Tranquility

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains,

fluttering a few moments of tranquility

into the turbulent day.

~ Susan Abulhawa

The Magic of Orginary Days

Within you 

there is a stillness 

and a sanctuary 

to which you can retreat 

any time.

~ Hermann Hesse

A Sunflower for Stacey

Never look directly at the sun. 

Instead, look at the sunflower. 

~ Vera Nazarian

Shades of Love

I'll stay inside your shades of love,

makes one day forever.

~ Empty Trash

The Arrangement

Keep love in your heart.

A life without it is like a sunless garden

when all the flowers are dead.

~ Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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 

Morning Light

When you arise in the morning,
think of what a precious privilege it is
to be alive
- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Plein Air

Keep your face to the sunshine 

and you cannot see the shadow.
~  Helen Keller    

Flowers Wanted

The Morning Read

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning

 and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

 ~ Elbert Hubbard

A Study in Lemon

when life gives you lemons,

take a picture

Afternoon

When I am old, and comforted,
And done with this desire,
With Memory to share my bed
And Peace to share my fire,

I'll comb my hair in scalloped bands
Beneath my laundered cap,
And watch my cool and fragile hands
Lie light upon my lap.

And I will have a sprigged gown
With lace to kiss my throat;
I'll draw my curtain to the town,
And hum a purring note.

And I'll forget the way of tears,
And rock, and stir my tea.
But oh, I wish those blessed years
Were further than they be!

~ Dorothy Parker

Wake Up...

to a new day,
to a new year,
to new opportunity
to be the best yet.

 

Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled.