Regardless of where we travel, we are always in a different ecology. In the mountains, I see how they reach into the sky and how they impact the sky my view. Quite often, I see this change as it is different than what I see at home. Change happens regardless and, when I am out of what I understand as “normal,” change appears different. For me, this is noticeable as the sun sets
Fingers reach the sky
Colours mingle with others
Day merges into night.
I took this picture several years ago on our way to Spokane. As we walked by the river, the sun set. It was a bit overcast and gray, so the colours blended together more than I am used to.
We walked and came around a back street getting another view of the mountains.
last colours dancing
this day slipping away
dark curtain sliding in place.
Rich palette in hand
Desert sky as a canvas
Nature painting masterpieces.
In early March, Kathy and I were in Phoenix. I walk every day and this was my last walk of the day. As I walked, I walked into the sunset and the sky lit up with vivid colours. I suspect being in a desert setting had something to do with it. It is hard to believe we were in a large urban setting.
I always try to remember Nature is all around me. Take care and stay well.
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About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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It really is amazing how the shades and hues constantly shift. All beautiful 🙂
Thank you Earthwalker. When we are outside our familiar ecosystem, is when we notice the differences. I used to live further north and, in June, it would only get dark for 3-4 hours.
That is one of the reasons I love going to Salt Fork Lake here. It’s just a little different depending on the weather, the season of the year or the time of the day. I never tire of its beauty.
I find there are those special places I like to travel to and hike. Some are hidden little gems and others are more hiding in plain sight.
wonderful pictures!!
Thank you Leyla. Take care and stay well.
Lovely, Ivon!
Thank you Bette. Take care and stay well.
You too, Ivon!
Love the prose, poetry and pictures, Ivon. Nature – in “person” or in pictures — is such a consolation right now. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome Cynthia. Yes, with our inability to move freely, we need to find other ways to experience nature, albeit indirectly.