Magic World

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
~Roald Dahl

Music Sets You on Fire

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
~Charlie Parker

Blowing a Kiss

Blowing a Kiss
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.

"Friends are kisses blown to us by angels."

~Author Unknown

Enchantment

Enchantment
Originally uploaded by Lady-bug.

One of several lovely statues outside my favorite shop ~ Hope Fairy Shop in Boston.

"May your eyes be always open
May your hearts overflow
That which enchants will also protect ~~
May this you always know"

-Ted Andrews

A Fraction of Franklin

For the Macroday challenge: Money
You can see all the entries and vote here
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
~George Horace Lorimer

Circles of Life

"God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
~Timaeus of Locris

Tree Fantasy

"The world is incomprehensible. We won’t ever understand it; we won’t ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery."
~Carlos Castaneda

Made with: http://krazydad.com/makeyourown/index.php

The Whole World Belongs to You

"Earth Mother, let me show gratitude,
For the abundance you freely give,
By pledging to be a caretaker,
Respecting all things that live."

~Jamie Sams

Blowing Bubbles

“Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.”
~Hank Ketcham

Goddess of Mercy

"Life eternal is what we are, wisdom is what we possess, love is what our nature is . . . "
~ The Supreme Master Ching Hai

City Symmetry

"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

This is a variation on the "Amazing Circles" formula. This website tells you how to make them:
http://brilliantdays.com/how-to-create-amazing-circles/
It's extremely addictive! Don't say I didn't warn you.

A Graceful Gathering

"My heart knows what the wild goose knows
And I must go where the wild goose goes
Wild goose, brother goose, which is best
A wanderin' foot or a heart at rest . . ."
~From the song "Cry of the Wild Goose", composed by Terry Gilkyson

Buds in a Bubble

“One day I shall burst my buds of calm and blossom into hysteria.”
~Barbara Johnson

A New Beginning

"Teach us to delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men 'neath the sun."

~Rudyard Kipling

Phillis Wheatley

Written on the stone of which the statue rests upon:
Phillis Wheatley Ca. 1753-1784
Born in West Africa and sold as a slave from the ship “Phillis” in colonial Boston, she was a literary prodigy whose 1773 volume “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” was the first work published by an African writer in America.

“Imagination! Who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
Soaring through air to find the bright abode,
Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God,
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind:
From star to star the mental optics rove,
Measure the skies, and range the realms above.
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul.”

(From the poem “On Imagination”)

Illumination Door

“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”
~Lao Tzu

Perfectly Perched

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
~Germaine Greer
Enjoy the weekend, everyone!

Meet Watermelon Helen

She was seen yesterday in the Prudential Center in Boston, advertising the Cow Parade event this summer. The artist of this particular cow is Kate Royal.
www.cowparade.com
“All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”
~Grant Wood (American Painter)

Growing Together

"I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.”
~Leo Tolstoy

A Light on Love

“All Love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hang on to your dreams

"There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream."
~Author Unknown

Windows to the Imagination

"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
~Elizabeth Bowen

An Opening . . .

"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else."
~Tom Stoppard

Sweet Solitude

"By all means use sometimes to be alone.
Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear."
~George Herbert

What About Bob?

"Baby step to four o'clock. Baby step to four o'clock."
~ Bill Murray in the movie "What About Bob", playing character Bob Wiley

Ripples of Light

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."
~Bahá'u'lláh

Duck, duck, goose

My husband and I took a long walk to a little pond yesterday afternoon, and enjoyed watching these little domestic ducks and a goose who swam by to check us out.
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Tree

"The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love Keeps on Blossoming

“Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms
Without the aid of the seasons.”
~Kahlil Gibran

Today is my wedding anniversary ~ I've been married for 15 years to this guy. :-)

Honeyed Horizon

“It is the eye which makes the horizon.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pointing in the Right Direction

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~Buddhist Saying

What is Life?

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
~Crowfoot, Native American warrior and orator (1821-1890)

Choices . . .

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
~David Russell

Radiance

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
~Kahlil Gibran

Sea Reverie

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea."
~e.e. cummings

The Powder Point Bridge

"In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A Lovely Gaze

"We gaze
even at horses
this morn of snow.
~Basho

Beauty

Reflect on the beauty of the day.

Happy Furry Friday!

This is Lexi, the young donkey who was so eager to steal kisses (see "Gimme a Kiss" picture from last Sunday). She and I wish everyone a lovely Furry Friday, and a wonderful weekend!

The Mini Silo

Here's another view of the land surrounding "The Green Barn". These shots were taken from a little church parking lot in Lenox, Mass. I've always admired the view of the Berkshire mountains from this little spot.

"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live."
~Vita Sackville-West

Divine Devotion

"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."
~Mother Teresa

The Green Barn

"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."
~Hoosier Farmer

Step into the Light

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gimme a Kiss

"In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine."
~Author Unknown

Waving in the Wind

When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill
have to say "goodbye" for awhile to my friends here . . . my hubby is gone to California for the week, so I've decided to take this time to go visit with my family across the state.
I wish you all a wonderful week!

Simply Snowlicious

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Start of a Long Winter

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."
~Carl Reiner

My Best from 2005

I wish to thank everyone who has visited my site in the past year, especially those kind people who who have left their encouraging comments. I have met some very talented, wonderful people in the photoblogging world, for which I'm extremely grateful. Here is a mosaic of my best shots from 2005. :-)

Pine Cone Petals

"All that exists is, in a sense, the seed of what will be born from it."
~ Marcus Aurelius

Fresh

"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."
~George William Curtis