The Hand beneath our Feet

'And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair' - Kahlil Gibran

Bounty of the Land

'Only when the last tree has been cut down,
Only when the last river has been poisoned,
Only when the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten'

Cree Indian Prophecy

Go Green

'We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children' - Native American Proverb

Arachnophilia

'Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught' - Honore De Balzac

Children of Gaia

'We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act' - Charles Darwin

The Earth weeps

'Dew is the earth's tears,
Shed in remembrance of the day.
Shed in longing for the light'

-Brian Troyer

Life by the drop

'See how the orient dew,
Shed from the bosom of the morn
Into the blowing roses,
Yet careless of its mansion new'

On a Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell

Memories captured in smell

'What is it about the smell of damp earth that I love so much? That faintly musty, faintly sweet smell that clings to you; seeps into your mind. Stirs…memories…'

Petals of hope

'I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds' - Robert Bridges

The Inner self

'The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge' - Meister Eckhart

The only certainty

Dead moth on a doormat

'Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave' - Joseph Hall

The Untiring Workaholics

'An Ant on the move does more than a dozing Ox' - Lao Tzu

The Silent Guardians

When fire is cried and danger is nigh,
"God and the firemen" is the people's cry;
But when 'tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

The Fireman's Journal

Wings of Fire

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough" - Rabindranath Tagore

Once Upon a Time in Kavalur

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope" - Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty is Skin Deep

Tinted Windowpane Abstract

Its a Small World

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain" - Henry David Thoreau

The Dancing Twins

A rare double rainbow over the observatory (It was one hell of a sight!!!!!)

The last light

Sunset over the sleepy woods

"Some artists transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun" - Pablo Picasso

Let there be light

Sunrise in all its glory at Kavalur


“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” - John Muir