Light House

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author (1850 - 1894)

Grey Whale

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

~Jennie Jerome Churchill

For Robin

She wanted something to happen - something, anything.

~Kate Chopin

Douglas Squirrel and Hank

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for.
~Anonymous

The Beach

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
~Phillip Lopate

Green-winged Teal

Live the life you've dreamed.
~Henry David Thoreau

Tree Frog

"Joy is not in things, it is in us."
~ Richard Wagner

Ring-necked Duck

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

~John Muir

Secrets

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~George Eliot

Woodland Skipper butterfly

Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace within the storm.
~ Unknown

The last hummer

"This is now, and now is all there is."
~ KerrdeLune

Beyond the Fields We Know

The Sky is falling

"The sky is falling"
~Chicken Little