Tree popcicles

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.
~Marche Blumenberg

Yuletide blessings

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

On Christmas

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase

On sadness

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
~Lamartine

I love mine!

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
~Author Unknown

Home

Peace - that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

A blessing

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~Irish Blessing

On believing

Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom.
~Author Unknown

Quiet beauty

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful -
and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
~Pam Brown

Melancholy

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
~Jean Rhys

Autumn mist

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.
~Pepper Giardino

Respite

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~Elizabeth Lawrence

Breathe it in

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering,
I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!
~Henri Rousseau

Cloud art

Nature is my medicine.
~Sara Moss-Wolfe

Yay or neigh

If you want a stable friendship, get a horse.
~Author Unknown

Story-telling skies

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~John Keats

Summer is over...

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause
between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~Carol Bishop Hipps

On getting close

Nature will not be admired by proxy.
~Winston Churchill

Totally.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~Aaron Rose

After dusk

I love the sweet smell of dawn -
our unique daily opportunity to smell time,
to smell opportunity -
each morning being, a new beginning.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche