“Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in.” — Vera Nazarian … More Promise
JGGFF “Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.” — David Hume * * * Plain and Simple Beauty — Photo by Mary O’Connor
In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In … More In Flanders Fields
for all Route 91 Harvest Festival victims they were holding hands they were dancing they were singing when the shots rang out Get down! Oh, God! it happened so fast all within seconds I can’t feel my legs I never left her side I love you, Laurie. I … More Pieces of Las Vegas
“There’s something about autumn that wakes up our senses and reminds us to live…”— Author Unknown * * * Autumn Brilliance— Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” — Leo Buscaglia Blue Bottle — Photo by Jan Logozzo © 2017
“At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou * * * Tired Hydrangea — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
“What if the Invader is Beautiful” — Louise Mathias “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”—Linda Hogan * * * … More Invasion
“It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.” — Helen VanWyk “We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.” — Sigmund Freud * * * Water lily pond — Photos by Mary O’Connor © 2017
“Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * * * Monarch Butterfly — Photo by Andre.W, taken at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 