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~