We’re all just walking each other home.

~ Ram Dass

Following the Light, Treasure Island, Florida June 2020

It is far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
~ William L. Watkinson

Buttonbush, Walsingham Park, Largo, Florida May 2020

Do what you feel in your heart to be right –

for you’ll be criticized anyway.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Leaf, Walsingham Park, Largo, Florida May 2020

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.

~ L.R. Knost

Day’s End, Walsingham Park, Largo, Florida May 2020

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

~ Henry Miller

Water Lily, Largo, Florida April 2020

Be humble, for you are made of earth.

Be noble, for you are made of stars.

~ Serbian Proverb

Juvenile Alligator, Largo, Florida March 2020

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful –

an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

~ Ansel Adams

Treasure Island Sunset, Florida February 2020

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Colorful Composite, Treasure Island, Florida January 2020

Marbled Godwit in a Flock of Willets, Treasure Island, Florida December 2019

Dare to be different. Dare to be bold. Stand out in a crowd…

Why would anyone want to fit in a mold? Be original. Be amazing. Be you!

~ Anonymous

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Dewy Flower, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018