Becoming Banal

Posted on February 27, 2025February 2, 2025 by Simon

“A brilliant remark is oft repeated and rapidly becomes banal.” A great painting of some river washed stones. It dates from 2011 but all of the rest of its provenance is lost. Banal... Read More

Words Seldom Seen: Osmium

Posted on November 20, 2024November 3, 2024 by Simon

Osmium Noun: Chemical Element. #76 on the periodic table, Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element. It is many times rarer than gold. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray metal. Example: R... Read More

Getting Up

Posted on November 11, 2022November 1, 2022 by Simon

“Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.” John Wagner Photo is from the Oregon Coast in 2021.... Read More

Madness

Posted on March 25, 2022March 29, 2022 by Simon

“Madness is uncommon in individuals, but in groups, parties and nations, it is the rule.” Nietzsche... Read More

How Long

Posted on January 8, 2021January 4, 2021 by Simon

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best from yourself?” Epictetus, Stoic Philosopher (circa 50-135AD) Photo is of a pair of Inukshuk along the Merced River in Yosemite f... Read More

Wisdom…

Posted on November 25, 2020November 16, 2020 by Simon

“Being intelligent has little to do with being persuasive.”... Read More

Lichen

Posted on November 21, 2019November 3, 2019 by Simon

“Lichen are Fungi that took up farming with Algae.” Dr Frank Bungartz, ASU... Read More

The Mystery Continues

Posted on November 12, 2019November 1, 2019 by Simon

In October we bushwhacked over to the structure we’d seen from the trail in September. We were able to confirmed that it is certainly a human made structure. Who made it and when is still an o... Read More

Andrew Goldsworthy

Posted on October 14, 2019September 29, 2019 by Simon

We first saw Andrew Goldsworthy’s stone sculptures at Storm King Art Center so it was a marvelous moment of serendipity when we found two of his pieces on the woodland sculpture trail from the F... Read More

Backyard Beauty

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Simon

A beautiful garden is an evolving work of art. This season the fountain pond is filled with flowering Water Hyacinths.... Read More

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Simon Burrow

Quirky thoughts from an old man.

Category: Stones, Water and Spirit