Category: Photography

  • Backyard Springiness

    It’s coming! It’s coming!

    It’s practically here!

    The tulips have died back; the daffodils are fading. (I have photos of those over at Read Me Like a Book.) In its place, all this new loveliness. I don’t know what 90% of the flora is that we have here in our backyard, but it all seems to thrive on benign neglect, which I happily hand out in spades.

    From top:
    Who can tell me what these pink things are?
    Here they are from my kitchen window
    Unidentified plant newborns, aren’t they cute?
    Tiger Lilies of the future, lining up for duty
    I think the blue hyacinths are pretty
    This was the only in-focus shot I got of the forsythia bush, out of 21 attempts.

    Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Quotes on Happiness

    Quotes on Happiness

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    The grand essentials to happiness in this life are
    something to do, something to love,
    and something to hope for.
    -Joseph Addison

    Life is short and we have not too much time
    for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark way with us.
    Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
    -Henri Frederick Amiel

    I think you’re very nice.
    I think twinkle’s a nice word. So’s viridian.
    I knew a woman once who had an imaginary fish.
    -Neil Gaiman

    I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher;
    but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

    -Oliver Edwards