3-30-07-- Friday
taken last night at a concert
by dervish, a celtic band from ireland.
"flowers and plants are silent presences:
they nourish every sense except the ear."
-- may sarton
a few more photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1629077
3-29-07-- Thursday
"hitch your wagon to a star."
-- emerson
"... every advance by humanity towards the ultimate goal, has been led by some valiant dreamer whose eyes were fixed upon the dawn..."
-- j.e. dinger
more spring flowers here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1336429
3-28-07-- Wednesday
"nature does nothing uselessly."
-- aristotle
3-27-06-- Tuesday
"in all things of nature
there is something of the marvelous."
-- aristotle
3-26-07-- Monday
first butterfly of the season!!
"joy is a net of love
by which you catch souls..."
-- mother teresa
3-25-07-- Sunday
solas, a celtic band, at the carrboro artscenter
flying fingers on the flute
"dance... the body can fly without wings.
it can sing without voice.
the dance is strong magic.
the dance is life."
-- pearl primus, dancer
more photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1629077
http://www.solasmusic.com/
http://www.artscenterlive.org/index.php?a=Music&b=Upcoming%20
3-24-07-- Saturday
crystal ball with me and my sister!
"in dwelling, live close to the ground.
in thinking, keep to the simple.
in conflict, be fair and generous.
in governing, don't try to control.
in work, do what you enjoy.
in family life, be completely present."
-- tao te ching
3-23-07-- Friday
"in the middle of everything
is the sun."
-- nicholas copernicus
3-22-07-- Thursday
"you are sitting on the earth,
and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. you are there-
fully, personally, genuinely."
-- chogyum trungpa
3-21-07-- Wednesday
"absence is to love what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
-- comte debussy-rabutin
3-20-07-- Tuesday
first day of spring! beautiful bambino in a backpack bunting.
"there is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit -
and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place."
-- virginia kelley
3-19-07-- Monday
in spite of a cold morning, by afternoon, it was a lovely day for a walk in the unc-ch arboretum. this while taking photos of the flowering groundcover!
"walking is man's best medicine."
-- hippocrates
greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)
here's the link to flower photos:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1336429
3-18-07-- Sunday
eastern bluebird :)
"The male's call includes sometimes soft warbles of jeew or chir-wi or the melodious song chiti WEEW wewidoo (Sibley, 2000)." Wikipedia
"life sems to go on without effort,
when I am filled with music."
-- george elliot
3-17-07-- Saturday
"life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope -
a slight change, and all patterns alter."
-- sharon salzberg
3-16-07-- Friday
a vase of good cheer on a cold, dark, and rainy day
"life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. life is the wind and the rain and the thunder
in the sky. life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in eternity."
-- upanishads
3-15-07-- Thursday
"... here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)..."
-- e. e. cummings
(bonne nuit a tous)
3-14-07-- Wednesday
this is a two-fer. city-country kin.
"when music sounds, gone is the earth I know.
and all her lovely things lovelier grow."
-- walter de la mare
3-14-07-- Wednesday
this is a two-fer. city-country kin.
"there is nothing as strong as tenderness,
and nothing as tender as true strength."
-- saint francis de sales
3-13-07-- Tuesday
a pleasant evening for dining outside with temperatures nearing 70!
"his house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all."
-- j. r. r. tolkien, the hobbit
3-12-07- Monday
"... the fair face of every flower
salutes me with a silent joy
that fills me with infinite content..."
-- celia thaxter
3-11-07-- Sunday
backyard brunch
"I need to recover a rhythm in my heart that moves my body first and my mind second, that allows my soul to catch up with me.
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun-warmed rock in the center of a rushing river."
-- dawna markova
http://www.herondance.org
3-10-07-- Saturday
came across this john deere tractor while wandering the back roads of orange county. reminds me of the one my grandpa drove on his farm in indiana.
"the world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
-- thomas paine
3-9-07-- Friday
thru-the-window-abstract -- antique shop
"art is the unceasing effort
to compete with the beauty of flowers -
and never succeeding."
-- marc chagall
3-8-07-- Thursday
tulip tree blossoms
"it is always sunrise somewhere;
the dew is never all dried at once;
a shower is forever falling;
vapor is ever rising.
eternal sunrise, eternal sunset,
eternal dawn..."
