Forest Bees

“The heart has its own laws… and the truth is… the truth is that you are the law of mine.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay

Happy Summer

“The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
“Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?”
“Yes!” whispered all the children.
“Let’s!”
― Enid Blyton

Wine Cellar Entrance

“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, no matter how virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

 

How To Dry Clothes

“There’s a beauty in birds on the wing,
That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creatures
Long for flight, but the larks above the battlefield
Are silenced by the sounds of war.
I have watched birds out at sea,
Catching the wind,
And longed to follow them,
To some safe place far from here.” 
― Charles Todd

Rocco’s Hens

“That proves you are unusual,’ returned the Scarecrow; ‘and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.” 
― L. Frank Baum

Bandana Twins

“Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.” 
― Willa Cather

Watching for Trains

“Love is a strange fact – it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.” 
― Leif Enger

Frog Pond Discoveries

“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

Ursa’s Family Drawing

“A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss–a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

Love in Black and White

“The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III