REYIS OF SUNSHINE

theworldwelivein:

Stand Out | Zabriskie Point, Death Valley NP, California
© Ellie Stone

Finally finished with finals Fall 2011! 
heading to the airport with my kindle filled with books & a mind reeling with thoughts. 
I had an incredible semester rife with good and bad events, and now is the time to plan and reflect on it. 

-cityoflove:

Mahabaleshwar, India

a place I will be seeing soon! : )
one thing I LOVE about mahabaleshwar is how foggy and ethereal it always looks. it makes me feel like I’m IN a dream, so different from the city life of delhi, bombay, and chennai where other members of my disjointed, fragmented family live. I’m so glad I get to see a different side to India this time around. Hopefully I’ll learn some proper Marathi or Hindi. Hopefully I can slow down for a while in the presence of my grandparents and great-grandmother. 

photographybyjustinps:

Sunset Over Seattle

Absolutely spectacular sunset yesterday night! The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport tower is visible on the horizon.
Colors are basically unedited; the sky was amazingly vibrant. 

WANT TO GOOOOO. SOOO BADLY. 

turndaroundfrown:

so i’ve been reblogging all these gorgeous pictures from europe….guess where this is? This is Portland, Oregon. MY ROOMATE FREAKING LIVES HERE. nbd. i understand better why she is so homesick.

THIS is what I live for in autumn. if it doesn’t look like this, it’s not fall! 

#newenglandreppin

theworldwelivein:

Fogbank | Bonn, Germany
©  Curnen

absolute love. 

fuckyescalifornia:

“Solitude” by Laura Tidwell | Moro Rock at Sequoia National Park, CA

WANT TO GO. SO BADLY. I need a sunrise like this so badly in my life.

even griffith would suffice. 

jayzsongwason:

forcedrhyme:

emilymcmanusphotography:

Falafel and fries | Tel Aviv, Israel

Instant reblog because one of the things I miss the most about Israel is eating falafel every single day.

This is killing meeeeeee

SOOOOO GOOOOOD.

trailhikers:

Camping Under the Stars

so beautiful. 

 

I remember my first gondola ride down the canals of Venice. The water is not the clear, beautiful expanse you think it ought to be.

Just like life isn’t that easy medium to just fall through—it is gritty and deep, and requires a lot of effort to live through thoughtfully and intentionally.

Crossing the Grand Canal of Venice requires much patience, and also the sense of dolce far niente, the feel of doing nothing/laziness. My gondola driver was yakking on his cell phone in a humdrum tone of mundane existence. Life is like that sometimes too. 

But sometimes, you are inspired to run to the Piazza del Marco, or realize that on the Bridge of Sighs—looking through at that last glimpse of the outer expanse that the prisoners saw— you understand that all this depth, grit, and muck colors our experience and enriches all the good, light, and funny things that happen to us. 

….I just looked up this location, to check if I was misremembering—I thought that the basilica was in the wrong place. and lo and behold, the photo above is  BERLIN. and this goes to show the fluidity of the human experience. we are all going through that same experience whether in italy or germany or austria or china or india or england or even in los angeles. 

prettyclever:

The Muted and Mystical Illustrations of Dadu Shin

WANT.