“What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!” — Charles Dickens oh, for peacefulness serenity and calm power of stillness * * * Calm waters, still as glass, reflect peace of the evening • Niantic Bay photo … More Serenity
“To a young heart, everything is fun.” — Charles Dickens notions of childhood pinwheels of fancied delight spontaneous fun * * * Petaled Pinwheel ~ Instrument of Fun • Wheel of petals photo by Jan Logozzo • Blog post with “Fanciful” haiku by Mary O’Connor © 2023
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens streamlets of water telling signs of departure teardrops of leaving * * * Leaving ~ Hooded Megansers take off • Watercolor painting* and “Departure” haiku poem by Mary O’Connor * painting created from photo reference by Julie Carlson
on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that … More “When scattered clouds are resting
“down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.” — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations * * * Bass Hole at Gray’s Beach, Yarmouth Port, … More “Ours was the marsh country,
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 