The Magic of Orginary Days

Within you 

there is a stillness 

and a sanctuary 

to which you can retreat 

any time.

~ Hermann Hesse

Home Grown

from seed in our yard

they're fresh and organic

not pretty but proud

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 !!

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

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

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

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

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.

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 

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

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

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

Yellow Beach Cottage

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever 

Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.
~ Madison Julius Cawein