Music Exalts Life

"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music." --Thomas Carlyle This is one of my favo...

The Lone Sunflower

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." --Helen Keller We have one, lone sun...

Go Outside and Plant Something!

"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds." ~Robert Bridges, One of my fav...

Weekly Words to Live By

"Life is meant to be lived fully, and enjoyed deeply, and our homes are the great backdrop upon which our lives unfold. They are where...

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! These vintage framed Mother's Day poems are a few in my collection found over the years. They remind us today to...

May Flowers

Bouquet of Roses from Friday night's dinner party. Pitcher of Lilacs from my backyard bush. Urn full of Foxgloves in my entry. Pot of Su...

Ode to Dexter Dog

"He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me that can reach out in...