Wash your spirit clean!

Keep close to nature's heart...

and break clear away,

once in a while,

and climb a mountain

or spend a week in the woods.

~ John Muir

Always be on the lookout

for the presence of wonder.

~ E. B. White

September Days

By all these lovely tokens

September days are here,

With summer’s best of weather

And autumn’s best of cheer.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

Watch out!

it's a long way down

the wildflowers sway in the wind

they draw me to the edge

the sun in my eyes

the earth soft underneath my feet

one shot...but I got it! oops!

two sides

there are two sides to every fence.

is it greener on one side?

is it more fun to be on the other side?

if you just sit on it, will you ever know?

A Summer to Write Home About

the days are longest,

the sun is hottest.

bare you skin and bask in it.

live the summer while it lasts.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.  

~ Gerard de Nerval

Frolic

Is there any better display of pure joy 

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

Bouys Will Be Bouys

The little boat that could...

Vessels large may venture more, 

but little boats should keep near shore. 

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

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.

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.

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

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, 

should always be the vehicle 

of novelists and poets. 
~ Christopher Morley

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

The Way We Were

Memories,
like the corners of my mind
misty water-colored memories
of the way we were...

Thoughts for the Day

A friendly look,

a kindly smile,

one good act,

and life's worthwhile.

A merry Christmas to everybody!
       A happy New Year to all the world! 

A Magical Thing

I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.

We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
~ Oliver Herford