"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere." ~Vincent Van Gogh

 

It is not so much for its beauty 

that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, 

as for that subtle 
something, 

that quality of 
air 

that emanation 

from old 
trees, 

that so wonderfully 

changes 

and renews 

a weary 

spirit.  

 ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Zion National Park in black and white.

March 2012

 

"It is not down in any map; true places never are." ~Herman Melville

It is good to feel lost... 

because it proves 

you have a navigational sense of where 

"Home" is.  

You know that a place 

that feels like 

being found 

exists.  

And 

maybe your current location

 isn't that place 

but, 

Hallelujah,

 that unsettled, 

uneasy feeling of 

lost-ness 

just brought you closer 

to it.  

~Erika Harris

An amazing trip out west with my son.

Vegas, Valley of Fire State Park, Zion National Park Utah, RedRock Canyon.

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it" ~Confucius

"On a windswept

hill
by a billowing sea,
my destiny 

sits
and waits for 

me."
 

~Robert Brault

 A Gentle snow falls over Chatham.

Cape Cod, 

2012

"It is a happy talent to know how to play." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In my soul, 

I am 

still that small child 

who did not care about anything else 

but the beautiful colors 

of 
a rainbow."

~Papiha Ghosh

On the bay with David and Daisy.

Brewster, Cape Cod.

2012

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen. ~Terri Guillemets

"The family.  

We were a strange little band of characters 

trudging through life 

sharing diseases 

and toothpaste, 

coveting one another's desserts, 

hiding shampoo, 

borrowing money, 

locking each other out of our rooms, 

inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, 

loving, 

laughing, 

defending, 

and trying to figure out 

the common thread 

that bound us all 

 together." 

~Erma Bombeck

A Christmas visit from my family

December 2011