Below are a few random photos taken over the last couple of weeks. I hope you enjoy them.
Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. ~ Virgil
"There'll be trains of blossoms.There'll be trains of music.There'll be trains of trust, trains of golden dust.Come along and surry on sweet trains of thought. Surry down to a stoned soul picnic."~ Laura Nyro (The 5th Dimension)
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." ~ George Byron
"The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook,Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A barrel full of certainties won't roll very far." ~ Gerd de Ley
"Just an old stone house by a river, and the door without any key.Just a friendly place for a friendly face. Just an old stone house and me."~ Alec Wilder
"And then, looking down into reflection, I would see my own round face and frizzled hair against a featureless blue sweep, and think instead that the puddle was the entrance to another sky. If I stepped in there, I would drop at once, and keep on falling, on and on, into blue space." ~ Diana Gabaldon (Voyager)
“Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.” ~ Emily Carr
“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.” ~ Edward Steichen
"Wish that I were a yellow bird. I'd fly away with you.But I am not a yellow bird.So here I sit, nothin' else to do."~ Marilyn (Keith) Bergman
“It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"Light up your face with gladness.Hide every trace of sadness, Although a tear maybe ever so near.That's the time you must keep on trying. Smile - what's the use of crying?You'll find that life is still worthwhile,If you'll just smile.~ Charlie Chaplin
We weren't the only one's fishing either. Click on this very short video and you'll see this Common Tern take a nosedive upon sighting a fish. It wasn't his only catch for the day. After all, one good tern deserves another...
“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest." ~ George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
"Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together." ~ Pearl S. Buck
"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes." ~ Walter M. Schirra Sr.
"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." ~Rajneesh
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." ~ James Joyce
"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all."
"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."
"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." ~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. " ~ Elizabeth Stone
"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"My son, when you were born, you brought me happiness, as you grew, you made me laugh and brought me joy, now you are a man, and you make me proud!" ~ Catherine Pulsifer
