“A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” ~Henry David Thoreau "A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable." ~William Wordsworth "The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. ...
Words to Live by
The Rhodora
The Rhodora On being asked, whence is the flower. In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh ...
Gratitude
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." ~Henry Ward Beecher ...
Fiddleheads
"The young fiddlehead ferns lift up their tight fists, in the spring wind shaking them right in the face of the mountain" ~Yomono Akara ...
Apple Blossom
"Blossom of the apple trees! Mossy trunks all gnarled and hoary, Grey boughs tipped with rose-veined glory, Clustered petals soft as fleece Garlanding old apple trees! How you gleam at break of day! When the coy sun, glancing rarely, Pouts and sparkles in the pearly ...
In Time of Lilacs
"in time of lilacs who proclaimthe aim of waking is to dream,remember so(forgetting seem)" ~e.e. cummings ...
Spring
"Spring is nature’s way of saying, "Let’s party!" ~Robin Williams ...
To Look at a Flower
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” ~Georgia O'Keefe ...
At the Mouth of the Mighty Columbia
On our recent trip with my brother's family, we made an excursion one morning out to the mouth of the Columbia River. As we climbed up the viewing platform and took in the view around us, I was struck not only by the vast expanse from where we stood to the Washington shoreline, but by how profoundly steeped in history this place is. I thought of all the accounts I had read of the Lewis and Clark ...
Where we Love
"Where we love is home- home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ...