Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 20, Degas

Art is not what you see,
but what you make others see.
– Edward Degas

Apple Blossoms

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 19

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.

– George Cooper

Spring Blooms

My mother, when she was less than 1/2 the age I am now:

 

Happy Mother’s Day!

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 18, Charlie Chaplin

“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.  If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
– Charlie Chaplin

For no reason

Except just to be

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 17, Wilde

All art is quite useless ~ Oscar Wilde

Magnolia Lane, New York Botanical Gardens, Apr 27, 2013

Sunday quote, 2013, Week 16, W.B. Yeats

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting
for our senses to grow sharper. ~William Butler Yeats.

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 15, Pablo Neruda

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~Pablo Neruda

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 14, Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.  
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.  

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 12, Thich Nhat Hanh

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
                                                                 – Thich Nhat Hanh

Understanding The Nebula: The Cloud of Unknowing

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 10, Havel

“Hope is a condition of the soul, not a response to circumstances”

~Vaclav Havel

If trees could talk and we could understand

Sunday Quote, 2013, Week 9, Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)

Think and wonder, wonder and think ~ Dr. Seuss

Open Your Eyes! What You Will See!

Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) would have been 109 on March 2.  Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss.  Thanks for writing funny, witty and wise books that provided us with years of great reading.