Unwind Let the Dust Settle

Today I'm taking time to unwind and let winter's dust settle as I know spring prepares to arrive!  I'm posting to City Daily Photo.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

 

"Whether I drink often or just once in a while; I'm always sure to raise a glass to the dear old Emerald Isle." Pat Maloney

Good luck finding a four-leaf clover little Lyra, or is that really a little Leprechaun?

Do you know what are your odds are of finding a four-leaf clover?

Apparently, your chances are one in 10,000.

So, in other words, if you do find your four-leaf clover

 it means you have entirely too much time on your hands.

Meet Finn and please welcome him as his grand finale day has arrived and like many of us we will also be celebrating St. Patrick's Day with him and all-around town.

Yes that's Finn hanging from my window, I believe I heard him say,

"May your blessings out number the shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you wherever you go." Irish Blessing

Yes please, may all the snow melt away.

If you're lucky while you are standing outside window shopping you might catch sight of a Leprechaun running by. Do keep your eyes open.

"St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time, a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic." -Adrienne Cook

"May your pockets be heavy, and your heart be light. 

May good luck pursue you each morning and night." Irish Blessing

Reach for the sky, it's not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.

Brooke Allison

Remember this,

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Cookie anyone?

"What time do the shenanigans begin?"

"When Irish eyes are smiling. Sure,'tis like a morning Spring in the lilt of Irish laughter. You can hear the angels sing. When Irish hearts are happy. All the world seems bright and gay. What when Irish eyes are smiling."

Thank you for stopping in!

"May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold-and at the end of your rainbows ay you find a pot of gold." Irish Blessing

Out and About My World

Welcome to my world please join me as I post this to City Daily Photo. With all the horrific happenings in Ukraine and our thoughts are focused there, I want to bring notice to those things we often take for granted. I hope you too enjoy moments of gratitude in your life.

Be the finder of hidden joys.

Not everything means the same to everyone. Be the keeper of your thoughts. 

Photos from the Walker Sculpture Garden Minneapolis

Sometimes two heads are better than one.

"Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction." C.S. Lewis

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Chuck Palahniuk

Out and About My World

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."

Earl Nightingale

So many sights to see in Minneapolis.

Yes Bob, "The times they are a changin'" 

On a frigid Saturday a couple weeks ago, I spent the day at our incredible Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Aka The Arb refreshing my soul.

You'll often catch me taking photos from the inside looking out. I'm especially fond of showing the winter views in the background. Outside, in what often is quoted as "Minnesota tundra."

and below is a Lady Slipper extremely rare and hard to find and yet our state flower. 

Below. Art that allows you to ponder and reflect upon and yet you never know it's true meaning.

I am so very thankful for those that create not just with their hands but their heart and soul.

In every work of art the artist himself is present.

Christian Morgenstern

"May your days be many and your troubles few."

Below please meet my tag-along, Finn. He's here until the end of March and off presto he's off to the hills for another year.

 

Sharing a cup of coffee and sweet snack with Finn, how lucky can I be?

Totally!

I guess you could call me a soup-junkie

 and every city near and far has my go to soup.

"Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery." C.S. Lewis

Even when things feel like you're going downhill, look up and reverse it.

There is an uphill for every downhill, and a downhill for every uphill. 

Turkish Proverb

Listen a hundred times, ponder a thousand times, speak once.

Turkish Proverb

Right outside my window.

"Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free; our mind, our soul, our body, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends. All these priceless possessions are free, but the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time."

Earl Nightingale 

Wherever you find yourself be happy with you.

Your visits brighten my day.

Take good care of you.

Happy Barking with Critters

Welcome to SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

Today I'm being grateful for some of the pets in my life. Please enjoy.

One person's noise is another person's joy.

Not really sure when this began but our pup Dash loves to run up to the television and bark at any animal, even if it's not making a sound, he can still depict it's an animal and it must be noticed. Do any of your pets do this?

Our Bonds of Love Never Die

"Animals are a window to your soul and a doorway to your spiritual destiny. If you let them into your life and allow them to teach you, you will be better for it."

Kim Shotola

My sweet puppy Dashiell (Dash)

"You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one."

Dashiell Hammett

and my sweet puppy Misty.

She's our snow loving always hungry for anything Misty girl.

I'm more than grateful for each and every animal that has been in my life and still is, which includes other people's animals as well. Animals are the finest humans in my opinion, and many of you know that feeling as well. We all know those pets who believe they are human. Dash is a huge believer trust me.

My daughter took this photo on a beautiful winter day in Alabama (my grand-daughter and her new pup) and it's one I believe I need blown up and placed on my desk next to me. Although I haven't met this recent addition of Athena to their family yet, but hopefully soon. She's actually from the same blood line as their dog, Artemis which I've often posted here. 

Speaking of Artemis here she is!

On the subject of Conversation with critters.

"It's not difficult to have a successful conversation with some critters, especially when you're conversing with your own pet, they get it."

I've found this to be true even with my Peacock. Repetition is all it takes.

 

"No matter what you do if it isn't genuine, it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it's not worth saying, and if it's a darkness around you perhaps it's not worth remembering."

E.E.D. Horton  Conversation With A Pigeon

Please just open the treat bag.

Proud to be me.

 Rusty, looking out his favorite window in the house.

Totally stylish!

Peek-A-Boo

Things change. Friends may leave. Bad things may happen. Your favorite bone might disappear. But your devoted critter keeps on loving you. No matter what.

Just so you know this is my bed at Grandma's house, but I'll share.

Spring is in the air even Misty can smell it!

Remember we set our clocks ahead at 2:00 am on Sunday, March 13th.

Time spent meeting new critters is never a waste.

We met these two sweet pups while we were shopping in Mackinac Island. 

One of my daughter's kitties.

I took this photo on one of my Alabama visits. Doesn't Lou-Lou look very interested in what I'm doing? Although oddly enough she doesn't enjoy kitty treats. Hard to imagine right?!

Remember Bugsley aka Bugs here.

No words necessary. You know what's he thinking.

Excuse me Mom, where are we going?

Yes, a sock Monkey is a true and beloved critter.

The force of Springs are mysterious, fecund, powerful beyond measure. Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Thanks for stopping by and may the joys of critters 

and spring be in your world always.

Take good care of you.

Winter Moments Going Quickly

Welcome everyone, I'm posting a few "Winter Moments" for  City Daily Photo, I'm so incredibly excited that we're another step closer to spring, by springing our clocks forward one hour for daylight savings time this weekend.

Spring, I'm ready how about you?

Walker Sculpture Garden Minneapolis

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music,

the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself." Henry Miller 

May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind always be at your back.

"The moment one gives close attention to anything,

even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." Henry Miller

Judith Shea

artist 

Without Words

"Go within every day and find the inner strength 

so that the world will not blow your candle out."

Katherine Dunham 

I actually went to see these snow sculptures more than a month ago and the last time I went there they were history, and only one ice sculpture remained.

"The world isn't always as we see it."

"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things."

Henry Miller

"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip,

be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself." Henry Miller

"Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing." 

Henry David Thoreau

"You gotta try your luck at least once a day,

 because you could be going around lucky all day

 and not even know it." Jimmy Dean

May you all gather your winter moments and adventures

 before they slip away.

Thanks for stopping in, 

know that your comments are very special to me.

 Take good care of you.