“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
country road
Leaves of a summer gone by
…Beauties of yesterdays
That once gave so much
Now in period of grays
Can still our heart touch
~Peter S. Quinn
Aging well
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” ~John Burroughs
Progress
“Never discourage anyone… who makes continual progress, no matter how slow.” ~Plato
Of Course, Of Course!
“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” ~Louis Armstrong
Fallen leaves
“The time of the falling leaves has come again. Once more in our morning walk we tread upon carpets of gold and crimson, of brown and bronze, woven by the winds or the rains out of these delicate textures while we slept.” ~John Burroughs
Blur of red wings
“… the difference between good and evil… It’s very thin, it’s made of something very flimsy… and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.” ~Harlan Coben
Ready for harvest
It’s fun to watch the soybean harvest, as dusty as it may be.
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in Autumn.” ~B. C. Forbes
Bluebird
“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Fields of white
“But I tell you to open your eyes and look to the field—they are gleaming white, all ready for the harvest!” John 4:35
walking on a country road 