More than a red bird
January 2, 2014
Robed in vestments of love and passion, he infuses a measure of warmth and life into the cold and barren world around him. * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
Category: Nature
A snow day literally and figuratively…
December 30, 2013
falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder. ̶ Susan Orlean * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
People don’t notice…
December 26, 2013
whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ̶ Anton Chekhov * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
“The snow began to fall again,
December 19, 2013
drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.” ― Jamie McGuire * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?
December 12, 2013
And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’ ― Lewis Carroll Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
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
“Clouds come floating into my life…
November 21, 2013
no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset.” ― Rabindranath Tagore Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2013
Black is a misnomer
November 11, 2013
True to its name, this winterberry holly heralds the pending change of season with clusters of red berries. Commonly called black alder, its leaves turn black before dropping off. Its berries, however, brighten the landscape well into the winter months—assuming, that is, that the birds don’t get to them first. * * * Photo by Mary … More Black is a misnomer
Find beauty not only in the thing itself…
November 7, 2013
but in the the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. – Junichiro Tanizaki Watch the colors shift and change with your own miniature, but emblematically powerful, sweet spot. Each hand cut, fashioned, and fired necklace pendant was created through a process that combines the ancient technology of glass fusion … More Find beauty not only in the thing itself…
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