the sun also rises

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou

Who gazest ever true and tender

On the sun's revolving splendour.

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Life is just a bowl of cherries!

Life is just a bowl of cherries

Don't take it serious, 

Life's too mysterious

You work, 

You save,

You worry so

But you can't take your dough 

When you go, go, go

Happy Memorial Day

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,
but in striving that our country
shall be righteous as well as strong.
Happy Memorial Day !!

Route 66 Arizona Style

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

~ Yogi Berra

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.  

~ Gerard de Nerval

Shades of Love

I'll stay inside your shades of love,

makes one day forever.

~ Empty Trash

shoot while they last

been waiting for spring

what took it so long to show

trees bloom so briefly

It's really here!

it's really here

it's really spring, that is

in full bloom glory

The Arrangement

Keep love in your heart.

A life without it is like a sunless garden

when all the flowers are dead.

~ Oscar Wilde

Make that a rice bowl to go please.

Highs in the 70s, one day, blizzard the next. That's the way it's been this Spring in much of the U.S.

Frolic

Is there any better display of pure joy 

than a dog running full tilt just for the fun of it.

Daisy Galore

Daisy Galore was born in the Spring.

She worshiped the sun

and made the birds sing.

Bouys Will Be Bouys

Just between you, me and the...

The little boat that could...

Vessels large may venture more, 

but little boats should keep near shore. 

~ Benjamin Franklin

Soon

so soon Spring will come 

flowers will begin to bud 

then bloom in the sun

Mickey

My sunshine doesn't come from the skies,
It comes from the love in my dog's eyes.

On the Dunes

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, 
hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are
quickly hidden by those that follow after.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Blowing in the Wind

A single rose can be my garden... 

a single friend, my world.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Follow the sun

At the beach life is different.

Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment.

We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.

Breeze blows all about

as sun dances in and out,

dazzling bright throughout.

When it's over...

While the hygenist scratched away at my teeth, I watched through the window
 as the wind blew this tree around in the afternoon sunlight. 
Like a Christmas tree, when it's all over, losing it's decorations, one by one.

Winter Window

Someone painted pictures on my

Windowpane last night --

Willow trees with trailing boughs

And flowers, frosty white,

And lovely crystal butterflies;

But when the morning sun

Touched them with its golden beams,

They vanished one by one.

~ Helen Bayley Davis, Jack Frost

Winter in Big Bear

Winter came down to our home one night 

Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,

And we, we were children once again. 

~ Bill Morgan, Jr.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, 

For Christmas comes but once a year.

Stacked

We do not see things as they are...

we see things as we are.

~ Anais Win

Serendipity

Find something good without looking for it!

Joy is portable,

bring it with you.

One and Only

Remember if people talk behind your back, 

it only means you are two steps ahead.

~ Fannie Flagg, from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Happy Halloween

On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park....
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com

Sweet Nostalgia

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: 

you find the present tense, but the past perfect! 

~ Owens Lee Pomeroy

Look out!

When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.
~ Wayne Dyer

Home Grown

What we plant in the soil of contemplation,

 we shall reap in the harvest of action.
~  Meister Eckhart

Let in the light!

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
 ~  Aaron Rose

Another Summer....Gone

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.
~ L.M. Montgomery

Smile!

Happy looks good on you.

Rain on the Window

Well, I'm home...back from my trip to Colorado and here I am posting the very last photo I took. This was taken from the kitchen window of our cabin in Big Bear. The first time I'd seen rain since I left California, two weeks earlier. Thanks to the terrible drought, much of Colorado was looking like high desert with so much sage popping up where tall green grass usually grows. I just hope that the jet stream sent this much needed moisture east to my second favorite state.

Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun

 from which we get sunshine when dark, 

somber skies blanket our thoughts. 
~ Dodinsky

Strawberries in a Turquoise Bowl

When is a cucumber like a strawberry?
When one is in a pickle and the other is in a jam.

Just another bikes-at-the-beach photo...

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, 

should always be the vehicle 

of novelists and poets. 
~ Christopher Morley

Summer Breeze

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, 
and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  

A few of those days and you can become drunk 

with the belief that all's right with the world.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable 

Go with the flow

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on  dialogues with him 

through the graceful bending of their stems

 and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms.  

Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. 
~ Auguste Rodin

Let's Go Surfing

Surfing, alone among sports, generates laughter at its very suggestion, 

and this is because it turns not a skill into an art, 

but an inexplicable and useless urge into a vital way of life.
~ Matt Warshaw

life is a wave...

your attitude is your surfboard
stay stoked and aim for the light!

I like to ride my bike!

i like to ride my bike
on the road,
to the beach,
to the sea,
to wherever 
it takes me.

A Summer Place

I wonder what it would be like

 to live in a world

 where it was always June.
~  L. M. Montgomery

Summer Vacation

We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, 

the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. 
~ Erma Bombeck