Fruit

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

~St. Basil~

School Days

"We learn not in the school but in life."

~Seneca~

Birds

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
~Charles Lindbergh~

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."

~Winston Churchill~

Monthly Sheep Day

"He tends his flock like a shepherd:
    He gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
    he gently leads those that have young."

~Isaiah 40~

Quaker Meetinghouse

"I expect to pass through this world but once.  Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it now.  Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” 

~ Stephen Grellet~

Poppies

“Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.” 

~John Keats~

Needlework

"The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary". 

 ~Mary Kurtz~

The Maypole

"Come, lasses and lads, take leave of your dads,
And away to the may-pole hie;
For every he has got him a she,
And the minstrel's standing by;"

~ANONYMOUS~

Pigs

"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

~Winston Churchill~

A Beautiful Day

It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs.

 

~Hugo Pratt~

Beauty

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” 

~Dorothy Parker~

Bathing Beauty

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

~John Donne~

Happy Birthday

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

~Oscar Wilde~

Snow White

Grumpy: Angel, ha! She's a female! And all females is poison! They're full of wicked wiles!

Bashful: What are wicked wiles?

Grumpy: I don't know, but I'm agin' 'em.

Cat

Cat Laws

• Always give generously. A small bird or rodent left on the bed tells them, I care.
• Climb your way to the top. That's why the drapes are there.
• Curiosity never killed anything except maybe a few hours.
• Find your place in the sun. Especially if it happens to be on that nice pile of warm, clean laundry.
• If you're not receiving enough attention, try knocking over several expensive antique lamps.
• Life is hard, then you nap.
• Make your mark in the world. Or at least spray in each corner.
• Never sleep alone when you can sleep on someone's face.
• Variety is the spice of life. One day ignore people, the next day annoy them.
• When eating out, think nothing of sending back your meal twenty or thirty times.
• When in doubt, cop an attitude.

Affection

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

 

~C.S.Lewis~

Roses

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.” 

~Anne Bronte~

Mother Goose Picture Book

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”

~Elizabeth Lawrence~

Buttercup

"Against her ankles as she trod, the lucky buttercups did nod."

~Jean Ingelow~

Monthly Sheep Day

A Mother's Love

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." 

~Agatha Christie~

Friends

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." 

 
  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"Stay a child while you can be a child."
~Stephen Sondheim~

Jules Verne

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”

~Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth~

Floral Beauty

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” 

~William Shakespeare~

Happy 4th!

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too."
~William Somerset Maugham~

Countdown to the 4th

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

~Thomas Jefferson~ 

Countdown to the 4th

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."

~Thomas Jefferson~

Countdown to the 4th

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

~Edward Abbey~

Scissor Man

"The door flew open, in he ran, The great, long, red-legged scissor-man."

~Heinrich Hoffman~

Octopus

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.~ 

Memorial Day

~We heal, feed, clothe, minister to, teach, educate, fight for and free more people around the world than any other country. We are Americans. God Bless our fallen soldiers. God Bless the USA.~

Monthly Sheep Day

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”


~Mahatma Gandhi~

"Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day".

~Mason Cooley~

Spring

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” 

~The Secret Garden~

~Spring has Sprung~

~"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."~

-- Claude Monet--

Prince Charming

~What happens when he's your Prince Charming but you aren't his Cinderella?~

~Unknown~

Dolls

“We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.” F.H. Bradley

~Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.~
Proverb

Space Needle

~All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.~
~Gilbert K. Chesterton~

Spring has Sprung

~Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.~

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Garden Pond

~The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~
~Hanna Rion~

Kitty Cats

~~Never feed your cat anything that clashes with the carpet. ~~

Birthday

~Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.~
Jean Paul Richter

Paris

~~In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.~~
Mark Twain

Queenly

~You have got to be a Queen to get away with a hat like that.~
~ Anita Loos~

Pink Roses

~A single rose can be my garden, a single friend my world~
Leo Buscaglia

Happy Easter to You

All I need to know I learned from the Easter Bunny!
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
• Everyone needs a friend who is all ears.
• There’s no such thing as too much candy.
• All work and no play can make you a basket case.
• A cute tail attracts a lot of attention.
• Everyone is entitled to a bad hare day.
• Let happy thoughts multiply like rabbits.
• Some body parts should be floppy.
• Keep your paws off of other people’s jelly beans.
• Good things come in small, sugar coated packages.
• The grass is always greener in someone else's basket.
• To show your true colors, you have to come out of the shell.
• The best things in life are still sweet and gooey.
May the joy of the season fill your heart. Happy Easter!