The Zen of Staring at Scenery

Here are some images from our recent trip to Sylvania, in the Michigan Upper Peninsula.

I like it most when no one comes
Preferring fallen leaves and swirling flowers for company.
-- Ikkyu

Do not follow dusty paths in search of wisdom. If you cannot find the truth where you are, where do you expect to find it?
-- Dogen

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
-- Melville



What is of all things most yielding
Can overcome that which is most hard.
-- Lao Tse



This is not a face.



A Crazy Cloud, out in the open,
Blown about madly, as wild as they come!
Who knows where this cloud will go, where the wind will still?
-- Ikkyu



I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven
Than I live to Walden even.
-- Thoreau