"Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled." ~Author Unknown

There is a privacy about it
which no other season gives you....
In spring,
summer
and fall
people sort of have
an open season on each other;
only in the winter,
in the country,
can you have longer,
quiet stretches
when you can savor
belonging to yourself.

~Ruth Stout

first snow storm of the season.
Brewster, Cape Cod 2010

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." ~John Muir

"There is nothing 
like returning to a place 
that remains 
unchanged
to find the ways 
in which you 
yourself 
 have altered."

~Nelson Mandela

Boston, MA
December 2010

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning." ~Carl Sandburg

Life
is the fire
that burns
and the sun
that gives light.
Life
is the wind
and the rain
and the thunder
in the sky.
Life
is matter
and is earth,
what is and
what is not,
and what beyond
is in
Eternity.

~Seneca

Taking a break from the Cape.
images taken on a road trip
to Boston.
December 2010

"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