The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~Charlotte Bronte
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The old red barn
“Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards. Old leather tack, lengths of chain, rope, and baling twine dangled from nails and rafters and draped over stall railings. Generations of pocketknives lay lost in the layers of detritus on the floor.” ~Carolyn Jourdan
Standing on thin ice
“So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!” ~Robert Browning
Unpretentious
“… A lofty place he does not love,
But sits by choice, and well at ease,
In hedges and in little trees…
and there he sings
Till all the field with pleasure rings …”
~Henry Van Dyke
Dashing through the snow
“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.” ~Margaret Bourke-White
Icicles
“Winter giveth … the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Looking out across the fields
White, blue and brown bands
Sprawling out across the view –
Smooth stripes of color.
One lonely tombstone
“Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.” ~Billy Sunday
Wild geese
… Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly,
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
~Rachel Field
Quiet reflection
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” ~Peter Drucker
walking on a country road 