It’s not a good idea to jump into the sewer to catch a rat.
~ Anonymous

Hibiscus, Alicante, Spain 2006
It’s not a good idea to jump into the sewer to catch a rat.
~ Anonymous

Hibiscus, Alicante, Spain 2006
Happiness – A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Anonymous

Eastern Comma Butterfly, Glacier National Park, Montana 2018
Love without action is meaningless. Action without love is irrelevant.
~ Deepak Chopra

Carving on Driftwood, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
The beginning is always today.
~ Mary Shelly

Sea Lion, Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California 2005
Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.
~ Anonymous

Gateway, Newport Cliff Walk, Newport, Rhode Island 2007
One’s destination is never a place but a new way of looking at things.
~ Henry Miller

Swimming Snake, Cascade Lakes National Scenic Byway, Oregon 2008
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go: they merely determine where you start.
~ Nido Qubein

Boardwalk, Jackson-Frazier Wetland, Corvallis, Oregon 2018
I was in need of some nature time this past week so I visited the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. This wasn’t quite the kind of wildlife that I had in mind…

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
~ Emily Dickinson

Sand Patterns, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Colorado Chipmunk, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2010