A continuing experiment in perception. Artwork and quotes in a non-sequentiality....

1. A short course in differential reality,

2. And a continuing experiment in photography, photo-manipulation, paint and perception.
David Boothby

3. David Boothby
“The dip of the light meant that the island itself was always left in darkness. A lighthouse is
for others; powerless to illuminate the space closest to it.” ― M.L. Steadman
Portland Headlight
Maine

4. David Boothby
“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset
outside that you should be sitting under!” C. Joy Bell C.
Wyoming sunset
Kaycee, WY.

5. David Boothby
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and
deeper shades of night.” Haruki Murakami

6. David Boothby
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living
from a small piece of land.
Old homestead,
Great Plains, SD

7. David Boothby
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn
all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be
indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never
have enough of nature.” Henry David Thoreau

8. David Boothby
French Creek is an intermittent stream located in the Black Hills region of western
South Dakota, USA. It is a tributary of the Cheyenne River.

9. David Boothby
Crow Creek Pow Wow at Fort Thompson,
South Dakota.
This is a Cultural Unity Event Welcoming
All Peoples.
Crow Creek history
Crow Creek Connection

10. David Boothby
I recall the chilly pewter sky
when we made a kite
using litter and cattails
thatched with our hopes and fears,
and fed it to the oak tree. Wells Brand

11. David Boothby
“Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life,
and every setting sun be to you as its close.” John Ruskin

12. David Boothby
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind
in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston
Granite shoreline
2 Lights in Maine

13. David Boothby
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my
vision for the people to see. Black Elk

14. David Boothby
“... or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves,
and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

15. David Boothby
“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe,
whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets,
and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.”
Henry David Thoreau
Big Horns Mountains
Wyoming

16. David Boothby
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Jane Austen
My porch

17. David Boothby
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow…

18. David Boothby
“Life can only be understood
backwards; but it must be
lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard

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High in the Montana mountains, the remnants of history fades.

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments… Jim Rohn
Bridge in
Custer State Park’
South Dakota

21. The End
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“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of
experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” Graham Greene