A Big Heart

 "He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, 

 and he who plants kindness gathers love." 

 ~ St. Basil

A very large leaf seen at our local Horticulture Garden from a prior summer.

This type of plant is called Caladium and they produce really large leaves.

I thought it looked like a Big Heart.

Love Is a Canvas

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature 

and embroidered by imagination. 

~ Voltaire

Print Available - HERE 

Patterns In Nature

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. 

~ Jane Austen

Available - HERE 

Surrounded by Hearts

Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

 ― Louis Wilson

Blue Jay surrounded by heart shaped leaves..... well, they look like hearts to me :)

More of my "Heart" images - HERE 

5 Thoughts On Love

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu 

 Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

― Maya Angelou

 Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

 ― Zelda Fitzgerald 

 It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

 ― Mother Teresa 

 Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

 ― Leo Buscaglia

Life Is Good

Life is good, 
even though we forget it sometimes. 

 — Abraham M. Alghanem

Heart shaped leaf found on my morning walk. 

I took this with my iPhone

I just LOVE finding Hearts in Nature!

Change Your World

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? 
Make kindness your modus operandi 
and change your world. 

~ Annie Lennox

A Version of this image - HERE 

 

Refreshing

May the blessing of God's soft rain be on you, 

Falling gently on your head, refreshing your soul 

With the sweetness of little flowers newly blooming. 

May the strength of the winds of Heaven bless you, 

Carrying the rain to wash your spirit clean 

Sparkling after in the sunlight. 

May the blessing of God's earth be on you, 

And as you walk the roads, 

May you always have a kind word for those you meet. 

An Irish Blessing

Print Available - HERE 

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

 

The Smallest Things

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

Hearts in Nature - Frosted Heart

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. 
~Washington Irving

About the image: Seen during a morning walk 
Izaak Walton Park - Christiansburg, Virginia 

Print Available - HERE 

Nature's Glow

In Nature's Glow ~ My Soul Delights

  Deerfield Trail - Blacksburg, VA

Shooting into the light is a no-no - but I love the way leaves look when they are backlit. I also love finding hearts in nature - and the very bottom one looks like a heart to me :)

The Greatest Science

The greatest science in the world; 
in heaven and on earth; is love.

~Mother Teresa

A little bit of love ~ smooths the rough edges.

Another "heart shape" I have found in nature ..... can you see it?

An Unwrinkled Heart

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent -that is to triumph over old age. 
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

One of my favorite things to do when I am out walking is to try to find "shapes" in nature. Can you see the heart shape in this leaf?

Heart Afloat

"Love one another and you will be happy. 

 It's as simple and as difficult as that."

~Michael Leunig

Print Available - HERE 

From the Eye to the Heart

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. 

~ G. K. Chesterton