Autumn Door

"Even today with digital images I marvel at the magic of photography. 

To look at a subject, visualize its potential in your mind, 

then squeeze out an exposure and capture what you’ve seen to be preserved forever--on film or digitally--is instant gratification."

- Walter Chandoha

PHOTO FRIDAY

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Oct 30, 2015

This week’s challenge:

‘Signs of Autumn’.

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Woods Flower

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”
― Heinrich Heine

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A Monastery in the Forest

The park's name, Desierto de los Leones, is largely due to the Carmelite monastery situated just north of its center. Carmelite monks called their residences “deserts”. But the exact origin of “de los Leones” is not known. The first monastery complex was constructed between 1606 and 1611. By 1711, this structure had deteriorated greatly. It was demolished and a new one was built in its place adjoining just south of the original complex. By the end of the 18th century, the cold, damp weather and increasingly frequent visitors forced the monks to move their monastery to Tenancingo in 1801. The monastery was declared a national monument on 16 May 1937. The 18th-century structure has a number of areas that have been restored and opened to the public. In addition to the old monastery, the park attracts visitors for the nature that surrounds the complex. The park offers activities such as day camping, overnight camping, hiking and mountain biking.

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Hermitage Ghost

“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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Lost in Translation

“Anything  you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science,

the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.”
~Ray Bradbury

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