-- john muir
3-7-07-- Wednesday
on the main quad at unc-ch by the old well.
with temperatures nearing 70- it was a great afternoon to be outside!
"hurt not the earth,
neither the sea,
nor the trees."
-- revelations 7:3
3-6-07-- Tuesday
"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."
-- katherine hepburn
3-5-07-- Monday
"and 'tis
my faith that
every flower
enjoys the air it breathes."
-- william wordsworth
3-4-07-- Sunday
unc-chapel hill beats duke by 14 points and students swarm to franklin street to celebrate in carolina blue!
"the most evident token and
apparent sign of true wisdom
is a constant and
unconstrained rejoicing."
michel de montaigne
more photos here: http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1340241
3-3-07-- Saturday
a perfect day for playing outside!
"what was any art
but an effort
to make a sheath,
a mould,
in which to imprison
for a moment
the shining, elusive element
which is life itself."
-- willa cather
same couple a bit later on franklin street:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1359528
3-2-07-- Friday
this flower is blooming on a tree and has a magnificent scent! je ne sais pas le nom.
"what's in a name? that which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet..."
juliet in romeo and juliet
3-1-07-- Thursday
"to see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour."
-- william blake
2-28-07-- Wednesday
fountain outside a charleston firestation.
"love the moment, and the energy of that moment
will spread beyond all boundaries."
-- corita kent
2-27-07-- Tuesday
sunset on the beach at "isle of
palms" near charleston.
"patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. patience and faith. one should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea."
-- anne morrow lindbergh
charleston area beach photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/2520963#132646805
2-26-07-- Monday
home in charleston's historic district-- on a cobblestone street.
"without words, without writing and without books,
there would be no history,
there could be no concept of humanity."
-- hermann hesse
more charleston photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/2520963#132422252
2-25-07-- Sunday
another photo from my beach trip. this is in memory of my dad, who got a kick out of these big, ungainly, and incredibly graceful birds. he spent hours fishing on the ocean in a little boat he called "high hopes."
"hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul.
and sings the tune
without the words,
and never stops at all."
-- emily dickinson
more beach photos here:
http://butterflites.smugmug.com/gallery/1761910
I will be in charleston for a few days on a work -related training program, and will hopefully have internet access.
2-24-07-- Saturday
I spent yesterday and today at wrightsville beach with my daughters. was absolutely wonderful!
"I arise today through
the strength of heaven
light of sun
radiance of moon
splendour of fire
swiftness of wind
depth of sea
stability of earth
firmness of rock."
-- st. patrick
2-23-07-- Friday
chapel hill daffies!
"everything has its beauty
but not everyone sees it."
-- confucius
2-22-07-- Thursday
Party remnant on the dashboard of a random car...
"life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we're here we should dance."
-- unknown
2-21-07-- Wednesday
"I have heard it said that the first ingredient
of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream."
-- john alan appleman
2-20-07-- Tuesday
tent city in front of Memorial Hall- UNC students are camping out tonight in order to be assured of getting tickets tomorrow morning for a Ben Folds concert!
"I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
2-19-07-- Monday
with temperatures climbing into the mid-40's,
it's time to wash the truck!
"a great secret of success
is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up."
-- albert schweitzer
2-18-07-- Sunday
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house.
"Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?".
"Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that
it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not."
2-17-07-- Saturday
"the meeting of two personalities
is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
-- carl jung
2-16-07-- Friday
"my religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
-- albert einstein
2-15-07-- Thursday
"management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things."
-- peter drucker
2-14-07-- Wednesday
random guy on the street,
bringing flowers home for his hunny.
"put your hand on a stove for a minute
and it seems like an hour.
sit with that special girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute.
that's relativity."
-- albert einstein
happy valentines day!!
2-13-07-- Tuesday
happy valentines day!
"that best portion of a good man's life,
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and of love."
-- william wordsworth
2-12-07-- Monday
pooch brings comic relief during "rush" hour.
(no one was rushing anywhere.)
disclaimer: I was at a full stop
when I took this photo!
"a door is what a dog is perpetually
on the wrong side of."
-- ogden nash