Dog Cat lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Bailey, 12-2017

Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone. Do not be troubled by the future, for it has yet to come. Instead, live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

~ Ida Scott Taylor

Hibiscus, Alicante, Spain 05-2006

You can’t step into the same river twice.

~ Heraclitus of Ephesus

Snake River, Massacre Rocks State Park, Idaho 2008

Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.

~ Publilius Syrus

Stork Nest with Fledgling, Villablino, Spain 05-2006

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers.

~ James Thurber

Beetle Making Tracks, Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas 2007

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Dad and Baby Bighorn Sheep, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson 2014

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one’s capacity.

~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Solitary Sandpiper, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.

~ Margaret Peters

Sun Petroglyph, Saguaro National Park TMD, Tucson, Arizona 2009

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says I will try again tomorrow.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Izu, African Lion, San Diego Wild Animal Park, California 2008

As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name,

and may you answer, “Yes!”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Fungi, Northern California 2005