Wednesday, August 31, 2005

An ordinary flower . . .


An ordinary flower . . .
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true."

-Rilke

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

To be a leaf


To be a leaf
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."

-Henry David Thoreau

Monday, August 29, 2005

Still amongst a symphony of insects

"Life is all about timing . . . the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable . . . attainable. Have the patience, wait it out . . .
It's all about timing."

-Stacey Charter

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Shady spot on the pond


Shady spot on the pond
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. "

-John Burroughs

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Perspective


Perspective
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

-Buddha

Friday, August 26, 2005

Sweet, lovely rose


Sweet, lovely rose
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."

-Katharine Lee Bates

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Exhilaration


Exhilaration
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."

-John Muir

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Infinity in a drop


Infinity in a drop
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

- e.e. Cummings

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Quiet


Quiet
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

-Baba Ramdas

Monday, August 22, 2005

Good Morning!


Good Morning!
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
This was taken outside of my apartment building around 6:30 AM. I hope everyone has a great Monday!

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Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.

~John Keats

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Blue


Blue
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."

-Kay Knudsen

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Rain on a Red Leaf


Rain on a Red Leaf
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."

-Arabian Proverb

Friday, August 19, 2005

Weeping Willow


Weeping Willow
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

-Bruce Lee

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Silent Prayer


Silent Prayer
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you."

-James Dillet Freeman

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Wet Petals of Lace


Wet Petals of Lace
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Some things are very dear to me --
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the sea...
But dearer far than all surmise
Are sudden tear-drops in your eyes."

-Gwendolyn Bennett

Monday, August 15, 2005



Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Go with the flow


Go with the flow
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."

-Emmanuel Teney

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Ripening


Ripening
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, August 12, 2005

Thank heaven it's Friday!


Thank heaven it's Friday!
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting."

-George Carlin

Thursday, August 11, 2005

The very pink of perfection


The very pink of perfection
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

-May Sarton

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Bathed in Light


Bathed in Light
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"To love beauty is to see light."

-Victor Hugo

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Shadow on a Green Leaf


Shadow on a Green Leaf
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Monday, August 08, 2005

Meditation


Meditation
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."

-Sri Chinmoy

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Tree and Me


Tree and Me
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"We all shine on. . . like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."

-John Lennon

Saturday, August 06, 2005

Guided by Nature


Guided by Nature
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."

~Alfred Billings Street

Friday, August 05, 2005

Baby, you're tops


Baby, you're tops
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
Phil at the top of Mt. Eisenhower (elevation 4,760')

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

-Edmund Hillary

Thursday, August 04, 2005

One with the Air


One with the Air
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."

- Author Unknown

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Nature Speaks


Nature Speaks
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."

-Linda Hogan

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Near the gods


Near the gods
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods."

-Socrates

Monday, August 01, 2005

Nature's Peace


Nature's Peace
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."

-John Muir