A Closer Look

Too often we pass by the beautiful, wrapped in the mediocre ramblings of our minds, and though this magical divine world is there for all to see and experience, we miss it.

This blog is devoted to elements of Nature that bear a closer look. Most of these photos were taken as I walked to the San Diego Rose Garden, slowing down to observe the wonder of trees, bark, leaves and more.

All grew a consecration and a rite. ||1.34||

Original and supernal Immanence
Of which all Nature’s process is the art,
The cosmic Worker set his secret hand
To turn this frail mud-engine to heaven-use. ||5.30||

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The persistent thrill of a transfiguring touch
Persuaded the inert black quietude
And beauty and wonder disturbed the fields of God. ||1.20||

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It was a reign of wonder and delight;
All now his bright clairaudience could receive,
A contact thrilled of mighty unknown things. ||6.38||

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The rapid footsteps of her phantasy,
Amid whose falls wonders like flowers rise,
Are surer than reason, defter than device
And swifter than Imagination’s wings. ||22.9||

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A work is done in the deep silences;
A glory and wonder of spiritual sense,
A laughter in beauty’s everlasting space
Transforming world-experience into joy,
Inhabit the mystery of the untouched gulfs;
Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us. ||47.20||

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A might is with her that makes wonders true;
The incredible is her stuff of common fact. ||50.65||

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The stunning Eucalyptus naudiniana
in the Matrimandir Gardens Park.
One can often see up to 15 colours in the bark.

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A Secrecy breathed in life’s moving act;
A covert nurse of Nature’s miracles,
It shaped life’s wonders out of Matter’s mud:
It cut the pattern of the shapes of things,
It pitched mind’s tent in the vague ignorant Vast. ||66.24||

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A close-up of the bark of Eucalyptus naudiniana

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Once more the world was made a wonder-web,
A magic’s process in a magical space,
An unintelligible miracle’s depths
Whose source is lost in the Ineffable. ||68.78||

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