"If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame." ~Adam Duritz

The best things in life are nearest:
Breath in your nostrils,
light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet,
duties at your hand,
the path of right just before you.
Then
do not grasp at the stars,
but do life's
plain,
common work
as it comes,
certain that daily duties
and daily bread
are the sweetest things
in life.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down." ~W. Migner

"To be nobody but yourself
in a world
which is doing its best,
night and day,
to make you everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight;

and never stop fighting."

~e.e. cummings

images taken on a beautiful
November afternoon.
Brewster, Cape Cod 2010

"Make your feet your friend." ~J.M. Barrie

"To poke a wood fire
is more solid enjoyment
than almost anything else
in the world."

~Charles Dudley Warner

I love my fireplace.
November 2010.

"Peace - that was the other name for home." ~Kathleen Norris

"A wind has blown
the rain away
and blown the sky away
and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand.
I think,
I too,
have known autumn too long."

e.e. cummings

images taken on a chilly, rainy
November day. 2010