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.

Breathe In the World

 "Take a step, breathe in the world, 

give it out again in story, poem, song, art." 

~ Jane Yolen

Autumn - When Every Leaf is a Flower

 "Autumn is a second spring 

when every leaf is a flower." 

~ Albert Camus

Captured during our walk along the Plantation Road

side of the Huckleberry Trail - 10-18-24 

August Leaf 2

"It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last." 

- William Barrett

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August Leaf 1

"Time does not change us. 

 It just unfolds us." 

- Max Frisch

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Poinsettia Leaf Macro

"There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives." 

 ~ Josephine Hart

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The Measure of Leaves

"Leaves drift softly earthward toward the grass
 Spring and summer blend from green to gold ...

Corby Magnuson, The Measure of Leaves



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Leaf in the Wildflowers

"Happily we bask in this warm September sun, Which illuminates all creatures..." 

 - Henry David Thoreau

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Heart In The Forest

Less is more unless it's love. 

~ Ben Mittleman

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Afloat

 "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time 

like dew on the tip of a leaf." 

~ Rabindranath Tagore 

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Every Leaf A Flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

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Don't Worry - Be Happy

Peace begins with a smile..

― Mother Teresa

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The Little Things

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. 

 ― Andy Warhol

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Dream-Dust

Gather out of star-dust, 

Earth-dust, 

Cloud-dust, 

Storm-dust, 

And splinters of hail, 

One handful of dream-dust, 

Not for sale.

 ― Langston Hughes

Have you read this poem before? 

 I just read it this morning ...... and it really spoke to me.

We all need a handful of dream-dust!!

My interpretation of dream-dust is that little sprinkle of confidence in your mind that you can actually attain your dreams!  I'm not sure if that is the way he meant it or if he meant it in terms of sleep.  

Nature Is All Aglow

Just before the death of flowers, 
 And before they are buried in snow, 
 There comes a festival season 
 When nature is all aglow.
- Unknown

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Icy Weather

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. 

 ― Dr. Seuss

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

When Every Leaf Is A Flower

Autumn is a second spring 
when every leaf is a flower. 

~  Albert Camus

 Heritage Park

Blacksburg, Virginia

5 Thoughts On Kindness

 What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? 

~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. 

~ Charlie Chaplin

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. 

~ Bob Kerrey

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. 

~ Henry James

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. 

~ Sarah Fielding

In my opinion - Kindness is the best gift you can give - and the best gift you can receive.

Falling in Love

When I catch a glimpse

of their colors, of their shape,

I fall in love again

with each and every one:

Leaves