"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

"Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world." ~Murasaki Shikibu

"To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air
and the water
exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk
or an evening saunter...
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest
or a wildflower in spring -
these are some of the rewards
of the simple life."

~John Burroughs

images taken in a late October Chatham fog.
Chatham, Cape Cod.
2010

"If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine." ~Author Unknown

"I am often accused of being childish.

I prefer to interpret that as
child-like.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.
I tend to exaggerate
and fantasize
and embellish.
I still listen to instinctual urges.
I play with leaves.
I skip down the street
and run against the wind.
I never water my garden without soaking myself.
It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity
and produced my best work."

~Leo F. Buscaglia

Child and Life Photography
by Joanna Vaughan.
2010

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." ~Sara Teasdale

We have a choice every day -
to act on yesterday's good intentions
or get an early start
on tomorrow's regrets.

~Robert Brault

image taken at Rock Harbor, Orleans.
Cape Cod.
October 2010

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." — Deepak Chopra

"Anyone can carry his burden,
however hard,
until nightfall.
Anyone can do his work,
however hard,
for one day.
Anyone can live sweetly,
patiently,
lovingly,
purely,
till the sun goes down.
And this is all life really means."

~Robert Louis Stevenson

images of Stage Harbor Lighthouse &
Hardings Beach at dusk.
Chatham, Cape Cod.

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." ~Henry David Thoreau

"I stroll along
serenely,
with my eyes,
my shoes
my rage,
forgetting everything."

~Pablo Neruda

images taken on a walk
before the rain.
Mant's Landing, Cape Cod Bay, Brewster