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.

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.  

 

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. 

Orchids

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

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