Streaming

The sun streaming through the trees is a beauty like no other.

Grow

I love my mother 

as the trees love water and sunshine - 

she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.  

~Terri Guillemets~

Feel Better Mommy.

I Love You.

One Friend

Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.

 ~ Esther M. Clark~

Memorial Day

More than an end to war,

 we want an end to the beginning of all wars -

- yes, an end to this brutal, 

inhuman and thoroughly impractical 

method of settling the 

differences between governments.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

Happy Birthday Dave

Have a fantastic Birthday Dave!

Happy 12th Birthday Sarah!!!

Happy  Birthday

Sarah!

I can not believe that my little girl

is 12.

You are such a 

wonderful, crazy, awesome, neat,

crazy, quirky, and amazing

person.

Thank you for being you 

in all you do and all you are.

I am so very proud to call you

My Daughter!

I Love you more than you could 

ever know.

Life isn't about finding yourself. 

 Life is about creating yourself.
~George Bernard Shaw~

What You See

Some people see a cactus.

Some people see a crooked green pitchfork.

Life's all about what you see.

Home

Home is a name, 

a word,

 it is a strong one; 

stronger than magician ever spoke, 

or spirit ever answered to, 

in the strongest conjuration. 

 ~Charles Dickens~

WELCOME HOME BABY!!!

Left Turn

I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque!

~Bugs Bunny~

I will stick with my Tofu

Recognize meat for what it really is:

  the antibiotic- 

and 

pesticide-laden

 corpse

 of a tortured 

animal.  

~Ingrid Newkirk~

Life Finds A Way

"If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, ah, well, there it is.....Life finds a way"

~Dr. Ian Malcom~

~Jurassic Park~

To every single nerd (like myself) who is reading this:

Did you hear Jeff Goldblum in your head?

For Every Day

For every day that there is sunshine,

 there will be days of rain,
It's how we dance within them both

 that shows our 

love and pain.
~Joey Tolbert~

National Salad Month

Yesterday we celebrated our 2nd annual National Salad Month: Vegan Edition.

With a tasty fruit salad of strawberries and bananas, green salad with ranch, a southwestern three bean salad, spinach salad with a raspberry vinaigrette topped with tofu, , and the most amazing vegan potato salad ever; we were happy diners!

Such a tasty dinner with good friends.

Grab yourself a tasty salad and enjoy national salad month!

Out of Nature

 

Each flower 

is a soul blossoming 

out to nature.
~ Gerard De Nerval~

Open Your Eyes

Open your eyes to the world.

See what is beautiful.

Change what isn't.

Open

Your

Eyes

Stratum upon Stratum

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history,

 stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book,

 to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly,

 but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, 

which precede flowers and fruit - not a fossil earth,

 but a living earth;

 compared with whose great central life 

all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Great Art

Great art picks up where nature ends.  

~Marc Chagall~

What You Are

If you are loving, 

if you are friendly, 

if you are helpful, 

the World will prove loving 

and friendly and helpful to you.  

The World is what you are.
~Thomas Dreier~  

Happy Mother's Day

From our Happy Hippies to yours!

May your Mother's Day be filled with love and joy!

The Key to My Destiny

My will shall shape my future. 

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. 

I am the force;

 I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. 

My choice; 

my responsibility;

 win or lose, 

only I hold the key to my destiny.
~ Elaine Maxwell~

Happy Birthday Mommy

I miss you.

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces, of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
They're really sayin', "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more, than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh yeah

~Louis Armstrong~

Count

 

Count the garden by the flowers, 

never by the leaves that fall. 

 Count your life with smiles 

and not the tears that roll. 

 ~Author Unknown~

If That Doesn't Make You Smile....

What will?

Determination to Live

I suppose the pleasure of country life
 lies really in the
 eternally renewed evidences of 
the determination to live. 
 ~Vita Sackville-West~

Be like a Flower

Be like a flower

 and

 turn your face to

 the sun.

~Kahlil Gibran~

Hear Their Voices

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky,

 stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant,

 sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside -

 children have their own agendas and timescales. 

 As they find out more about their world and their place in it,

 they work hard not to let adults hurry them.  

We need to hear their voices.

  ~Cathy Nutbrown~

Meow Meow the Small and Mighty

A cat is not merely diverted by everything that moves, 

but is convinced that all nature is occupied exclusively with catering to her diversion.

~Francois Auguste Paradis De Moncrif~

Eternal

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche,

that must have been left behind in the Sixties, 

that's his problem.

 Love and Peace are Eternal.

~ John Lennon~

Therapy

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

~Author Unknown~

Rejoicing

Life is huge! 

 Rejoice about the sun, moon, flowers, and sky.  

Rejoice about the food you have to eat. 

 Rejoice about the body that houses your spirit. 

Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force

 in the world around you. 

Rejoice about the love that is around you. 

 If you want to be happy, 

commit to making your life one of 

rejoicing.
~ Author Unknown~ 

Aubrey

Aubrey wasn't feeling well this week.

Feel better sweet wonderful doggie!

I love you!