Quoth She

I started a second blog. This one incorporates two things I have loved since high school: quotes and photography. I have been collecting quotes since my sophomore year. I even put together a scrapbook of favorite quotes and illustrated them with cards or pictures cut from magazines. Through the years, I have added several million more, and have been posting a "thought for the day" on the board every school day for years now. (OK. A million might be an exaggeration. Hyperbole is right up there with sarcasm as my mother tongue.) I guess my new blog kind of takes that scrapbooking creativity to a different level.

That same year of high school, I became a yearbook photographer and learned to develop my own black and white photos in the school dark room. With a camera that showed the image upside down, I learned to see the world a little differently through the eye of the camera. It was fun to see the pictures appear 'magically' under my fingers, but the new digital cameras make photography much more enjoyable and much less stressful. (You know immediately whether the shot worked, if people's eyes were open, or if you shook the camera a bit or missed your focus.)

Stop by and see the new place here: Quoth She. The quotes are borrowed. The pictures are mine.

Happy As Kings

The world is so full of a number of things,

I'm sure we should all be as happy

as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing Lacking

Be content with what you have,

rejoice in the way things are.

When you realize there is nothing lacking,

the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

Sunshine in my soul

I took this picture on the way to school yesterday.

And by 10:00 the sun was out.

By 2:00 the clouds were back.

By 5:00, nothing but sunshine! A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

William Arthur Ward

At Last

Warm weather is here. This is a very late spring for us. The trees are gradually turning green. Not completely in full leaf, but getting there. Reminds me of the Sara Teasdale Poem..."And spring herself, when she woke at dawn--would scarcely know that we were gone." I wonder if spring has any idea how eagerly she is anticipated.

What Rivers and Creeks Know

Rivers know this: there is no hurry.

We shall get there some day.

A. A. Milne

Sunshine and Shadow

Keep your face to the sunshine,

and the shadow will always fall behind you.

Spring Showers, Wet Flowers

Earth laughs in flowers.

The Best Portion

The best portion of a good man's life;

His little, nameless acts

of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

If you look here you'll see what these creeping phlox looked like a week ago as 6 inches of snow was melting. Ah, spring-- are you here at last?

In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost

Relish Small Pleasures

Think big thoughts,

but relish small pleasures.

And miles to go before I sleep...

miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

I expect to pass through this world but once;

any good thing therefore that I can do,

or any kindness that I can show

to any fellow creature, let me do it now;

let me not defer or neglect it,

for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet

There's a song in every silence, seeking word and melody;

There's a dawn in every darkness, bringing hope

to you and me.

From the past will come the future; what it holds, a mystery,

Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.

Hymn of Promise

"Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to

recognize in your humdrum routine,

as perhaps it may be thought,

the true poetry of life."

Sir William Oster

Work is love made visible.

Kahlil Gibran

Photo: Picture of a Yearbook staff picture

One ought, every day at least,...

To hear a little song,

Read a good poem,

See a fine picture,

And, if it were possible,

To speak a few reasonable words.

Goethe