Christmas Countdown

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

~Unknown~

Christmas Countdown

Let Us Keep Christmas
Whatever else be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day, remembering
It's poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.
~Grace Noll Crowell~

Christmas Countdown

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
~ Charles Dickens ~

Christmas Countdown

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis~

Monthly Sheep Day

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock ~Russian Proverb~

Butterflies

The butterfly counts not months but moments,
 and has time enough.
~Rabindranath Tagore~ 

Thanksgiving Countdown

Thanksgiving Countdown

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
~E.P. Powell~

Thanksgiving Countdown

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."
~Meister Eckhart~

Thanksgiving Countdown

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
~Rita Rudner~

Thanksgiving Countdown

Thanksgiving Countdown

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~

Thanksgiving Countdown

Reflect on your present blessings,

of which every man has many;

not on your past misfortunes,

of which all men have some.

~Charles Dickens~

HATS

"Fashion is a kind of communication. It's a language without words. A great hat speaks for itself."
~Anonymous~

Veteran's Day

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
~Elmer Davis~

Fashion

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
~Lord Chesterfield~

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
~Princess Diana~

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
~David Leavitt~

Owls

When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
~Lord Alfred Tennyson~

Dance

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
~Japanese Proverb~

Country Life

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.
~William Cowper~

Grumpy Girl

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Author Unknown~

Monthly Sheep Day

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
~Tiberius~

Flowers

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.
~Gerald De Nerval~

Family

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
~Desmond Tutu~

~We read to know we are not alone.~

^{~ C.S. Lewis~}

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Halloween-Eve!

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go/Back to their quiet graves below.
~Theodosia Garrison~

Halloween countdown

~ Witch and ghost make merry On this last of dear October’s days. ~Unknown~

Halloween Countdown

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween.
~Author Unknown~

Halloween countdown

Just a little witch on high
She'll tell you that your love is nigh
Your fortune on Hallowe'en when told
My secret will the witch unfold.

~Author Unknown~

Halloween Countdown

'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare~

Halloween Countdown

"There is something haunting in the light of the moon."
~Joseph Conrad~

Halloween Countdown

“A pair of shoes can change your life. Just ask Cinderella.” ~Anonymous~

Halloween Countdown

When the candles flicker
When the wind goes woo-oo
May it mean a fortune
Mighty good for you.
~Anon~

Halloween Countdown

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.
~Judith Olney~

Halloween Countdown

Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night!
~Elizabeth Akers Allen~

Halloween Countdown

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost."
~Lloyd Douglas~

October

"Just before the death of flowers,
And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."
~Author Unknown~

Halloween Countdown

When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be yours on Halloween.
~Author Unknown~

Halloween Countdown

The witches’ fly
Across the sky,
The owls go, "Who? Who? Who?"
The black cats yowl
And green ghosts howl,
"Scary Halloween to you!"
~Nina Willis Walter~

Halloween Countdown

Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodied have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
~William Motherwell~

Halloween Countdown

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
~Charles Swartz~

Halloween Countdown

~A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife~ Thomas Fuller~

Halloween countdown

Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
Virna Sheard

Halloween Countdown

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume. ~Vera Wang~

Halloween Countdown

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~

Monthly Sheep Day

David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him. ~John Fisher~

Halloween Countdown

Witches are moon-birds,

Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon. ~ Amy Lowell ~