August 16, 2015 {228/365}
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” - Kurt Vonnegut
August 15, 2015 {227/365} Wooden Boats
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
August 14, 2015 {226/365} White Hydrangeas
“White is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously as when He paints in white.” — G. K. Chesterton
August 13, 2015 {225/365} Birdhouse
“Home is the nicest word there is.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder
August 12, 2015 {224/365} Okauchee Lake
"A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable." - William Wordsworth
{A lovely evening with good friends, good wine, and a sky full of meteors}
August 11, 2015 {223/365} Zinnias
"She is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.” - Mary Howitt
These colorful zinnias remind me of being a little girl in the 1970s when I had flower patches on my bell-bottoms, zinnias on my lunch box (before I traded it in for a new one featuring The Hardy Boys) and plastic flowers on the basket of my pink bike.
Last week, my mom gave me this adult coloring book with "groovy" designs reminiscent of the flowers I doodled on my school notebooks and the patterns I created with my spirograph
For more fun flashbacks, visit my "Growing Up" Pinterest board.
