This one is going to seem weird to most of you.
My father’s death was truly beautiful. The family were all there and witnessed the moment he left this life. It was incredibly peaceful and relaxing. As an FYI, he had Alzheimers and pneumonia. As hard as it was to let him go, it was beautiful to watch the confusion and pain leave him shortly before he left us.
Most members of the animal kingdom. Cats, snakes, lizards, foxes, fruit bats, rats, mice, ferrets, weasels, salamanders, mantises, and all creatures furry, feathery, and scaly.
The sound of a train in the distance.
A lightning storm.
Dusk in a city.
A sky full of stars (no light pollution).
Puppies.
Precision flight teams like the USN Blue Angels, the RCAF Snowbirds and the USAF Thunderbirds.
Well done animation. I just can’t get enough of it. Something about the way the colors and the movement come together, combined with knowing all the work that must have gone into it, I guess.
raindrops on kittens?
bright copper mittens?
Gorgeous slabs of wood. Especially ones with beautiful chatoyance.
The color combination grey and white.
Pears. The shape of pears.
The songbirds that come to my backyard feeder, even in winter.
The mountains. The birds that ride on the mountain currents. A still mountain lake. The bears that live near the mountain lakes, and who make themselves known on occasion.
Newborn kittens. Similarly, newborn horses and cows. I sometimes wonder how many animals I’ve brought into this world, without having any idea what I’m doing. Thankfully, Mother Nature usually takes care of all the details for me, and she tells the mothers what to do. The mother animals tell me what to do. I do what Mama tells me, and somehow, we get kittens and puppies and foals and calves. I am always in awe.
Dawn on a humid Ontario morning, when the blades of grass have discrete dewdrops on them.
Cats.
I’ll add to my list, based on things in this thread:
Gnarled old trees
Eroding stone staircases
Stone ruins in general are numinous, especially if they’re overgrown. I don’t know why.
Lakes
Oceans
Deserts
Canyons
Sunrises
Sunsets
Old cathedrals
Very cool photo from a Farktography contest. SFW, I promise. http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Icy-Fence_6006b.jpg
Letterpress on thick, squishy paper. I’m having paper-gasms at Etsy today.
very nice, and perhaps another example of my previous suggestion
Chain link fence = fish scales?
