Contemplating.

Contemplating.
Wayzata, Minnesota

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Just Around the Corner and Critters

Welcome to places that are just around the corner.

"Sometimes discovery means getting lost on a path where you return to a meaningful version of yourself. It gives you the scent of a world smiling still. It becomes the fresh water of your life itself."

Jayita Bhattacharjee


Mackinac Island, Michigan


SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

post and I'm also posting to City Daily Photo





 What can you learn from a statue?




"There are no boundaries only possibilities."

S M Rinpoche



"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day."

Gloria Steinem





"What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say."

Ralph Waldo Emerson


 



 "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

Ralph Waldo Emerson




"Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try."

Edward T. Kelly




 



"Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others."

A. Nielsen



Huntsville, Alabama




Athens, Alabama


"There are some things you learn best in clam and some in storm."

Willa Cather




Need I say where this is?





 

"The doors we open and close each day 
decide the lives we live."
Flora Whittemore

 



 

"Carry laughter with you wherever you go."

Hugh Sidey




"It is when you are really living in the present that you are living spiritually."

Brenda Ueland








Charleston, South Carolina 

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment

 before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank

Thank you so much for stopping by and gifting me with comments.

Take good care of you.

23 comments:

DeniseinVA said...

Great post! Very enjoyable looking at your photos and reading all the quotes.

Cloudia said...

Thank you so much for what you give to us and put into the world. Karen, Aloha

Elephant's Child said...

Thank you for the beauty, the quirkiness, the wisdom and the fun.
I do try and live up to the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote. A work in progress.

Sandi said...

Mackinac ! I want to go there.

eileeninmd said...

Hello Karen,
I love all the critter statues, a wonderful collection of photos and quotes. The doggies are favorites too. Great photo of you, I assume you were not working on this day. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great day and a happy week ahead. PS, thank you for leaving me a comment.

RedPat said...

Your posts are always uplifting, Karen. ;-)

Shiju Sugunan said...

Beautiful photos and a wonderful selection of quotes to ponder.

21 Wits said...

Too funny guess I should have proofread my post - calm not clam! What was I thinking about?!

21 Wits said...

Thanks always happy to see your comment enjoy the week!

21 Wits said...

Aloha right back to you and Miss Pixie too. A friend of mine just came back from your lovely world, and it was so fun seeing her post photos of places she went with her daughter and grandkiddos! Such a lovely place where you live and so much to learn about. History and nature.

21 Wits said...

I do believe we're all a work in progress and I think that's a good thing. I'm trying to be even more adventurous than ever, as life is too short!

21 Wits said...

It's one of my favorite places and we never went there enough when I was growing up and it was so much closer than living here in Minnesota!

21 Wits said...

Thank you, Pat, good to hear it's what I aim for especially these days! It's a way of making me feel better too. Positivity!

21 Wits said...

Pondering quotes is my thing!!!

21 Wits said...

Thanks for stopping by and yes it was my weekend to work!

Veronica Lee said...

Gorgeous shots and such thoughtful quotes!

Happy Saturday!

Anonymous said...

On what Emerson said. I thought the purpose in life, or one purpose anyhow, was to be happy. It's pretty important to be so.

Anonymous said...

Nice photos of Target in Alabama and at what must have been the safari in Maplewood. Enjoy your day

21 Wits said...

Thank you. Target in Charleston SC and I'm thinking Happy Birthday to you!

21 Wits said...

Thank you!

21 Wits said...

Absolutely it is!

Yvonne said...

Always an enjoyment discovering what photos you choose to show and the wonderful quotes.

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much...it was spent camping at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park.