Summer Hay

 “Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.” 

 - Horace

Print Available - HERE 

Hay Fields of Virginia

“I come here for the solitude. I come to soak myself in memories before they evaporate, before they float so far from my memory that I can't catch them.” 

 ― Brenda Sutton Rose

Print Available - HERE 

The Church with the Red Roof

“... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.” 

 ― Elizabeth von Arnim, AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp  

Another lady to get to know - 
Author of "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" 

which is available as a free download 

at Project Gutenberg - HERE 

And this lovely Red Roof Church is available - HERE 

Bales of Hay

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

 ― Wendell Berry

Available - HERE 

Forever in the Distance

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

 ― Franz Grillparzer

Appreciate the Moments

Stop to appreciate the moments. Summed up, they are the bricks of our soul.

~ Gary Rudz

Summer Scenery

 Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. 
 ~ Henry James

 A typical summer scene in our little country town.

A Favorite Place

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
 ― Wendell Berry 

This is the scene along one of my favorite trails. I am VERY fortunate to have a LOT of nice walking trails where I live.

On The Farm

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. 
~  John Greenleaf Whittier 

An Artsy Version Available - HERE 

Signs of Summer

 The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. 
It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, 
by which disease passes into health, 
age into youth, death into life. 
Without proper care for it we can have no community, 
because without proper care for it 
we can have no life.
- Wendell Berry