Wilderness Wednesday: Our House

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Our house, was our castle and our keep
Our house, in the middle of our street*

Our house is located by the second tree, on the left. It’s hardly a castle, but it is home. All the trees on our street looked beautiful last Thursday afternoon, but our first winter storm wreaked havoc on the leaves through the night. It made raking leaves on Saturday a rather interesting job! I quit after filling 4 bags of leaves…all from what fell on the driveway…because my fingers were frozen. Even with mittens on. I wonder how many bags it will take to finish the job?

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home. – Edith Sitwell

(It’s also a good time for hot chocolate!)

Happy Wednesday!

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Our House lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songwriters: Carl Smyth / Chris Foreman / Daniel Woodgate / Garaham McPherson / Lee Thompson / Mark Bedford / Michael Barson

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WPC: Waiting

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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen

Waiting for Spring…

March 2017

Waiting for Fall…

September 2017

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. Robert Browning

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WPC: Evanescent

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Evanescent is an adjective meaning quickly fading or disappearing from sight, memory or existence.

“The apple blossoms’ shower of pearl, though blent with rosier hue, as beautiful as woman’s blush, as evanescent too. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Wilderness Wednesday: Resilient Oak

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“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.”
– Albert Schweitzer

Happy Wednesday!

WPC: Walk in the Fog

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Despite the fact that it was drizzling Monday afternoon, it was also warm, and the leaves were displaying their splendor. I went for a short walk along the bike path around 3 in the afternoon.

 

As you can see, I wasn’t the only one enjoying the leaves on the bike path! Half an hour later, the fog was so thick, you couldn’t see the trees, so I’m thankful I took my spontaneous walk when I did. Just imagine these trees on a sunny day! Magnificent!

“Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.” – Gail Sheehy

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Wilderness Wednesday: Change of Scenery

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“Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.” – Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Today’s photo is compliments of my parents, who have been enjoying some southern hospitality in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Love you Mom & Dad.

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: Icy Trees

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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin

Happy Wednesday!

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons

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“…Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Keramos

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Wilderness Wednesday: Birches

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“I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
– Robert Frost

Wilderness Wednesday: Early Morning

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“The person who doesn’t scatter the dew will not comb gray hairs.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -or a meaningful day.” – Dalai Lama