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Thursday, December 20, 2018

Merry Christmas!



"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.  If you concentrate on what you don't have; you will never, ever have enough."  -  Oprah 

Friday, September 28, 2018

Sunflowers


"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."  
-  Maya Angelou


Thursday, September 6, 2018

Ohio Rocks!


"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." -  Henry Miller


I bought a new book.

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Dad


"You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are."  -  Bryant McGill


I am blessed.

Thursday, May 31, 2018

100 Day Project

 
"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."  -  Les Brown


At first, I planned to take pictures of anything I found beautiful, not necessarily flowers.  But my project #seebeautyhere has evolved into flower and nature pictures, a majority documenting my yard coming back to life after a long winter. 
 

Thursday, May 17, 2018

What Are You Looking At?


"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."  -  Lewis Carroll 


Thursday, May 10, 2018

A Very Windy Day


"Anything you can't control is teaching you how to let go."  -  Jackson Kiddard


It was a very, very windy day last week when a friend and I went to Cox Arboretum to find some spring blossoms.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Thursday, April 26, 2018

I Judge A Book By It's Cover


"Your assumptions are your windows on the world.  Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."  -  Isaac Asimov


I hate to admit it...but I do.

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Ranunculus


"The difference between school and life?  In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.  In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."  -  Tom Bodett


"I like the contrast." Megan, my teenage daughter, commented after I showed her two photographs I took of ranunculus flowers.

Thursday, April 5, 2018

April Fool's


"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."  
 -  Japanese Proverb


Mother Nature played a late April Fool's joke on us.  
 

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Spring?


"There's just something beautiful about walking in snow that nobody else has walked on.  It makes you believe you're special."  -  Carol Rifka Brunt


Croquet wasn't going to be on the to-do list this past Wednesday. 

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Orchids


"Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be."  -  unknown


Thursday, March 1, 2018

A Big One!


      "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years." 
 -  Abraham Lincoln


Thursday, February 22, 2018

Everyday Beauty


"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."  -  Confucius


Sometimes I look too hard to find things to photograph and end up overlooking beauty that is right under my nose.  This week I looked a little closer...

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Cloudland Canyon State Park, Georgia



"Hiking is a bit like life:  The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other...again and again and again.  And if you allow yourself opportunity to be present throughout the entirety of the trek, you will witness beauty every step of the way, not just at the summit."  -  unknown


Friday, February 9, 2018

Red Velvet Cake



"I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing."  -  Jim Gaffigan, actor and comedian


Monday, January 8, 2018

Happy New Year!


  "What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year."  -  Vern McLellan


My Christmas wasn't white...I didn't mind a bit. :)