eyewitness account of Hernan Cortes’ campaign to conquer Mexico in 1519-1521, reported seeing flamingos in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan where they were kept in an aviary for Emperor Moctezuma’s pleasure. Nowadays, habitat destruction, the draining of wetlands and pollution have caused a decline in flamingo numbers throughout the Caribbean, placing the bird on the endangered species list."  [Source]

🌮
The name Flamingo comes from Spanish flamenco, “as in the color of flame”.

WPC: Danger

Posted by Maverick ~ on May 4, 2017

Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge. Tagged: Alaska, Danger, Doro Pesch, DPchallenge, Henry David Thoreau, postaday, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Weekly Photo Challenge.

“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.” — Henry David Thoreau

“As soon as there is life there is danger.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekly Photo Challenge: Danger

I come from all places…

Posted by Maverick ~ on May 3, 2017

Posted in: Flowers, Music, Photography. Tagged: Guantanamera, Jose Marti, pete seeger, Spider orchids.

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.  — Jose Marti

A Lion ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on May 2, 2017

Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography. Tagged: heart, Lion, Listen to the Lion, Turkish, Van Morrison.

20170414-img_0890 💛 There lies a lion in every heart. 💛 —Turkish proverb

🦁

May Day ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on May 1, 2017

Posted in: Art, Flowers, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Dogwoods, Dorothy Parker, labor, May Day, My Girl, Spring, Temptations, Verse for a Certain Dog.

Verse For a Certain Dog 
 (excerpt)
  by Dorothy Parker

 Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes,
  Dear little friend of mine, I never knew.
  All-innocent are you, and yet all-wise.
  (For Heaven's sake, stop worrying that shoe!)
  You look about, and all you see is fair;
  This mighty globe was made for you alone.
  Of all the thunderous ages, you're the heir.
  (Get off the pillow with that dirty bone!)

A skeptic world you face with steady gaze;
  High in young pride you hold your noble head,
  Gayly you meet the rush of roaring days.
  (Must you eat puppy biscuit on the bed?)
  Lance-like your courage, gleaming swift and strong,
  Yours the white rapture of a winged soul,
  Yours is a spirit like a Mayday song.

20170423-IMG_0111-Edit-Edit copy_edited-1

The Unknown God

Posted by Maverick ~ on April 30, 2017

Posted in: Flowers, Music, Nature, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Aimee Mann, dianthus firewitch, George William Russell, hummingbird clearwing moth, The Moth, The Unknown God.

Far up the dim twilight fluttered
 Moth-wings of vapour and flame:
 The lights danced over the mountains,
 Star after star they came.

The lights grew thicker unheeded,
 For silent and still were we;
 Our hearts were drunk with a beauty
 Our eyes could never see.

~ AE ~

The Monkees ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on April 29, 2017

Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography. Tagged: Buddha, chimpanzees, The Monkees, trees.

“Just as a monkey roaming through the forest grabs hold of one branch, lets that go and grabs another, then lets go and grabs still another, so too that which is called “mind” and “mentality” and “consciousness” arises as one thing and ceases as another by day and by night.” – Buddha

🐒

WPC: Wanderlust

Posted by Maverick ~ on April 28, 2017

Posted in: Inspiration, Music, Nature, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge. Tagged: Anatole France, Charlotte Eriksson, DPchallenge, I Will Lead You Home, postaday, The Glass Child, Wanderlust, Weekly Photo Challenge.

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination.
I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps