Violets

~Deep violets, you liken to the kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.~

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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~