Moving On

As of May 30, 2006, my site is at: http://leaf.slpro.com/. Comments here will be turned off, but feel free to browse through my archives. Many more of my photos can of course be found on flickr. Thanks so much to everyone who has visited me here! :)

Family Outing

Family Outing
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

~George Santayana

Don't be shy

Don't be shy
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.

"One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up."

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Green Meadow

Green Meadow
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.

“The woods, the meadows and the three worlds are rendered green. The Doer of all did this in an instant.”

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

A Rusty Road

A Rusty Road
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.

"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."

~William Hazlitt

Sweet Sunlight

Sweet Sunlight
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.”

~Louisa May Alcott

Sweeping the Sky

"Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather."
~Martha Graham

Divine Harmony

"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."
~Peace Pilgrim

Heaven in a Zen Garden

"Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire
with God:
but only he who sees takes off his shoes."
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My, what a big LENS you have!

"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
~Ansel Adams

Takin' a Spin

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
~Sydney J. Harris

Let It Rain

"A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods."
~Rachel Carson

Happy Mother's Day

"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden."
~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Two Buds Just Hanging Out

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
~Elisabeth Foley

Luminous Bloom

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...
Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
~Thich Nhat Hanh

A Moment by the River

"When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears."
~Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Hold Dear Those You Love

The heart that truly loves never forgets.
~Proverb

Loving the Sun

"The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun."
~John Greenleaf Whittier

A Wee Butterfly

"Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes."
~Author Unknown

Green Lights

“Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
~Henry David Thoreau

Where Henry Stood

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived..."
~Henry David Thoreau

Wonderful Walden

"It is no dream of mine,
To ornament a line;
I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven
Than I live to Walden even.
I am its stony shore,
And the breeze that passes o'er;
In the hollow of my hand
Are its water and its sand,
And its deepest resort
Lies high in my thought."

~Henry David Thoreau

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
~Henry David Thoreau

Spring Inspiration

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
~Henry David Thoreau

The First Butterfly

"Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time."
~Deborah Chaskin

Love Is All Around

"Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words".
~Author Unknown

Nature's Tears

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
~John Vance Cheney

The Path to Peace

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
~Henry David Thoreau

May I Borrow a Blue Sky?

"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mini Spaceships

"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."
~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Happy Earth Day

"Every day is Earth Day"
~Author Unknown

Balancing Act

“No man fails who does his best.”
~Orison Swett Marden

Shimmering Bay

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."
~Isak Dinesen

Happy Easter

"It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls."

~Katherine Lee Bates

Gratitude

"Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise."

~George Herbert

Blessed Bee

"If you let the bee be, the bee will let you be."
-Unknown

Hello, Angel

"Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe."
~Eileen Elias Freeman

A Profusion of Petals

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
~Rainer Maria Rilke

In Between Dreams

“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Birds of a Feather

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight.”
~Edward Young

Fenced In

"The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in."
~Bill Copeland

Promising Green

"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go."
~Christopher Morley

A Sunday Kind of Love

"For you see, each day I love you more ...
Today more than yesterday, and less than tomorrow."
~Rosemonde Gerard

Tree Spirits Come Out At Night

"Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?"
~T.S. Eliot

Happy Itchy Furry Friday :)

"Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public."
~Tom Walsh

'Scuse me, is it furry Friday, yet?

Please excuse my lack of posts and visits, folks. It's that crazy time of year in the office, and I just can't wait for it to be Friday. I felt bad that I didn't have a treat for this furry squirrel found in the Boston Public Garden the other day. Right after this shot was taken, he was spooked by an approaching dog, and ran away as fast as squirrelly possible.

The Course of Life

"The future is always beginning now."
~Mark Strand

Forever Flowing

“Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being”
~Donald Curtis

Dreaming of Sunshine

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
~Maori Proverb