A Black and White Bow For My Wreath

White-crowned Sparrow 

A Black and White Bow for My Feeder Wreath.
More info on how I made my 
Bird Feeder Wreath - HERE 

   Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Pleasure In Simple Things

Slow down, take pleasure on the simple things of life, heal your soul from the wounds caused by the fast pace of society

~ Martin Suarez

Naturescape

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. 

~ Vernon Howard

This  image available 
- HERE

Simply Blue

Blue Jay poses outside on my deck (taken thru the sliding glass door)

...life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Embracing The Simple Things

 Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

  ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Simple Things and Great Pleasure

I have found that some of the simplest things have given me the most pleasure. They didn't cost me a lot of money either. They just worked on my senses. Did you ever pick very large blueberries after a summer rain Walk through a grove of cottonwoods, open like a park, and see the blue sky beyond the shimmering gold of the leaves? Pull on dry woolen socks after you've peeled off the wet ones? Come in out of the subzero and shiver yourself warm in front of a wood fire? The world is full of such things. 

 ~ Richard Proenneke

I'm adding to his list of simple things:  

Birds Singing, Bees Buzzing, Butterflies Fluttering

What are some of the simple things in life that bring you great pleasure?

Simple Surroundings

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.

~Author Unknown

About the image: As you can tell - we have an abundance of cardinals in my area. They seems to appear on my blog regularly. I feel VERY blessed to have them.

Female Cardinal - Simple Joy

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Carried By The Wind

I'm a Wild Seed Again, Let the Wind Carry Me

Joni Mitchell

Monarch Butterfly In Flight - A Simple Blessing

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.

- John McLeod


A Different Version Available 
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Black Swallowtail Butterfly

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. 
~ Eleonora Duse

Morning Dew Drops

 How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! 
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dew drops on wildflowers ~ 
One of life's simple pleasures

Prints Available -
Here 

Don't Overlook Life's Small Joys

Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones. 
 ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Remember my fascination with benches and leaves?

I also have a

fascination with fence posts.

Finding pleasure in the simple things :) 

A Version of this image is 
Available - HERE 

You are always free to do something that makes you smile.

~ Unknown

A Pathway, A Bench and More Trees

The leaf covered pathway that leads down to Pandapas Pond from the parking area

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good. 

~ Terri Guillemets

The Quote Garden