From the Faraway, Nearby

Haunted

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:07:00 +0000

Adare Manor
County Limerick, Ireland

St. Agnes Convent
Prague, Czech Republic

Melusina - Lady of the Rivers

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:51:00 +0000

Maigue River, County Limerick, Ireland

Can you see her?

Melusina is a figure of European legends and folklore - a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers.

The Trees in Their Prayer

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:35:00 +0000

Lord, the air smells good today,

straight from the mysteries

within the inner courts of God.

A grace like new clothes thrown across the garden,

free medecine for everybody.

The trees in their prayer,

the birds in praise,

the first blue violets kneeling.

Whatever came from Being

is caught up in being,

drunkenly forgetting the way back.

-Rumi

A Gathering of Trees
Adare, County Limerick, Ireland

A River Runs Through It

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:57:00 +0000

Maigue River, Adare Manor, County Limerick
©trryan May 2012

Adare Manor, County Limerick, Ireland

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:31:00 +0000

Sunrise on the Maigue River

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:00 +0000

River Maigue
Adare - County Limerick

Irish Spring

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:30:00 +0000

St. Stephens Green - Dublin, Ireland
May 4, 2012

Goreme Valley in Snow, Cappadocia

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Cappadocia, Turkey
©trryan - February 2012

Among the Ruins

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Angkor Wat - Siem Riep - Cambodia
©trryan - February 2010

Symbiosis

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:37:00 +0000

Fish Pedicure - Cambodia

Shabby Chic in New Orleans

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:41:00 +0000

Bush Antiques - Magazine Street
April 25, 2012

Amarilla by Morning

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:34:00 +0000

April in Western Oklahoma

Prairie Easter

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:33:00 +0000

Gloss Mountain, Major County, Western Oklahoma

Buffalo Medicine

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:44:00 +0000

Buffalo Woman
Curandera - Galisteo, New Mexico - May 2011
Cape Buffalo - Masai Mara, Kenya - February 2012

Buffalo: Prayer and Abundance

Those who have a Buffalo totem must walk a sacred path, honoring every walk of life.
You will achieve nothing without the aid of the Great Spirit
and you must be humble enough to ask for assistance and then be grateful for those gifts.

A Buffalo totem will seek to help you establish a deep connection to Mother Earth
and it will ask you to help the endangered species of our planet.
He will bring you strength of character and an independent spirit.

It is the totem of abundance.
Do not push or force, but follow the easiest path.
Buffalo medicine is knowing that abundance is present
when all relations are honored as sacred and when gratitude is expressed to every part of creation.
Buffalo medicine is prayer, gratitude and praise.
Praying for the needs of all creatures, for harmony and
give praise for the gifts you have already received.

Pas de Deux

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:49:00 +0000

Great Egret and Masai Giraffe
Photographed at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts
and the Masai Mara in Kenya
August 2011 and February 2012

Splendor in the Grass

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:45:00 +0000

Panthera Leo
Masai Mara
February 2012

Dangerous Beauty - A Portrait in Sepia

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:53:00 +0000

African Elephant
Masai Mara, Kenya
Near the Border of Tanzania
February 2012

Portrait of an Old Bull Fighter

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:13:00 +0000

Cape Buffalo
Photographed in the Masai Mara
February 2012

Morning at Angkor Wat

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:47:00 +0000

Angkor Wat, Siem Riep, Cambodia
February 2009

Fist Full of Glitter in the Air

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:18:00 +0000

Cappadocia in Snowstorm
Goreme Valley, Central Turkey
UNESCO World Heritage Site
February 2012

Little House on the Oklahoma Prairie

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:51:00 +0000

Outside of Great Salt Plains State Park
Near Jet, Oklahoma
November 2011

I Dream of Africa

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:36:00 +0000

Dreaming in the Great Plains
a merge of Masai Mara, Kenya and Badlands, South Dakota
August 2011 and February 2012

Self Portrait with Dragonfly

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:27:00 +0000

Self-Portrait with Dragonfly
Dragonfly photo taken at Niobrara Scenic River - Valentine, Nebraska
Sunset photo taken at Badlands National Park - South Dakota
Merged using Blend

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment,

while I was hoeing in a village garden,

and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance

than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

Birds of the Masai Mara

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:39:00 +0000

Photographed in the Masai Mara
Kenya, February 2012

Morning Commute - Lome, Togo

noreply@blogger.com (T.R. Ryan) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:08:00 +0000

Lome, Togo
January 2012