icy cold today 
“The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze”

 Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

Tomorrow, I will show you what I see in this picture with my sometimes over active imagination.
smith mountain lake 
“The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

 Pablo Picasso (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973)
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Beauty is primeval 
“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.” 
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
dreamers of the dream 
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams."  
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
Otter Creek Dam after a storm
Vantage Point 
  “It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.”  James Agee 

Best seen large
mountain stream 
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest,  or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

- Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
The flow
photographer's adventure 
“It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.” 
 James Agee (American Writer and Critic, 1909-1955)
dreamers of the dream
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams."
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
dreamers of the dream 
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams."  
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
dreamers of the dream
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams."
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
See photo in original gallery.
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