tree debris

thought it was actually kinda pretty

:)

“'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince,
 'is that somewhere it hides a well.'” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"When I’ve gone the last mile of the way,
I will rest at the close of the day;
And I know there are joys that await me,
When I’ve gone the last mile of the way."

refrain from "The Last Mile of the Way", Johnson Oatman, Jr. (1908)

The Peace of Wild Things

BY WENDELL BERRY

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1998. 

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171140

trying to learn from the burn
extract lessons from the pain
and allow myself time for healing...

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength
that will endure as long as life lasts." ~ Rachel Carlson

soft

i love you to the moon and back 

touch

Faces 1 Pendant by sculpturist, George Wilhelm

Tatiana Gurina's art dolls (Russia)

“I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.” 

~ Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, by Barbara Brown Taylor

Little Night Scenes, by Faryn Davis - Fernworks

cucumber shades mushroom

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, 

but their echoes are truly endless.

 ~ Mother Teresa

leafy love

Sequoiahhhs

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

LOVE

sunset hike

lessens stress in life

~ Himalayan Blue Poppy ~

New Hampshire Nature  so much beauty, words escape me

Bougainvillea

who knew photos of bunnies could be so funny
invisibletoast (etsy)

"What I would really like said about me is that I dared to love. By love I mean that condition in the human spirit so profound, it encourages us to develop courage and build bridges, and then to cross the bridges in attempts to reach other human beings." ~ Maya Angelou