Create Your Own Music

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. 

~ Mac Anderson

 

"Sing to the Lord a new song; 

 sing to the Lord, all the earth." 

 Psalm 96:1

We Have Lift-Off

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. 

 ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Prints and More Available - HERE 

Friends are Special (And a Giveaway)

I was asked to blog about Friendship and host a giveaway - and of course I couldn't refuse!

(The frame above is part of the giveaway)

Why are Friends Special?  This is why:

 A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. 

 ~Donna Roberts

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

 ― Linda Grayson

And what better way to say "Thank you for being my friend" than with a box of Chocolates

ESPECIALLY THESE  Merci Chocolates!

As you can see the box is open ..... I couldn't exactly tell you how if I liked them if I didn't try them now could I?  and like them I did .... well actually I LOVED them. Every single one was delicious. 
(I did share with hubby and so I did not eat them all) 
They were a perfect after dinner delight!  
(a before dinner delight too)

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. 

 ~Author Unknown

This Candle (Dark Chocolate Scent Of Course) is also part of the Giveaway

$25 Target Gift Card is part of this Giveaway 

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. 
 ~Lois Wyse

So in total - The "Frienship Kit" Giveaway includes:

A "Friends" picture frame

A 7oz box of Merci Chocolates 

A Dark Chocolate Scented Candle

$25 Target Gift Card

To enter is Simple - just leave me a comment saying you would like to be entered.
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This Giveaway ENDS Saturday September 7th, 2013 -
Winner Drawn on the 8th and posted on the 9th.

AND - I did receive all of the items above (to keep and to EAT) in order to blog about them - however - this did not in any way sway my opinion of the products.

Sharing this with Thursday Favorite Things

Red-bellied Woodpecker - Female

Build a House for men and birds. 

Sit with them and play music. 

For a day, for just one day, 

talk about that which disturbs no one 

and bring some peace, my friend, 

into your beautiful eyes.

 ~ Hafiz

Female Red-Bellied Woodpecker

Delighted

Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.

~ Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is an amazing Poet!  Her words seem to reflect exactly how I feel!

The Beauty of Rain

But the true lover of rain.... has a deep inner enjoyment of the rain, as rain, and his sense of its beauty drinks it in as thirstily as does the drinking earth. It refreshes and cools his heart and brain; he longs to go forth into the fields, to feel its steady stream, to scent its fragrance; to stand under some heavy-foilaged chestnut-tree, and hear the rushing music on the crowded leaves. 
~ John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863

Available - HERE 

 

Bluebird Curiosity

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. 

 ― Luci Swindoll

Male Bluebird - Heritage Park - Blackburg, Virginia

 

The You Within

And like flowers in the fields, that make wonderful views, when we stand side-by-side in our wonderful hues...

 We all make a beauty so wonderfully true. We are special and different, and just the same, too! 

 So whenever you look at your beautiful skin, from your wiggling toes to your giggling grin... 

 Think how lucky you are that the skin you live in, so beautifully holds the "You" who's within.

~ Michael Tyler, The Skin You Live In

Fun in the Wet Grass

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

 ~ Dr. Seuss

Doesn't it look like this squirrel is looking at me and saying that exact same thing?

 

A Glimpse Of Happiness

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

 ~ Richard Peck

Listen to the Flutter

But this time I chose to silence both my head and my heart so that I could listen carefully to the silent flutter of wings. 

~ Lacey Ellmoore

A Time Of Quiet Joy

It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

~ John Steinbeck  

Always Dancing

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

 ― L.M. Montgomery

Common Buckeye Butterfly leaves the wildflower .... on to the next.

 

Give It Away

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you. 

~ Anonymous

~ Painted Lady Butterfly ~ 

Print Available - HERE 

Snapping Turtle

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. 

Love everything, you will be happiest.

 ~ Sri Chinmoy

Snapping Turtle from our visit to the Western NC Nature Center

House Wren Display

“...you don't need a calling to minister love...” 

~ John Geddes

These little House Wrens can be very vocal.  I believe this one was displaying and calling for his mate.  Soon she arrived and I believe he took her "house hunting"  I've read that he builds up to 12 nests and lets her choose which one she wants.

What a Guy!!

Meeting at the Milkweed

Life is so endlessly delicious.

~ Ruth Reichl

Surrender

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

 ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Make Your Dreams Come True

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

See the ARTSY Version - HERE 

Watching Baby

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

~ Erin Kelly

Print Available - HERE 

Rendezvous with a Butterfly

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous. 

~ Robert Brault

Keep On Flying

Sometimes

Life is hard

but we must

keep on flying.

Nature has a LOT to teach us about not giving up,

about being tough when things are rough

about

Continuing to Fly

Be Gentle

Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others. 

~ Lama Yeshe



More of my Hummingbird Moth images - HERE 

Feeding the Youngster

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Joy and Kindness

Spread Joy

Scatter Kindness

Brighten the World with your Smile

Sharing with Tuesday Muse 

Skipper on the Chicory

Peace is always beautiful.

~ Walt Whitman

Chase A Butterfly

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

― Max Lucado