Kiss The Earth With Your Feet

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. 

― Thich Nhat Hanh

Finding Beauty

If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere. 

 ~ Vincent van Gogh

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

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!

Meeting Halfway

When inspiration doesn't come, 
I go halfway to meet it.  

~ Sigmund Freud

Lifted

Having Fun!

Tufted Titmouse 

Red-bellied Woodpecker 

You can't use up creativity. 
The more you use, the more you have. 

~ Maya Angelou

Merry Christmas

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. 

~ Dale Evans

Winter Wonderland

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. 
- John Boswell

 Another Version - HERE 

A Winter of Imagination

Blue Jay on a snowy branch 

The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination. 

 ~Terri Guillemets

Print Available - HERE 

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

Artsy Version - HERE 

Enchanted

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

~ Guy Kawasaki

White-throated sparrow - sheltered from a snowstorm 

Just Be

Print Available - HERE 

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 

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 

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!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED 

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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

Do You See What I See?

Love is not something you feel. 
It's something you do.  

~ David Wilkerson

Do you see the heart shape in the snowflakes?  

Finding The Way

Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust. 
 Let the world find its way to you.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Chickadee Wings

Awe is what moves us forward.

~ Joseph Campbell

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

We Only Get One Canvas

Make your lives a masterpiece, 
you only get one canvas.

~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Print Available - HERE 

Produce Joy

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

~ Walt Whitman

Such wise words!
  
Print Available - HERE 

Instructions for Living

Instructions for living a life. 

 Pay attention. 

 Be astonished. 

 Tell about it.

~ Mary Oliver

Breathe In The World

Take a step, breathe in the world, 
give it out again in story, 
poem, song, art.

~ Jane Yolen

Visited By a Friend

The ornament of a house 
is the friends who frequent it.

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ending and Beginning

We cross infinity with every step; 

we meet eternity in every second.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

   Empty nest     

an ending

and

 beginning

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

 

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

Bellepoint Park- Hinton, WV

Available at Fine Art America - HERE 

The Space Between The Petals

                                      Sometimes I feel like

                                                    the space between the petals

                                                                          but deep down I know

                                                                                            even those spaces

                                                                                                            have significance 

Pelican in the Clouds

Imagination is the seed from which magic blooms...

 ~ Elle Jacklee

Do you see the Pelican?

More Pretty Clouds - HERE 

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.

Another "Artsy" Version - HERE 

Practice Random Beauty

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
~ Unknown

Available - HERE 

A Conspiracy of Love

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

 ― H.W. Mabie

Prints, Greeting Cards and More Available - HERE 

Lady in the Snow

All Heaven and Earth 
Flowered white obliterate... 
Snow...unceasing snow 
― Hashin

Stray Birds

Carolina Chickadee - Bisset Park - Radford, Virginia  

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Prints Available  
HERE

 

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  

Print Available - HERE 


My Facebook Page is HERE

With The Eyes of Love

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.  

~ Rabindranath Tagore  

Tufted Titmouse - Bisset Park, Radford, Virginia

  Available for purchase on my Fine Art Site - HERE 

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.

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  

Venture Beyond Your Limits

Embrace the notion of venturing beyond your own limits.

~ Eleesha

The Smallest Things

One of my greatest joys is to find HEARTS in nature :) 

For The Birds

Up close with a White-breasted Nuthatch

I realized that if I had to choose, 
I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh 

I am in total agreement with Charles on this one!

Falling Together

White-crowned Sparrow

I didn't have to go far to find this White-crowned Sparrow.

He posed for me in the parking lot of a trail/park that I frequently visit. 

Heritage Park is Blacksburg's largest park with 169 acres of natural area.

It's one of my FAVORITE places!

I usually hear these little ones before I see them.
A link to their songs/calls - HERE 

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

This Print Available - HERE