It's about time

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Transparent

With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? ~Henry David Thoreau

Destiny

As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.
~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Heart

Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. ~Dodinsky

Clear vision

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Henry S. Haskins

Blowing in the wind

But what minutes!
Count them by sensation, and not by calendars,
and each moment is a day.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Quiet brunch

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily.
~Gwendolyn Bennett

That way
If we are facing in the right direction,
all we have to do is keep on walking.
~Buddhist Saying

Stuffed?

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. ~Epicurus

Everything in moderation, including moderation. ~Author Unknown

Relaxation

Don't just do something - sit there! ~Author Unknown

Au Revoir

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius

A dirty game

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
~Henry David Thoreau

Change to spare

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. ~Hal Borland

Is a rose?

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
~Wynn Bullock

Closely

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
~Alan Watts

Homeless pumpkins

The light is what guides you home,
the warmth is what keeps you there.
~Ellie Rodriguez

Here today

Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. ~Philip James Bailey

Missing

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
~Author Unknown

Enchanted berries

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller

Harvesting

Thoughts

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Chuang Tzŭ

The end or. . .

The beginning

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Take flight

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. ~Edwin Way Teale

The Looking Glass

Reflections

“Untilled soil, however fertile it may be,
will bear thistles and thorns;

and so it is with man's mind.”

~Saint Teresa of Avila

Living

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
~Author Unknown

Chicken

Here's looking at you

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lessons

When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

Say "Cheese"

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
~Raymond Chandler

Solar power

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard

Awakening

We become aware of the void as we fill it.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943

Exhale, relax

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~John Updike

Togetherness

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree ~Astrid Alauda

First chair

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

Alike likes

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings

Beauty

The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence...
~Phillip Pulfrey

Diva

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

Sploit
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winging it

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
~Amelia Earhart

Courage

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Anticipation

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets

Nourishment
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. ~Voltaire

Standing tall

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Surprise

April Showers??

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Impressions of Cabo 2011

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