Touching Earth

Shhh! Can you hear that?
Is it a bee or a bird or the opening of tulips?

"-and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair."
Kahlil Gibran

Are you a geese seeker or a bayou dreamer?

"Everything in everybody's life is significant. 
And everybody is alert, watching for the meaning."
Tom Wolfe

When we find our very own safe places, 
there's a certain remembrance 
that always brings us back 
and allows for us to keep track
and opens awareness for other places
as well.
Me

There's so much mindfulness in alone time. 

Hello new stranger.

The earth gives us flowers, 
sunshine and rain.
Oceans and lakes to sail and ground to cover-
but the Girls Scouts of America offer cookies!

My favorite thin mint girl scout!
Isn't she sweet!

I hope you all enjoyed your Mother's Day gatherings!
If you look closely you'll see all the mothers put fairy gardens together!

Fairy gardening, come each new spring, it's what we ache to do.

"Each fairy breath of summer
as it blows with loveliness
inspires the blushing rose."

Such a delight!

Enjoy your earth touchings,

 and maybe there's a fairy garden in your future too!

Take good care of you.

What Did You Say My Sweet Pup

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

Featuring an array of critters!

"The principle of true art is not to portray but to evoke."
Jerzy Kosinski

This kid loves art and his dragons so much

 that this year he became a part of his art.

"Art enables us to find ourselves and

lose ourselves at the same time."

Thomas Merton

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

Anatole France 

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

Martin Buber 

These eyes, are looking at YOU!

Stay away big bad dog! You'll never catch me up here!

"When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as 'animals'

yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity."

Anthony Douglas Williams

Squirrel? Do I smell SQUIRREL!

"All real living is meeting."

Martin Buber

Yes, as a matter of fact, my Mommy put these silly bows in my hair!

An artist's true reward is to be enjoyed and evoke something
 you quite possibly never felt or will ever feel again. 

"One cannot in the nature of things 

expect a little tree that has been turned into a club

to put forth leaves."

Martin Buber

Here, this is for you!

"If the path be beautiful,

let us not ask where it leads."

Anatole France

In Minnesota this year it's
May showers are bringing up blossoms one by one!

"When the owl sings, the night is silent."
Charles de Leusse

Enjoy your day, and take good care of you.

Life is Like

Life is like
a delicious meal waiting to be devoured.
One bite at a time.

Wayzata, Minnesota


"In his blue gardens men and girls came
and went like moths among the whisperings
and the champagne and the stars."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Minnesota boy, born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
Hans Christian Anderson

A visit to this Bad Manor must wait until August but 
we could journey to the haunts and avenues of F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul. 


"You'll understand why storms are named after people."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

But do remember,

"Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't."
Bill Hybels
and "Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion."

Life is like a novel.

It's filled with suspense.

You have no idea what is going to happen

until you turn the page.

Sidney Seldon

"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."

George Orwell

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination.

They open up windows to the world 

to inspire us to explore and achieve,

and contribute to improving our quality of life.

Libraries change lives for the better.

Sidney Seldon

Libraries offer the chance of making new friends too.

Yearning for more. 

Do you ever have this kind of day?

Where you're forever learning and changing

and yet sometimes, 

it feels like everything stays the same,

and yet it's different.

I woof you all!
To all dog mothers here
Happy Mother's Day from your 4-legged child.
You're the best ever.
P.S. The cat agrees! 

After my mother passed away we've gone as a family to this Susan G. Komen day Race for the Cure, but it's not the same any more with my daughter and family moving to Alabama.

Diane Keaton puts love into perspective.

"That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love
other than to feel it's comings and goings
and be grateful."
Sometimes,
"This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough.
Half empty and half full."

Shiver me timbers!

" Avast Ye. YARRRR! 

How do pirates know that they are pirates?

They think, so they ARRRR!

"Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind."
Francesca Lia Block

Just when you thought your snowman was laughing,
turns out he was only smiling. Next best thing.

