Hiding their delicate bloom in heart-shaped leaves, they lift their seemingly shy heads from the forest floor, understated harbingers of spring after winter, life after death. Some, dressed in white, speak of beauty and purity both. Others, in stains of purple, pause the viewer’s soul at the edges of mourning, whispering since the days of antiquity … More Beautiful Strength
“Study nature. Love nature.” — Unknown “Stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” — Frank Lloyd Wright “Let me be as a feather, strong with a purpose, yet light at heart. Able to bend. And tho I might become frayed, able to pull myself together again.” — Anita Sams “It’s … More “Nature is the art of God.”
where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.” — Author Unknown * * * Spanish moss photo by Jan Logozzo © 2015
that memory becomes a treasure.” — Unknown “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” — Aaron Siskind * * * Photos from our family album, circa early and late 1940s, my … More “When someone you love becomes a memory,
not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” — Napoleon Hill * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” — George Washington Carver * * * Mother and child, Tanzania, Africa, photo by Mary O’Connor © 2013
keep stillness inside of you.” — Deepak Chopra * * * Egret photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” — Henry Miller “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” — Jack Ma Florida’s tabebuia trees erupt each spring for a short two to three weeks in … More “Every moment is a golden one
the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” — Kristin Armstrong * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
you will find your way home. — Rumi * * * Young Muslim girl outside her home, Stone Town, Zanzibar. Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2010
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 