GOLDEN...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.” 

― Richelle E. Goodrich

NOEL...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

"City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style

In the air there's a feeling of Christmas

Children laughing, people passing

Meeting smile after smile

And on every street corner you hear

Silver bells, silver bells 

It's Christmas time in the city

Ring-a-ling, 

Hear them ring, 

Soon it will be Christmas day

Strings of street lights, even stoplights

Blinkin' bright red and green

As the shoppers rush home with their treasures

Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch

This is Santa's big day

And above all this bustle you hear

Silver bells…"
- Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

PRIDE...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.  

- Abraham Lincoln

YELLOW...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

"We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us." 

- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

IVORY...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

"White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white." 

- G. K. Chesterton

EBONY...

Photos by Ken Marshall
College by Jim Swilley

“I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.” 

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

MAJESTY...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” 

― John Muir

SERENITY...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

"For the beauty of the earth, 

For the beauty of the skies, 

For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies, 

(Chorus) Lord of all, to thee we raise 

This our hymn of grateful praise." 

- Folliott S. Pierpoint

MIDTOWN...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time” 

― Patrick Geddes

ORANGE...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“If love were a color, it'd be orange. Not because that's a romantic color, but because it's the sweetest. If you want to know how I feel about you, I just made some juice out of it. Grab a glass— a tall one.” 

― Jarod Kintz

GREEN...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh." 

- Rumi

SPECTACLE...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” 

— Albert Einstein

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AUTUMN...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” 

― Albert Camus

RISE...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.”

—Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, in Shanksville, Pa.

VESSELS...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not." 

- James Taylor

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PURPLE...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” 
― Alice Walker (Shug Avery to Celie in 'The Color Purple')

RIVERS...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything. 

- Henry David Thoreau

BOOKENDS...

SUNRISE AND SUNSET
Ken took these two shots on the same day on the same road
(L) Going East in the AM
(R) Going West in the PM

“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.” 

- Jo Walton

SCARLET...

Photos by Ken Marshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“I hear the question upon your lips: What is it to be a colour? Colour is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness. Because I’ve listened to souls whispering – like the susurrus of the wind – from book to book and object to object for tens or thousands of years, allow me to say that my touch resembles the touch of angels. Part of me, the serious half, calls out to your vision while the mirthful half soars through the air with your glances. I’m so fortunate to be red! I’m fiery. I’m strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted. I do not conceal myself: For me, delicacy manifests itself neither in weakness nor in subtlety, but through determination and will. So, I draw attention to myself. I’m not afraid of other colours, shadows, crowds or even of loneliness. How wonderful it is to cover a surface that awaits me with my own victorious being! Wherever I’m spread, I see eyes shine, passions increase, eyebrows rise and heartbeats quicken. Behold how wonderful it is to live! Behold how wonderful to see. I am everywhere. Life begins with and returns to me. Have faith in what I tell you.” 

― Orhan Pamuk

FALLS...

Photos by Ken Marhshall
Collage by Jim Swilley

“There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.” 

― Virginia Alison