“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~Edith Wharton
nature
Perky
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~Lou Holtz
Misty morn
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” ~Thomas Hood
Harvest moon
“In the days before electric lights, farmers depended on bright moonlight to extend the workday beyond sunset. It was the only way they could gather their ripening crops in time for market. The full moon closest to the autumnal equinox became the Harvest Moon, and it was always a welcome sight.” ~Dr. Tony Phillips
Brown dragonfly
“Did you know that at the time of the dinosaurs, insects could grow to be huge? Some dragonflies could be as big as a hawk.” ~Paulette Morin
Purple Pickerelweed
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Damselfly
“We’re all only fragile threads, but what a tapestry we make.” ~Jerry Ellis
September
“The golden-rod is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down…”
~Helen Hunt Jackson
Serenity
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” ~Michael Caine
Summer sky
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
walking on a country road 