(Sunlight on snow and hoar frost.)
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
~ Rachel Carson
Beauty
(Winter’s blanket.)
Kindness is like snow — it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Author unknown
More pink here, if you please.
~ Franz Liszt
I’ve been working with some colorful photos for the past few days, trying to brighten and warm things up a little during these cold winter months.
If this photo looks familiar to you, there’s a good reason for that. It’s a repeat. But I like the fiery pink so much that I decided it was worth another look at it. It’s been tweaked a little since I last posted it, but not enough to make a big difference. Instead, just enough to bring out the pink a little more.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have eyes to see them.
~ John Ruskin
I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man’s spiritual growth.
~ Rachel Carson
An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be a state of rapture and ecstasy in which the soul comes to the foreground, and the literal concerns of survival and daily preoccupation at least momentarily fade into the background.
~ Thomas Moore
When the emotions are strong one should paint bamboo; in a light mood one should paint the orchid.
~ Chueh Yin
(Maddy.)
… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.
~ Sarah Ban Brethnach
(Sun catcher on a rainy day in December.)
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
~ Buddha
(Magnolia blossom.)
Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Bountiful Healing 