Rites of Spring

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Anderson

Ahhhhh!

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

New Season - New Life

Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness. Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness. ~Thomas Blackburn

In Memoriam
Otis 2001-2009

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

Destiny

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.

~Bob Marley

SoaringWhen once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

In wine there is truth

They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream

Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.
Ernest Dowson 1867 - 1900
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam [1896]