You will find something more in woods than in books.
May 12, 2014
Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — St. Bernard * * * Dogwood blossoms. Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
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“I am going to try to pay attention to the spring.
May 8, 2014
“I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.” ― Ann Lamott * * * Pansies, photo by Mary O’Connor © 2013
“Nature’s free bounty and useless extravagance…
May 5, 2014
“had never appeared so fantastically beautiful as it did this spring. I had an uncomfortable suspicion that Nature had come to reconquer the earth for herself.” ― Yukio Mishima * * * Photo credit: Jan Logozzo © 2014
“…when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody’s garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I’ve been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.” — Japanese proverb
May 1, 2014
U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz said in his 98th year that all he wanted to do was write poems and be in the garden. He wrote of his tendency to brush against the flowers while walking in the seaside garden of his Provincetown home, anticipating the fragrant eloquence of their response. * * * Photo … More “…when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody’s garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I’ve been told, is to cheerfully return the smile.” — Japanese proverb
Music is a language all its own.
April 17, 2014
“Its tongue speaks through our feet, our ears, our heart, every miniscule stretch of our soul. Its voice is one of dreams, of hope. … Music is a language that is always present, if only in the blood of our veins and recesses of our memory. If we are quiet, we will hear it in … More Music is a language all its own.
The human body…
March 17, 2014
is the best work of art. — Jess C. Scott * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor of entry at 2010 Newport (RI) Flower Show, Safari — Flora & Fauna.
“I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life… it causes them to search a lot more.
March 3, 2014
“They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before.” ― Cecilia Ahern Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. – Yoshida Kenko
December 9, 2013
As if to dress the winter marsh, cattails turn their cigar heads into a white and fluffy mass of seeds, ready to drift off in the wind and build new colonies for spring. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
Keep love in your heart.
November 25, 2013
A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ― Oscar Wilde Take advantage of this special Life Is Full of Sweet Spots offer and share a spot of holiday sunshine this season. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. – Mark Twain
September 23, 2013
Handmaiden moths, with their striking colors and transparent wings, mimic venomous wasps in their body shape and the position in which they hold their wings. They are, however, harmless and beautiful creatures, day flying members of the Arctiidae or Tiger moth family—seen here performing their domestic duties in true handmaiden manner in the flower gardens … More Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. – Mark Twain
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