One of the wonderful things about being alive is that it’s never too late.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney

Monarch Butterfly, Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa 2009
One of the wonderful things about being alive is that it’s never too late.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney

Monarch Butterfly, Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa 2009
Psithurism: noun, The sound of the wind through the trees.
It was windy out here on the Oregon Coast yesterday. The sand skimmed along the beach in its hurry to move south. Blustery days like that I prefer to stroll through the woods; not only am I protected from the gusts but I am treated to a symphony as the air rustles the leaves and needles above.

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be…because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri 2009
First, is the crick in my neck from staring up into the tree tops looking for small, flitting birds. Warbler Neck:

Then comes the strain from peering down at the beach, looking for treasures in the sand. We call it Agate Neck (which doesn’t tell the entire story but sea glass-shell-driftwood-petrified wood-fossil-zeolite-jasper-agate neck doesn’t have quite the same ring to it).

Thank goodness for the neutrally balanced pose called Whale Neck! (Yes, I know, not the best photo but the best one I’ve snapped thus far).

Don’t be willing to accept an ordinary life.
~ Salle Merrill Redfield

Brewer’s Blackbird, Bodega Bay, California 2008
Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
~ Cathy Allen

Whale Weathervane, Monterey, California 2005
By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.
~ Edwin Elliot

Rock Squirrel, Tucson, Arizona 2015
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
~ Auguste Rodin

Queen Anne’s Lace, Ashland, Ohio 2009
So, according to this sign Joes, Jeffs, and Johns are allowed…

No Jakes sign, Cape Meares, Oregon 2018
“Why not?” is a slogan for an interesting life.
~ Mason Cooley

Pincushion bloom, Tucson, Arizona 2014