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