6-30-07-- Saturday

"take time to smell the roses
before it is too late:
today is full of promise
tomorrow will not wait."

-- marilyn ferguson

6-29-07-- Friday pedestrian and pedal power! “simplify, simplify.” -- henry david thoreau

6-27-07-- Wednesday

"... you dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art."

-- rumi

6-26-07-- Tuesday

"again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth. all the sounds dear ... were around me - the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails... little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory."

-- wynford vaughan-thomas

6-25-07-- Monday
fire trucks were pulling out just as I was passing by!



"life is slippery.
here, take my hand."

-- h. jackson brown, jr.

6-24-07-- Sunday “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should…” -- max ehrmann

6-23-07-- Saturday


"color is the language
of the soul of the universe."

-- rudolf steiner

6-22-07-- Friday
self portrait

"the thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect, and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

-- anna quindlen
(1953 - )

6-21-07-- thursday
summer solstice: longest day of the year.
catching the last rays of the sun.

"then followed that beautiful season... summer...
filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light;
and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."

-- henry wadsworth longfellow

6-20-07-- Wednesday
pizza delivery!

"things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."

-- art linkletter

6-19-07-- Tuesday

"nothing needs so reforming as
other people's habits."

mark twain

6-18-07-- Monday
another evening bike ride shot! go leg power!


"think of bicycles as rideable art
that can just about save the world."

-- grant petersen

6-17-07-- Sunday
evening bike ride

"nothing compares to the simple pleasure
of a bike ride."

john kennedy

6-16-07-- Saturday
Happy Fathers' Day to all the dads and grand-dads who guide, protect, cherish, and nourish our young'uns.


"we cannot all do great things,
but we can do small things with great love."

mother teresa

6-15-07-- Friday movies on the lawn (1of 2) “some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity…” -- gilda radner

movies on the lawn- behind the screen!

6-14-07-- Thursday
Duke Gardens duck

"everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

-- albert einstein

6-13-07-- Wednesday “good morning! a new day, a new gift. help us to open our hearts with love and to use our will with joy, so that the gift of this day will be a blessing for the future.” -- rudolf steiner

6-12-07-- Tuesday
at the grocer



"color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

-- claude monet

6-11-07-- Monday


"I go to nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in tune once more."

-- john burroughs

6-10=07-- Sunday
my favorite cottage in chapel hill

"could you coo, could you care
for a cunning cottage
that we could share
the world will pardon my mush
cause I have got a crush, my baby, on you"

frank sinatra, lyrics- I've got a crush on you

6-9-07-- Saturday
dedicated to my daughter who graduated from high school today. she has done exceedingly well!


"I walk with
beauty before me,
beauty behind me,
beauty above me,
beauty below me,
beauty all around me."


-- navajo

6-8-07-- Friday barefeet preferred for romping on the lawn. found beside a picnic blanket, owners absent! "going barefoot is the gentlest way of walking and can symbolise a way of living — being authentic, vulnerable, sensitive to our surroundings. It's the feeling of enjoying warm sand beneath our toes, or carefully making our way over sharp rocks in the darkness. it's a way of living that has the lightest impact, removing the barrier between us and nature." -- adele coombs, "barefoot dreaming"

6-7-07-- Thursday
listened to music-on-the-lawn at Weaver Street Market by the Carolina Chocolate Drops! stayed late and experimented with night photography. (see second photo!) absolutely lovely summery-evening!


"this moment contains all moments."

-- c.s. lewis


carolina chocolate drop's website:

http://www.sankofastrings.com/ccd/

nothin' like maple view ice cream after dark!


http://www.mapleviewfarm.com/






a few more photos here:

http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1365075

6-6-07-- Wednesday

"if the only prayer you said
in your whole life was,
'thank you,' that would suffice."

-- marcel proust

6-5-07-- Tuesday



"let Nature be your teacher."

-- william wordsworth




a book I highly recommend:
"last child in the woods" by richard louv

6-4-07-- Monday

"good friends are like stars.
you don't always see them,
but you know they are there."

-- old saying

6-3-07-- Sunday
breakfast at our local diner- ye olde waffle shop on franklin street- established 1972

"sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."


-- lewis carroll, alice in wonderland




a few more photos here:

http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1340241/1/150986162

6-2-07-- Saturday

"once we believe in ourselves,
we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight,
or any experience
that reveals the human spirit."


-- e e cummings

6-1-07-- Friday
self-portrait inside the UNC-CH Old Well water fountain!

"there is not a short life or a long life.
there is only the life that you have,
and the life you have is the life you are given,
the life you work with.
it has its own shape,
describes its own arc,
and is perfect."

-- greek saying

5-31-07-- Thursday

"pleasure is the flower that passes;
remembrance, the lasting perfume."

-- jean de boufflers

5-30-07-- Wednesday
farmers' market


"humankind has not woven the web of life. we are but one thread within it. whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. all things are bound together. all things connect."

-- chief seattle, 1855

5-29-07-- Tuesday
studying on the quad in front of the Old Well

"it is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known,
but to question it."

-- jacob bronowski

5-28-07-- Monday
in step

"lovers don't finally meet somewhere...
they're in each other all along."

-- rumi

5-27-07-- Sunday

"be true to your work,
your word,
and your friend."


-- henry david thoreau

5-26-07-- Saturday
before the outdoor music concert

"life is short and we have not too much time
for gladdening the hearts of those
who are traveling the dark way with us.
oh, be swift to love! make haste to be kind."


-- henri-frederic amiel - 1885

5-25-07-- Friday

"the longer I live,
the more beautiful life becomes."


-- frank lloyd wright

5-24-07-- Thursday

"you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose"

-- ee cummings

5-23-07-- Wednesday
modern day "thinker"



"it's not that I'm so smart,
it's just that I stay with problems longer."

-- albert einstein

5-22-07-- Tuesday
picnics on the lawn at weaver street market.

"a friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."

-- ralph waldo emerson

http://www.weaverstreetmarket.com/community/index.php

5-21-07-- Monday

"you and I
are suddenly what the trees
try to tell us we are:
that their merely being there
means something; that soon
we may touch, love, explain."

-- john ashbery, some trees

5-20-07-- Sunday
watching the bunny!


"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

the velveteen rabbit

5-19-07-- Saturday

"a best friend is like a four leaf clover:
hard to find and lucky to have."

-- author unknown

5-18-07-- Friday
sweet magnolia blossom


"to love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

-- david viscott

5-17-07-- Thursday

"ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
the river glideth at his own sweet will."

-- william wordsworth

5-16-07-- Wednesday

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder
for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished
by that circumstance that I should have been by
any epaulet I could have worn."

-- henry david thoreau