Shine like the whole universe is yours.
~ Rumi

Rosehip, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park, Bristol, Maine 2007
Shine like the whole universe is yours.
~ Rumi

Rosehip, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park, Bristol, Maine 2007
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
~ Theodore N. Vail

Green Anole, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia 2007
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot

American Coot, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
~ Albert Einstein

Javelina Rears, Tucson, Arizona 2010
Light tomorrow with today.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Clark’s Nutcracker, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon 2008
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
~ Anon

Fog Drip on Sitka Spruce, Cape Meares, Oregon 2018
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~ James Allen

Bison, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010

Spotted recently in SE Portland. Don’t you just want to meet this cat? Some neighborhood lady is missing her garden gloves, and some little boy is very sad because he can’t find his Batman cape.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
~ Oscar Wilde

Sailboat at Sunset, Ventura, California 2014
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
~ Alice Walker

Elk Fording River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2008