“One rose says more than the dozen.” – Wendy Craig
Tag Archive: Quotes
“So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around”
Excerpt from The Lake
– Edgar Allan Poe
“Go to the winter woods:
listen there, look, watch,
and the “dead months” will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.”
– Fiona Macleod
in Where the Forest Murmurs
I had almost forgotten all about this photo I took this summer….
“A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes,
The burnished sunbeams brightening,
From flower to flower he flies.”
– John Banister Tabb
Many summer mornings, while sitting on our lakeside deck, sipping my coffee and enjoying the quiet solitude, I could hear more often than actually see this little hummingbird. This day, I was lucky to react quickly enough to capture its silhouette against the morning sky.
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone….And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon…” – John Steinbeck
I took these two photos from the same spot on the road. One facing Northwest, towards the magnificent sunset. The other, facing Southeast, the glow of the sunset fading into dusk. What a beautiful autumn evening!
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” – J.B. Priestley
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
from Romeo & Juliet
William Shakespeare
My rose bush is blessing me with some gorgeous late blooms this September. I can hardly believe it, because after the first few flowers of Spring, it sat barren all summer. What an unexpected treat!
” Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.” – Drew Barrymore
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
In that spirit, I just had to capture my first rose of the season. It bloomed outside my bedroom window this morning. Beautiful!
I truly am a beach baby, growing up spending my summers at the cabin – endless hours playing at the beach, my skin browned and my hair bleached blonde by the sun. Summer is still my favourite season – the heat makes me feel alive!
That said, there’s something breathtaking about fall and winter. Although I hate being cold, I love the visual beauty of those seasons. I’ve never found the words to describe it, but this quote does it perfectly:
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth
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