An Icy Embrace

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

- John Boswell

The branches and leaves

wrapped snuggly

an icy embrace 

Decorating the Tree

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. 

 ~ Jessica Archmint

Music of the Earth

The earth has music for those who listen.

~ George Santayana

Trio of Colors

Colors are the smiles of nature. 

 - Leigh Hunt

Patches of Color

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors. 

 ~ John Ruskin

 Virginia Tech Duck Pond - Blacksburg, Virginia

 

Leaf Peeping

Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.

 ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Dew Drops

If I be just a page torn out of a book, 

May I sail forever over the oceans blue, 

 Float over the treetops and the mountains too, 

Drift across the valleys and the flowers look, 

Until at last, I rest and kiss the morning dew. 

 -Nancy B. Brewer

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Sunrise and Rainbow

I chased the sunrise...

And got a Bonus Rainbow!

Breathe.  Let go.  And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Decorated by Nature

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

~Hamlin Garland

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A Place To Rest

Everything needs a break.

- Toba Beta