No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face....
~John Donne, "Elegy IX: The Autumnal"
 

My it's been a long time ....so much going on....both good and bad...but Fall is here, almost winter...I just love this time of year...the smells, the beauty, the changing of the leaves...that crisp bite in the air......fresh apples and holidays....

The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. ~Cornelia L. Tuthill, "Virginia Dare: Or, the Colony of Roanoke," 1840
 

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

..and hot cider...yum.........*

The beauty of the sun rising...'when it does'... is so exquisite.

 Nature never stops to  amaze me, with all of it's beauty and 'treats'...today a thunder storm in the afternoon, the loud  cracking of the thunder...the smell of the rain...oh I love it so..* 

The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life. ~Ana Jacob

"Hope" is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops — at all....
~Emily Dickinson, c.1861

 

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~Martin Luther


There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~Minnie Aumonier

 A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near. ~Author Unknown

Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures — squirrels, fairies and angels. ~Author Unknown

 

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
~Edmund Vance Cooke

 

 Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Oh goodness...feeling awfully low....no energy............it's daydream time............* 

                                             click on the above pic..what a treat*

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ~Anaïs Nin


To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. ~Antoine Rivarol


Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

I came from a Land of honey and cream
Where all that one did was to sleep and dream.
And the dreams I treasured were bright and gay
About budding trees and the flowers in May...
~Gertrude Buckingham

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ~Neil Gaiman

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas


Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ~Victor Hugo


Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ~Gaston Bachelard  

.....off into never never land............... 

 

Weekends.....time to 'get things done' and hopefully have some time to relax...have fun...whatever....* 
I remember looking forward to them so much when I was little...we always did something fun on a Saturday....and in the Spring....just taking a drive in the country side was special...such a change from the city...so beautiful, and nature all around...the smells,...the sounds...I love those memories...*

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec


We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi

 

You are the sky. Everything else—it's just the weather. ~Pema Chödrön


You exist in time, but you belong to eternity. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

 

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr Seuss

It's always Now. ~Eckhart Tolle
 

Life sure is ....well it's hard to explain sometimes.....*

Off to get some things done.....hopefully....* 

 

Oh May....I time of the budding of the trees....the birds happily singing their songs......the start of flowers in bloom..the smells....the fresh air....I love it so*...........just cool enough, not too hot yet....Spring fever starts to break......and all the earth is coming alive................*

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers — for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Khalil Gibran

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

  

 You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

The soft, Spring rain....bringing showers for May flowers....

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

 I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman

Soon fresh flowers on the table...the scent in the air....

 ooh BBQ's coming ...family and friends gather.....

 Nighttime outdoors in the Spring...chilly but oh so lovely......*

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest odours. Flow forth, ye perfumes of my heart, and seek beyond these mountains the dear one of my dreams! ~Heinrich Heine, "The Hartz Journey" (1824), Pictures of Travel, translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1855
 

Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
 

 

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

Oh a bit late to send Easter wishes....but there is nothing quite like Easter, and the traditions it carries in the heart....special things...home made bread, kielbasa, eggs and so much more....better still, the family all together ...so special when the family is together...my most favorite times of all~ and 
Spring...soon here, the buds will peek out from  the hard earth...the buds on the trees..birds singing...a time of joy and renewal...warmth...sun....*

April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland

The year’s at the spring
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven -
All’s right with the world!
~Robert Browning

My, I wonder if we have finally have had our fair share of sleet and snow....though I do love it, I worry about those out and about driving...loved ones..friends....Winter has it's good side and it's bad side too....but I love it so.......

Soon the flowers will peek out from the hard earth as always...Mother Nature never fails.....buds will bloom...birds will sing....

The Dawn is a wild, fair woman,
With sunrise in her hair;
Look where she stands, with pleading hands,
To lure me there.
~Robert Loveman, c.1901

Until then I drink my hot coffee and tea and soups...enjoying each and every sip....

 
coffee in the morning of course...

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. ~Henry Ward Beecher
 

The eye of the poet still loves to view
The earth in the light of morn;
When each object comes in its happiest hue,
When all looks pure, and unstain’d, and new...
Ere the air’s first freshness is worn away...
Ere the sultry sun, in the glare of his pride
Hath dash’d all the dewy drops aside...
Ere man moves forth with his thoughts of care,
With his wearied step, and his selfish air,
And his ominous looks to cloud the scene,
Where brightness and beauty alone have been.
~Thomas Furlong, "Morning Meditations"

Aww too cute..*

Well off to make another cup of something hot to warm the bones and sooth the soul.....

A snowy, then rainy day..........

’Tis sweet as the day begins to dawn,
When the lark her song is singing,
To wander at will through the grassy lawn
Where fresh flowers around are springing.
’Tis sweet at that solemn hour to go
O’er the rocky slope, all alone,
Where the scattering streamlets freely flow...
’Tis well to inhale the earthly gale,
As it sweeps the green hill’s side...
Or to look on the wood in its leafy pride,
In the glen or on the grove, the dawn is fair,—
Morning is beautiful every where!
~Thomas Furlong, "Morning Meditations"

 Just before dawn I have the world all to myself. ~Terri Guillemets

Warm and cozy inside....a good soup as I daydream about Spring.....

Another snowy, icy and then rain and snow again kind of week....but love the cold and the white snow...then the teeny bulbs will come peeking out of the hard ground ....the birds will sing their happiest of songs......

'Spring is being blessed and happy,
with blooming flowers.
Summer is being blessed and hot,
with abundant sunshine.
Autumn is being blessed and reflective,
with colored leaves.
Winter is being blessed and chilly
with sparkling snow.
~Terri Guillemets'

 Well off to make some hot hot coffee.....*

Prayers for those with troubles or illness as well as our service men and women...and our allies..
.in my thoughts and prayers ..ever grateful...*