Birthday Tulips

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

Rememberance

I'll wear a little poppy, as red as red can be
To show that I remember, those who fought for me.

May Flowers

Though April showers
May come your way,
They bring the flowers
That bloom in May;
And if it's raining,
Have no regrets;
Because, it isn't raining rain, you know,
It's raining violets.

(Al Jolson)

Birthday

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.  ~Hal Borland

Looking Beyond Las Vegas

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.  ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896

The Poppy

                    
                            "And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread."   - Bayard Taylor

Grand Cayman

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
Epictetus

Practicing Truth, Fearing Nothing in Cozumel

"Sittin in the morning sun,
I`ll be sittin' when the evening come,
Watching the ships roll in,
And I'll watch 'em roll away again, yeah,

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Watching the tide roll away, ouh,
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Wasting time"

Otis Redding

Jamaica, Mon!

 

"Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright"   - Bob Marley

                    
                    "Rastaman vibrations gonna cover the earth! Like the water cover the sea!"   - Bob Marley

Montego Bay

"Never a ship sails out of the bay
But carries my heart as a stowaway."
~Roselle Mercier Montgomery

Spring Flowers

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
Luther Burbank

Gateways

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
Joseph Campbell


"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before."
Mignon McLaughlin

Easter Day

See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices... ~Charles Kingsley

Going to A Go Go

Goin' to a go go
Goin' to a go go
Na na na na, yeah

Well, there's a brand new place I've found
Where people go from miles around
They come from everywhere
And if you drop in there
You might see anyone in town

Goin' to a go go, everybody's
Goin' to a go go, well, come on now
Don't you want to go, yeah -
Smokey Robinson 1965

Highway 360, Arlington, Texas

Barnwell Center

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir

Circles

"The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals." John Hartford

Reflections

"A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral."
Maynard James Keenan












"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
William M. Thackeray