On best friends

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
~O.A. Battista

Home

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

On liberty

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan

The cat with no hat

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.
~Tay Hohoff

On the move

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born? Where is your home?
Where are you going? What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~Richard Bach

Creature comforts

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
~May Sarton

Setting skies

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
~George Carlin

Rumbling skies

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

Shelter

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Orgy of colours

Hard not to smile when feasting your eyes upon such beauties, no?

Where's Waldo?

Hint: the cat's name is Waldo...

Basking magnolias

'Tis a shame that magnolia flowers only bloom for a few days out of the year... I find them fascinating!

Green babies

Mother Nature's little yearly miracles :-)

Rooted sunshine

This lone pretty flower is a poem on a stem.

Ginger snap

Met this little fellow while walking the dogs, he was very happy to give the nice lady a big smile for the camera!

Spring lambs

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want -
oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain

Spring = rebirth!

The Bubblegum snapshots are back! Well at least for a while... so do kick back and enjoy daily shots of colour, courtesy of Mother Nature and my faithful old camera. Vive le printemps!

In praise of dogs...

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown,
and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me.
They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.
~Emily Dickinson

Success

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

drifting sideways

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson