Tea for Ewe

Flower Basket

2011-11-03T08:29:00.000-07:00

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock."

~HENRY WARD BEECHER~

Monthly Sheep Day

2011-11-02T16:23:00.000-07:00

"Behold,I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. "

~Matthew 10:16~

2011-11-01T18:38:00.000-07:00

"Children reinvent your world for you".
~Anonymous~

Family Vacations

2010-08-14T13:38:00.000-07:00

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

~Marcelene Cox~

Garden seeds

2010-08-08T20:04:00.000-07:00

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies.
~Gertrude Jekyll~

Monkeys

2010-08-07T22:00:00.000-07:00

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
~Prince Charles~

Monthly Sheep Day

2010-08-05T10:19:00.000-07:00

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me or get out of my way.
~General George Patton~

Botanical Garden

2010-08-03T20:37:00.000-07:00

I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose, The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs like a bashful maid her head.
~Phoebe Cary~

Friendship Flowers

2010-07-31T15:25:00.000-07:00

In friendship's fragrant garden,
There are flowers of every hue.
Each with its own fair beauty
And its gift of joy for you.
~Anonymous~

Paris

2010-07-30T16:33:00.000-07:00

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
~Friedrich Nietzsche~

America

2010-07-28T19:22:00.000-07:00

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
~Abraham Lincoln~

Queen

2010-07-27T19:15:00.000-07:00

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
~Erasmus Darwin~

Children Playing

2010-07-26T20:31:00.000-07:00

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762~

Seashore

2010-07-25T18:57:00.000-07:00

Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours.
~Anonymous~

Dance

2010-07-24T09:15:00.000-07:00

Dancing is the poetry of the foot
~~John Dryden~

Health, Wealth, Happiness

2010-07-22T10:57:00.000-07:00

The greatest wealth is health.
~Virgil~

Sewing

2010-07-21T09:30:00.001-07:00

Buttons and patches and the cold wind blowing,
The days pass quickly when I am sewing.
~Author Unknown~

Pink Perfection

2010-07-18T13:13:00.000-07:00

"The very Pink of Perfection"
~Oliver Goldsmith~

Travel

2010-07-17T17:14:00.000-07:00

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
~St.Augustine~

Ferns

2010-07-13T17:59:00.001-07:00

I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
~Tennyson~

Childhood

2010-07-11T19:41:00.000-07:00

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
~Anonymous~

Hope

2010-07-10T16:16:00.000-07:00

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
~English Proverb~

Detectives

2010-07-08T17:35:00.000-07:00

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
~Rex Stout~

Happy 4th!

2010-07-04T16:21:00.001-07:00

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master! ~Thomas Jefferson~

Pre-4th of July

2010-07-03T17:27:00.001-07:00

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
~Thomas Jefferson~

Patriotic

2010-07-02T16:44:00.000-07:00

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood~

Home Sweet Home

2010-07-01T17:46:00.000-07:00

Peace - that was the other name for home. ~Kathleen Norris~

Saturn!

2010-06-29T08:06:00.000-07:00

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
~Mark Russell~

Patriotism

2010-06-28T08:29:00.000-07:00

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
~Irving Kristol~

Summer Sea

2010-06-26T19:35:00.000-07:00

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
~Victor Hugo~

Creativity

2010-06-25T09:14:00.000-07:00

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”
~Edward de Bono~

Friendship

2010-06-24T07:51:00.000-07:00

"Life without a friend is like death without a witness."
~Spanish Proverb~

Green Grass

2010-06-22T22:16:00.000-07:00

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
~Edna Maillart~

Vintage Japan

2010-06-21T08:35:00.000-07:00

“Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.”
~Japanese Proverb~

Summer Flowers

2010-06-19T14:42:00.000-07:00

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed
~Walt Whitman~

Cats and Milk

2010-06-16T18:35:00.000-07:00

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
~Phyllis Diller~

Friendship

2010-06-13T15:22:00.000-07:00

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.
~ Richard Bach ~

Summer Stroll

2010-06-11T09:17:00.000-07:00

Now shall I walk
or shall I ride?
"Ride," Pleasure said:
"Walk," Joy replied.
~W.H. Davies~

