“It’s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes.” — Robert K. Cooper * * * Weathervane in Little Compton, RI — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
“You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.”— Emlyn Chand * * * Just a baby — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
“I just finished hanging Casey’s portrait and the more I look at it, the more real he looks! It seems as if he is actually going to jump right out into the living room!” — Carol Giuliano Meet Casey, retired Greyhound athlete. Now eight years old, Casey came to Connecticut from a Florida racetrack following … More Meet Casey
“It’s hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn’t own water skis or a snorkel.”—Bill Vaughn * * * Chapman Mill Pond, Westbrook, Ct. — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.” — Luciano Pavarotti * * * Monarch Butterfly feeding on decomposing banana — Photo by Jan Logozzo © 2017; taken at the Butterfly House, Cape Cod Museum … More Fine Dining
“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
The hummer is a precious gift. Lighter than an ounce with feathers, gowned in glittering and iridescent robe, rubies red at its neck, it hovers and hums through life. Some call them sacred as they pause above fragrant altars of time, sipping the essence of life through the straw of their long beaks, … More To hum
“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.” — Saint Francis de Sales * * * Swallows on Piling — photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
Just to look─ to look at the sea, to follow its comings and goings, is to see beyond memory, beyond life, before and after the beginning of death. Just to think─ to think about the sea, to ponder its waves, is to find there is more, more than souls can account for, than every … More That Is Enough
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” — Helen Keller * * * Figureheads, Mystic Seaport (Mystic, CT) Exhibit — Photo by Mary O’Connor
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 