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.~