Monthly Sheep Day

2010-06-08T12:27:00.000-07:00

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ~Abraham Lincoln~

Full Moon

2010-06-07T14:38:00.000-07:00

I like to think the moon is there even if I'm not looking at it. ~Albert Einstein~

Home

2010-02-27T17:59:00.000-08:00

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.
~Frederick W. Robertson ~

Rose is a rose...

2010-02-24T06:18:00.000-08:00

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without a scent.
~Proverbs~

~Love~

2010-02-15T06:48:00.000-08:00

~Loved you then, love you still, always have, always will.~
~Unknown~

Monthly Sheep Day

2010-02-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

~ I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine~
Holy Bible

Christmas Countdown

2009-12-14T06:54:00.001-08:00

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

~Unknown~

Christmas Countdown

2009-12-12T16:07:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-11T16:39:00.001-08:00

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

Christmas Countdown

2009-12-09T09:26:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-30T20:34:00.001-08:00

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

Butterflies

2009-11-29T20:55:00.000-08:00


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

Thanksgiving Countdown

2009-11-24T21:27:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving Countdown

2009-11-23T15:59:00.001-08:00

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

2009-11-21T20:08:00.000-08:00

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

Thanksgiving Countdown

2009-11-20T08:01:00.001-08:00

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

Thanksgiving Countdown

2009-11-19T16:36:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving Countdown

2009-11-18T15:04:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-11-17T15:25:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-15T18:22:00.000-08:00

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

Veteran's Day

2009-11-11T21:06:00.000-08:00

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

Fashion

2009-11-10T18:24:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-09T17:33:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-08T19:10:00.000-08:00

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
~David Leavitt~

Owls

2009-11-07T20:43:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-07T06:43:00.000-08:00

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

Country Life

2009-11-06T06:14:00.000-08:00

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

Grumpy Girl

2009-11-05T06:50:00.000-08:00

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

Monthly Sheep Day

2009-11-04T06:39:00.000-08:00

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

Flowers

2009-11-03T05:39:00.001-08:00

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

Family

2009-11-02T06:08:00.001-08:00

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

2009-11-01T07:07:00.000-08:00

~We read to know we are not alone.~

^{~ C.S. Lewis~}

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T07:25:00.001-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Halloween-Eve!

2009-10-30T06:24:00.001-07:00

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

Halloween countdown

2009-10-28T05:01:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-27T07:22:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween countdown

2009-10-26T05:50:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-25T07:20:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-24T06:16:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-23T07:57:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-22T06:13:00.001-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-21T08:30:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-20T06:43:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-19T08:32:00.000-07:00

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

October

2009-10-18T06:29:00.001-07:00

"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

2009-10-17T07:41:00.001-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-16T08:19:00.001-07:00

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

2009-10-15T05:39:00.001-07:00

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

2009-10-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-13T06:57:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween countdown

2009-10-12T07:45:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-11T07:12:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-10T08:50:00.001-07:00

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

Monthly Sheep Day

2009-10-09T07:48:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-08T07:04:00.000-07:00

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

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-07T06:57:00.000-07:00

"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

2009-10-06T06:58:00.000-07:00

"Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there." ~ Steven Davidson ~

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-05T05:31:00.001-07:00

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
~Dexter Kozen~

Halloween countdown

2009-10-02T07:55:00.000-07:00

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
~ Erma Bombeck ~

Halloween Countdown

2009-10-01T06:55:00.000-07:00

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." ~Henry David Thoreau~

Inventions

2009-09-30T05:47:00.001-07:00

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. ~Tim O'Reilly~

Marionettes

2009-09-29T05:34:00.001-07:00

How ridiculous I was a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy! ~Pinocchio~