Did you know "Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky."
Diane Keaton
Think about that!

Pun of the day.

What's an English teacher's favorite cereal?
The Grapes-Nuts of Wrath


Where do used space shuttles end up?

Huntsville, Alabama


Space Shuttle Paradise?

My mother always believed Hardware Stores were paradise. If we visited a small town she'd always spot their hardware store and it'd be a must to see. Her first stop, the kitchen goods department.

This Huntsville hardware store is not
a woman's paradise, in my thoughts. 

This could be a woman's paradise.

Unless, of course you had a little blue box in mind.


So what are your thoughts on what paradise is like?
Artsy? Tartsy? 

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

Victor Hugo

Just keep in mind no matter what, it's all good.  It just depends on what you do, or don't do that can make all the difference in the world. Enjoy your weekend that is soon approaching. 

Thanks for stopping by to say hello I truly enjoy your visits.
Take good care of YOU!

Meanwhile, back to art class.

Heart Attitude and Critters

It's bad vibes that can spoil a room, or a rally, and actually bad vibes ruin everything.

"Remembering that every room in your house, or wherever you may travel, is a place where memories are made. Be sure to include some animals in them as well."

"A mind is like a parachute. It does not work if it is not open." Frank Zappa
As critters go, they're always ready to please.

Good morning, and happy Monday to all. My weekend was a busy one, beginning with Friday night and Danny Jr. and I celebrating his entry into the double digits! 10 years old on my father's birthday both April 28th actually.  We made it to the opening of The Avengers movie naturally.

"A hug is like a boomerang, you get it back right away."

Rick Remender

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

"Because failure isn't an option
if success is just a matter of more effort."
W. Bruce Cameron

Dogs have important jobs, besides being cute,
like barking when the doorbell rings, 
but mostly to be your play buddy.

Critters arrive in mysterious ways. Some by realness others by paint.

"Uniqueness is like a signature,
nobody can forge it's exact copy."
Michael Bassey Johnson

"Life is a series of unique opportunities

It's our job to find the happiness in each one."

Rick Remender

Not all birds are meant to be caged.
Some are meant to be drawn.

Yep, I'm still checking the progress of "Ice out" on Lake Harriet.

South side is still winning so far, but at a very slow pace.

"Forever is composed of nows."

Emily Dickinson

"Happiness, not in another place but this place,

not for another hour, but this hour."

Walt Whitman

This day is too importantly dear to waste a moment of it.

Life doesn't give us purpose

we give life purpose.

A Flash quote.

Thanks for stopping in, your visits give me purpose in being here.

Take good care of you.

Phenology

Phenology has been slow to begin with winter's grip, a day of
spring, and back to winter until finally, I do believe spring. 

I hope you enjoy my photos from yesterday
to celebrate "World Book Day" 
in Linden Hills at Wild Rumpus Book Store 
and around Lake Harriet.


I still believe-

"You can't wait for inspiration.

 You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London

Life belongs in the fields, 
on any avenue, in the ponds, on the mountains, sailing on a lake,
sharing earthly tokens and by the seashore.

Yes there are still remains of ice and snow. 
 Give it a few days, it'll be history once and again 
spring will prevail. 
Also, not one duck in sight.

"No winter lasts forever
no spring skips its turn."
Hal Borland

Phenology
(the recording of natural events)

"For anyone who walks the woods and fields
and wants to learn about living things 
he has often looked at but never seen."
Hal Borland

Happy World Book Day
at 
Wild Rumpus Book Store

"When legends die the dreams end.
When the dreams end there is no more greatness."


We are the music makers,
and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Arthur O'Shaunghnessy

Meet the Animals
at Wild Rumpus Book Store

"Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people."
Henry Thomas Buckle

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.


"Harmony with land is like
harmony with a friend;
you cannot cherish his right hand
and chop off his left."
Aldo Leopold

Remember, 
Every day you play with the light of the universe."
Pablo

I really do appreciate all you visits.
I hope this post finds you all enjoy life by every moment.