Sleeping beauty

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Late bloomer

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine

Yin meets yang

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

Friend

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why. ~Author Unknown

Boys of Summer

Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel.
~RogerSimon, 1988

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

~Woody Allen

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw

Take five

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Harvest 2010

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven