"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains." ~Walt Whitman

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible”
~ Oscar Wilde

A portrait! What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound. ~ Charles Baudelaire - 1859

“If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.” ~Anon

The Island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands has become a second home for me. With it's year round good weather I love to wander the town and streets capturing those who live here and those who visit.