Andy Goldsworthy, Red Maple Leaves Held With Water, Ouchiyama River, Japan, 1991

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Colors of Earth

When we think of our globe from a distance, we generally visualize two colors: blue and green. Water and land. Mostly water, consequently, our planet’s nickname of the blue marble.

Traveling around the globe every 90 minutes covering millions of miles with a focused lens on our beautiful planet from 250 miles above, I’ve captured many beautiful colors beyond blue and green that showcase Earth in new and interesting ways. Some colors are indicative of nature like desert sands and weather like snow. Other colors tell stories of Earth’s climate in bright splashes of yellows and greens of pollen and muted grey tones and clouded filters of pollution.

Blue and green still remain vivid and beautiful colors on Earth from the vantage point of the International Space Station, but here are some other colors that have caught my eye from my orbital perspective.

African violet

Bahamas blues

Tropical in Africa

Yellow desert

Orange in Egypt

Red surprise 

Snow white 

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The moss growth on parts of the footpath that don't get trodden on☆

Things that made my day a better 28/5/19

-finding the dark chocolate digestives

-mist in the morning

-circles of leaves and sculptures blowing in the wind

-blueberry and chocolate cake

-mixing tea and hot chocolate (tastes wonderful!)

-the wind outside tonight

-little jars and bottles

-being in the 3rd group in a group of 3, doing 3 tasks

Carved and Stacked, Grise Fjord, Canada, 23 March 1989 by Andy Goldsworthy, 1989

The Color Of Paradise/رنگ خدا                     

There’s something eerily beautiful about Goldsworthy’s snow and ice sculptures… I can’t quite put my finger on it (just as well, as I imagine it’d get very cold). There’s a quiet serenity about them that I simply love, and have loved for many years. I’d imagine that stumbling across one of them would be like walking into a snippet of space that had bled through from another world. It is not out of place, yet it is clearly there by purpose. It's wondrous but at the same time, a little somber… None of these marvels exist anymore, having succumb to the ravages of the sun and wind, and the relentless march of time, as all things shall… 

La Fee Verte ”The Green Fairy”

“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.”