But I wish to be purple

"But I wish to be purple, that small part which is bright, and makes all the rest appear graceful and beautiful. Why then do you tell me to make myself like the many? And if I do, how shall I still be purple?"
The Three Sisters, New South Wales Photo by Pete Seaward

The Three Sisters, New South Wales

Photo by Pete Seaward

Carnival Dancers  (AP photo)

Carnival Dancers 

(AP photo)

The Golan Heights  Photo by Assi Dvilanski

The Golan Heights 

Photo by Assi Dvilanski

Castle Island, Ireland Contains a castle known as MacDermott’s Castle (formerly McGreevey’s Castle) Photo by Olga Yermilova

Castle Island, Ireland

Contains a castle known as MacDermott’s Castle (formerly McGreevey’s Castle)

Photo by Olga Yermilova

Edinburgh Castle Photo by Michal Lepecki

Edinburgh Castle

Photo by Michal Lepecki

St. Cuthbert’s churchyard Photo by Dougie Johnston

St. Cuthbert’s churchyard

Photo by Dougie Johnston

Otherworldly: A volcanic eruption on the Fimmvvrpuhals mountain in Iceland as the Aurora Borealis lights up the sky.  Photo by James Appleton.

Otherworldly: A volcanic eruption on the Fimmvvrpuhals mountain in Iceland as the Aurora Borealis lights up the sky.  Photo by James Appleton.

The sun cuts under a close storm system at sunset over the bay near Husavik, northern Iceland.  Photo by James Appleton

The sun cuts under a close storm system at sunset over the bay near Husavik, northern Iceland.  Photo by James Appleton

Greek Proverb 

Greek Proverb 

peonyproject: Teddy Roosevelt’s diary entry from the day his wife, Alice, died.

peonyproject:

Teddy Roosevelt’s diary entry from the day his wife, Alice, died.

Fiery illusion: Mid-February sunsets in Yosemite National Park lights a natural firefall from Glacier Point illuminating one of the park’s lesser-known waterfalls so precisely that it resembles molten lava

Fiery illusion: Mid-February sunsets in Yosemite National Park lights a natural firefall from Glacier Point illuminating one of the park’s lesser-known waterfalls so precisely that it resembles molten lava


Ellison’s Cave, Georgia Photo by Manuel Beers

Ellison’s Cave, Georgia

Photo by Manuel Beers

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lovely

flyerizer: MERCED RIVER, YOSEMITE | coordinates: 37°20′57″N, 120°58′32″W

flyerizer:

MERCED RIVER, YOSEMITE | coordinates: 37°20′57″N, 120°58′32″W

Appenzellerland, Switzerland, coordinates 47º20’N, 09º25’E

Appenzellerland, Switzerland, coordinates 47º20’N, 09º25’E