Winter...almost here, with it's crisp cold air and biting cold. Warm drinks and a season of family and festivities and for contemplating the new year ahead...

 

 It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. ~John Burroughs, "Winter Sunshine"

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth

                                                                           

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.

 

 I hide myself in the quiet white of Winter and
nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion.
~Terri Guillemets



 Ever grateful for those tiny moments that bring us joy...that make us smile..the things life is made of.....

Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. ~Terri Guillemets

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "April Days," 1861


What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ~Author Unknown

 

Well, Autumn has come..at last..it was such a wet and humid summer, it just went on and on.
 Now that air is turning 'brisk' and the breeze has that smell and crispness I look so forward to...
That cup of hot cider....the pumpkins...all it brings with it. 

 I am enjoying sitting here...feeling that 'cool breeze softly wafting through the window. The sound of cars passing by on a Saturday night as always, so many people are coming and going. 
                                                                                 


Halloween, Thanksgiving....Family is so important...the ups and downs, the worries...but that joy and warmth..that love, is always always there. There is nothing quite like it. Nothing....♥

                                                                                   

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

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

I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze.
The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.
~Ann Drake, 2013

[T]here is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky...
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ah...a rainy cool day...I can't believe it..so hot and humid lately I thought it would never end. We sure don't need anymore rain, but the cool that has come with it...so wonderful.
Well, it's only for a day...but I'll take it...and enjoy every moment of it. 
The littlest things in our lives are most times the best things......
Sunday...I love the quiet of Sundays...living in the city..all week long the sounds of trucks and traffic, helicopters and planes...workmen running their machines........and then Sunday comes. 
No work allowed, no busy hustle and bustle to and from the city. What a joyful day. 
I love the peaceful silence. 

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes

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 or choose to dance in the rain! ~Terri Guillemets, "Homeward bound in the crashing of the rain," 1991  

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson

Hmm what I wouldn't give for a walk in the woods....

Enjoy the day. Truly we never know what tomorrow brings...♥

ooh I just love fountains like these........just gorgeous..and what a feeling they bring.

Ah..........hot and sunny....hazy and humid...a 'dog day' of summer......

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown


Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder. ~Terri Guillemets

Time to daydream...knowing fall is just 'around the corner'....take in the moment and enjoy...with a cold glass of iced tea...

The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn. ~Terri Guillemets

Sooo much rain....every bit of sun that peeks through is to be treasured....

Enjoy the day.....each moment that makes you smile...♥

Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you. ~Terri Guillemets

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure. ~Alvaro Velasco

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra


We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse. ~Dodinsky,

A rainy, stormy summer day...

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. ~John Lubbock


Hot and steamy outside......I remember running out in the rain when I was young....it was so refreshing...such fun....



Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ~Author Unknown

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year — it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson

I hope you all take the time to 
enjoy the beauty around you, when ever you can...
take a look at the hue of a softened sky-
to the green of the trees and the grace of nature-
the birds that gather-the songs that they sing-take a
deep breath find joy in simple things..we never know

what life has in store for us tomorrow.

Have joy filled day.....♥

Another summer...

A year has passed...so much happening....but once again summer is here...the sweet soft scents in the air...the warm sun on the skin...the rainy days ...the hot days...and the cooler ones when I can open the windows...hear the birds singing their songs....all back once again. 
The fruits.....the berries...yum... the ice cream that just tastes that much better in the summer....the corn and all that comes with the season...so special. 
Life seems to pass so quickly......you have to take it all in, enjoy it while we have it.

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker


A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent


If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams

The luxury of all summer's sweet sensation is to be found when one lies at length in the warm, fragrant grass, soaked with sunshine, aware of regions of blossoming clover and of a high heaven filled with the hum of innumerous bees. ~Harriet E. Prescott

I am Summer, come to lure you away from your computer... come dance on my fresh grass, dig your toes into my beaches. ~Oriana Green