Prague by Night

Prague Square

Sailing the Vlatva River through Prague

Approaching the Charles Bridge
Old Town Prague

Haunted

Adare Manor
County Limerick, Ireland

St. Agnes Convent
Prague, Czech Republic

Melusina - Lady of the Rivers

Maigue River, County Limerick, Ireland

Can you see her?

Melusina is a figure of European legends and folklore - a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers.  

The Trees in Their Prayer

Lord, the air smells good today, 

                                                        straight from the mysteries

within the inner courts of God.

A grace like new clothes thrown across the garden, 

free medecine for everybody.

The trees in their prayer, 

the birds in praise,

the first blue violets kneeling.

Whatever came from Being 

is caught up in being, 

drunkenly forgetting the way back.

-Rumi

A Gathering of Trees
Adare, County Limerick, Ireland

A River Runs Through It

Maigue River, Adare Manor, County Limerick
©trryan May 2012

Adare Manor, County Limerick, Ireland

Sunrise on the Maigue River

River Maigue
Adare - County Limerick

Irish Spring

St. Stephens Green - Dublin, Ireland
May 4, 2012

Goreme Valley in Snow, Cappadocia

Cappadocia, Turkey
©trryan - February 2012

Among the Ruins

Angkor Wat - Siem Riep - Cambodia
©trryan - February 2010

Symbiosis

Fish Pedicure - Cambodia

Shabby Chic in New Orleans

Bush Antiques - Magazine Street
April 25, 2012

Amarilla by Morning

April in Western Oklahoma

Prairie Easter

Gloss Mountain, Major County, Western Oklahoma

Buffalo Medicine

Buffalo Woman
Curandera - Galisteo, New Mexico - May 2011
Cape Buffalo - Masai Mara, Kenya - February 2012

Buffalo:  Prayer and Abundance

Those who have a Buffalo totem must walk a sacred path, honoring every walk of life.
 You will achieve nothing without the aid of the Great Spirit
and you must be humble enough to ask for assistance and then be grateful for those gifts.    

A Buffalo totem will seek to help you establish a deep connection to Mother Earth
and it will ask you to help the endangered species of our planet.
He will bring you strength of character and an independent spirit.

It is the totem of abundance.  
Do not push or force, but follow the easiest path.
Buffalo medicine is knowing that abundance is present
when all relations are honored as sacred and when gratitude is expressed to every part of creation.
Buffalo medicine is prayer, gratitude and praise.
Praying for the needs of all creatures, for harmony and
give praise for the gifts you have already received.

Pas de Deux

Great Egret and Masai Giraffe
Photographed at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge,  Plum Island,  Massachusetts
and the Masai Mara in Kenya
August 2011 and February 2012

Splendor in the Grass

Panthera Leo
Masai Mara
February 2012

Dangerous Beauty - A Portrait in Sepia

African Elephant
Masai Mara, Kenya
Near the Border of Tanzania
February 2012

Portrait of an Old Bull Fighter

Cape Buffalo
Photographed in the Masai Mara
February 2012