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

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...

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

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

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. :)

Merry Christmas

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.  They must be felt with the heart."  -  Helen Keller

The Last of the Fall Colors

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."  -  unknown

I kept looking out the window as I was washing the breakfast dishes.  I wanted to get outside. 

Cauliflower

"Vegetables are a must on a diet.  I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie"  -  Jim Davis

"Aren't they beautiful?" The off-the-clock employee commented, as she stopped to admire them with me on her way out the door.