Memories in the Mist

Light the corners of my mind

Misty water-colored memories...

We ran as if to

meet the moon!

~ Robert Frost

Tranquility

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains,

fluttering a few moments of tranquility

into the turbulent day.

~ Susan Abulhawa

Watching the Wheels

Bicycling is the nearest approximation

I know to the flight of birds.

~ Louis J. Helle, Jr.

Marlene

A daughter is just a little girl

who grows up to be

your best friend.

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

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

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