Creativity takes courage.
~ Henri Matisse

Purple Martin Bird Houses, Fort Smith, Arkansas 2007
Creativity takes courage.
~ Henri Matisse

Purple Martin Bird Houses, Fort Smith, Arkansas 2007
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.
~ Rumi

Leaf, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
Frondesce: verb. The unfurling of leaves. As in, the fern was frondescing.

Furled fern frond, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Dillard

Bark, Lake Bob Sandlin State Park, Texas 2007
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
~ Mary Oliver

Yellow-bellied Marmot, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
~ Albert Einstein

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck family, Cooper Lake State Park, Texas 2007
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
~ George Elliot

Dragonfly, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2011
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Isak Dinesen

Pacific Ocean, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018

A magazine for each end of the spectrum! Santa Fe, New Mexico 2010
Dog Cat lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Bailey, 12-2017