Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
― Thich Nhat Hanh
The above image is a photo made into a watercolor with an iphone app.
Monday
Finding Beauty
If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
~ Vincent van Gogh
About the image: Taken with my iPhone 4 and Olloclip lens
Congrats to Beth at E LizardBreath Speaks
she won the Chocolate in my latest Giveaway
Linking with Macro Monday
Sunday
The Very Stuff That Discovery Is Made Of
Does anyone see the "partial" heart in the tree bark?
Actually - as I look at this even more - I see TWO partial hearts :)
What seems mundane and trivial is the very stuff that discovery is made of. The only difference is our perspective, our readiness to put the pieces together in an entirely different way and to see patterns where only shadows appeared just a moment before.
~ Edward B. Lindaman
Linking with Weekly Top Shot
Linking with Simple Things Sunday
Saturday
Holding the Future
Great Grandfather (My Dad) and Great Grandson (My Grandson Conner)
Great Grandmother (My Mom) and Great Grandson Conner
And in today already walks tomorrow.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We celebrated Christmas 2012 with the entire family on Friday 12-28-12 and I think all would agree that Mom, Dad, and Conner were the best presents that we received!
Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Having Fun!
Tufted Titmouse
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yes, I am one of those people who likes to PLAY with their pictures!
These were edited with the Mobile Monet app for my iPad. It is LOTS of fun and has a free version - so you can create, have fun and be frugal at the same time :)
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
~ Maya Angelou
Linking with Wild Bird Wednesday
Linking with WW - Create with Joy
Monday
Merry Christmas
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
~ Dale Evans
Winter Wonderland
Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin’
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Gone away is the blue bird
In his place is the new bird
He’s singing our song, as we go along
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
~Richard B Smith
This snow pic is from last winter - and it's another one of my iPhone shots
Saturday
A Winter of Imagination
Blue Jay on a snowy branch - another one from the archives - December 2009
The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.
~Terri Guillemets
Linking with Weekly Top Shot
Friday
Your Life Is a Reflection
Your life is a reflection… you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.
~ Steve Maraboli
Linking with Weekend Reflections
Thursday
Enchanted
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.
~ Guy Kawasaki
White-throated sparrow - sheltered from a snowstorm
(archive diving - image from 2009)
Linking with Thursday Favorite Things
Wednesday
Sounding The Alarm
He who sings scares away his woes.
~ Cervantes
I found a cool site with a BUNCH of bird sounds shown.
The Carolina Wren is listed several times (scroll down)
and it shows his song, call, and alarm along with lots of other birds.
It's found - HERE
Linking with Wild Bird Wednesday
Tuesday
Who Wants Chocolate?
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
~Charles Schulz
I was asked to write my thoughts about MERCI European Chocolates and it really was a no-brainer. Free chocolates to try? What was there to think about?
These delicious chocolates have been quite the "after dinner" treat for hubby and me!
Each evening we would try a different flavor. My favorite was the Dark Mousse. Truly Yum-O! And what a Beautiful AROMA once that package was opened …… just heavenly!
These chocolates would be a perfect Thank You gift - at Christmas or anytime and can be purchased
HERE
HERE
And now it's your turn for an opportunity to try these chocolates!
All you have to do is leave a comment saying you would like to be entered into the giveaway. I'll keep it open until 12/27 and post the winner on 12/28.
FOR A BONUS ENTRY - LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE - HERE - and come back in a separate comment and let me know you've liked it. If you've already "liked" it in the past - that counts too! But you must leave a separate comment telling me so.
My Meaningful Thank You goes to my wonderful blog friends! I really can't thank you enough for all of the support you've given me over the years.
YOU really do make all of it worthwhile!
A Longing of the Soul
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Monday
Do You See What I See?
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
~ David Wilkerson
Do you see the heart in the snowflakes? This image was made last winter - and I never posted it. I kept thinking - no one will see what I see.... it's a blurry shot..... not very good.... but as I looked through my archives (which I do almost daily) - it kept popping out at me - like it was asking me to use it. So today I'm using it. The quote I used today was one I had heard variations of - but had never seen it in print- until today. It sure has me thinking!
Linking with Macro Monday
Sunday
Finding The Way
Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust. Let the world find its way to you.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Image made August 2012
Linking with Simple Things Sunday
Saturday
Compassion
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish.
Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears.
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless.
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Friday
We Only Get One Canvas
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Linking with Skywatch Friday
Produce Joy
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
~ Walt Whitman
Such wise words from Walt.
About the image: Painted Lady Butterfly taken in August 2012
About the quote: This is from "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman and is a free kindle download thru Amazon.
Linking with Favorite Photo Friday
Thursday
Instructions for Living
Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
~ Mary Oliver
Linking with Thursday Favorite Things
Wednesday
Breathe In The World
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.
~ Jane Yolen
Linking with Watery Wednesday II
Tuesday
Visited By a Friend
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My first Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at the feeder. I've had them in the trees in my front yard and back yard but I've never seen one at the feeder....until now. I was thrilled!
Linking with Wild Bird Wednesday
Ending and Beginning
We cross infinity with every step;
we meet eternity in every second.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Empty nest
an ending
and
beginning
Linking with Nature Notes
Linking with Our World
Monday
Fill It With Wonderful Thoughts
Turtles always make me smile :)
If you fill your mind with wonderful thoughts, there can be no room left for doubt.
~ Silvia Hartmann
Linking with Macro Monday
Linking with Mandarin Orange Monday
Sunday
The Joy of Just Being
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
iPhone pic -12-09-12 - Hinton, WV
Linking with Simple Things Sunday
Linking with Sunday Snapshot
Linking with Weekly Top Shot
The Space Between The Petals
Sometimes I feel like
the space between the petals
but deep down I know
even those spaces
have significance
Saturday
Pelican in the Clouds
Imagination is the seed from which magic blooms...
~ Elle Jacklee
Do you see the Pelican?
Friday
Blue Jay in the Snow
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.
Diving into the archives again - this is from February 2010.
Linking with Foto Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Lady in the Snow
All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow
― Hashin
Image made: Christmas Day 2010
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow
― Hashin
Image made: Christmas Day 2010
Stray Birds
Carolina Chickadee - Bisset Park - Radford, Virginia - 12-01-12
I have found the most AWESOME FREE E-book that I just had to share with you
It's Called - Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
It has some of the most beautiful verse I have ever read
I have found the most AWESOME FREE E-book that I just had to share with you
It's Called - Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
It has some of the most beautiful verse I have ever read
The first verse:
Stray birds of summer come to my window and sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
Linking with
Monday
All Dressed Up
I can't seem to get enough of the frosty leaves.
This reminded me of a Princess :)
There is no better designer than nature.
~ Alexander McQueen
My Facebook Page is HERE
This reminded me of a Princess :)
There is no better designer than nature.
~ Alexander McQueen
My Facebook Page is HERE
Sunday
With The Eyes of Love
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Image made: 12-01-12 - Bisset Park, Radford, Virginia
Linking with
Saturday
Free December 2012 Calendar Download
Happy December!
This Calendar is FREE to download.
If you want a LARGE size - email me at: kerrik312000 at yahoo dot com and I will send it to you.
(or leave a comment with your email address asking me to send it)
This concludes a whole year of free calendar downloads. They have been a JOY to make
and I hope you have enjoyed them.
This Calendar is FREE to download.
If you want a LARGE size - email me at: kerrik312000 at yahoo dot com and I will send it to you.
(or leave a comment with your email address asking me to send it)
This concludes a whole year of free calendar downloads. They have been a JOY to make
and I hope you have enjoyed them.
How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
~ Dr. Seuss
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