Leaf: "I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am ageing and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead wandering awed on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them." Annie Dillard (Yarramundi, Australia)

Rae: The sun wasn't even over the mountain when I got back from my run the other morning. There was just enough light to capture this bicycle, filled with flowers like some kind of dream. (Pai, Thailand)