9-28-07-- Friday


"friend, our closeness is this:
anywhere you put your foot, feel me
in the firmness under you."

-- rumi

9-27-07-- Thursday



"peace be with thee."

-- psalms 122:8

9-26-07-- Wednesday
seen walking down franklin street


"be glad of life because it gives you the chance
to love and to work and to play
and to look up at the stars."

-- henry van dyke

9-25-07-- Tuesday

"the living moment is everything."

-- d.h. lawrence

9-24-07-- Monday
seasons changing

"for man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
for nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."

-- edwin way teale

9-23-07-- Sunday

"listen to your heart above all other voices."

-- martha kagan

9-22-07-- Saturday
at the farmers' market

"vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

-- jim davis

9-21-07-- Friday
musician entertains folks on the street this evening


"ah, music. a magic beyond all we do here!"

j. k. rowling, harry potter and the sorcerer's stone

9-20-07-- Thursday
and we finally had rain!
that's me in the car, taking the photo!

"the world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."

-- ivy baker priest

9-19-07-- Wednesday


"oh, grant me my prayer
that I may never lose the bliss of the touch
of the one in the play of the many."

-- gitanjali - rabindranath tagore - 1913

9-18-07-- Tuesday
a lovely evening for a walk on campus! unc's old well in front of south building, seems more often than naught to capture my attention!

"the most enduring symbol of the university is the Old Well, a small neoclassical rotunda based on the Temple of Love in the Garden of Versailles, at the spot of the original well that provided water for the school."

9-17-07-- Monday

I glanced quickly at this quote and thought it read:
"forever is composed of cows." and wow! what a great quote for this photo, eh?

however the real read is:
"forever is composed of nows."
-- emily dickinson

which of course, while much more aptly put has much less relevance to this pastoral scene...

(with my apologies to emily)

9-16-07-- Sunday
poor ole bailey boy- missing my daughters who are away at college...


"a dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk."

-- o.a. battista

9-15-07-- Saturday
carolina blue-- game day and unc lost!


“some dream of fortunes others dream of cookies.”

-- fortune cookie

9-14-07-- Friday

"there are only two ways to live your life.
one is as though nothing is a miracle.
the other is as though everything is a miracle."

-- albert einstein

9-13-07-- Thursday

"of all the music that reached farthest into heaven,
it is the beating of a loving heart."

-- henry ward beecher

9-12-07-- Wednesday

“the world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever;
but it is shot through with beauty, with love,
with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms...”

-- george santayana

9-11-07-- Tuesday
I hesitated to post yet another butterfly...!


"God is a verb, not a noun."

-- buckminster fuller

9-10-07-- Monday - still from the weekend- myrtle beach, sc

"we must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

-- indira gandhi

9-9-07-- Sunday
I have wanted to try this for while-- photographing a ferris wheel at night!

9-8-07-- Saturday
sunset on myrtle beach, sc

9-7-07-- Friday
will be out of town tomorrow and will catch up on Sunday!

"to find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter;
to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring
- these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

-- john burroughs

9-6-07-- 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

9-5-07-- Wednesday
in memory of greg taylor,
singer-songwriter and music teacher, whose enthusiasm for life nourished all who knew him.

"... who graced us here before
is suddenly gone..."


-- greg taylor
lyrics from "outside the lines, for grace"


gregtaylormusic.com

9-4-07-- Tuesday

"if you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."

-- robert fritz

9-3-07-- Monday

"may your troubles be less,
and your blessings be more,
and nothing but happiness
come through your door! "

-- irish blessing

9-2-07-- Sunday
definitely an ice-cream-sunday summer kind-of-evening!


“to enjoy the flavor of life take big bites.”

-- robert heinlein

9-1-07-- Saturday
passing by the Old Well on the UNC-CH campus


“the great opportunity is where you are.
every place is under the stars.
every place is the center of the universe…”

-- john burroughs

8-31-07-- Friday
taking a moment to rest under the trees
on campus

“do not worry; eat three square meals a day; exercise; go slow and easy. maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but these, I reckon, will give you a good lift!”

-- abraham lincoln

8-30-07-- Thursday
young'uns hooping to the music!


"we find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

-- ralph waldo emerson

8-29-07-- Wednesday
home after driving my youngest to college. my beauties have both flown the coop!


"ever has it been that love knows not its own
depth until the hour of separation."

-- kahlil gibran

8-28-07-- Tuesday
a quiet moment on the Smith College campus - before the students arrive


"why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

-- walt whitman

8-27-07-- Monday
en route to the NorthEast!

8-26-07-- Sunday
I will not have internet access for a few days and will catch up thursday!

8-25-07-- Saturday
fresh red-hot-roasted red-peppers
at the farmers' market- this in 90-plus degrees heat!


"at times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
each of us has cause to think
with deep gratitude of those who
have lighted the flame within us."

-- albert schweitzer

8-24-07-- Friday


"to make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee.
one clover, and a bee, and revery.
the revery alone will do, if bees are few."

-- emily dickinson

8-23-07-- Thursday summer evening on the lawn at weaver street market “To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

8-22-07-- Wednesday
the students are back!

"no matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. "

frances willard
how I learned to ride the bicycle

8-21-07-- Tuesday
back from 2 days of staff retreat- no photos taken (!),
hence a few from previous butterfly days.

"simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

-- leonardo da vinci

8-20-07-- Monday


"wisdom begins in wonder."

-- socrates

8-19-07-- Sunday
another from the NC Zoo

I will be away for a few days and catch-up on my return this coming Wednesday.

8-18-07-- Saturday
NC Zoo!

horton
"I meant what I said
and I said what I meant:
an elephant's faithful
one hundred percent!"

-- dr. suess
horton hears a who

8-17-07-- Friday


"butterflies are self-propelled flowers."

-- r.h. heinlein

8-16-07-- Thursday


"...and there was life everywhere- zumming insects, squirrels scampering along boughs, birds twittering and hopping about, spider webs gleaming silver in the sun."

-- bill bryson, a walk in the woods.

8-15-07-- Wednesday


"may peace prevail on earth."

-- world peace prayer
masahisa goi - 1955

8-14-07-- Tuesday

"the moment one gives close attention to any thing,
even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious,
awesome, indescribably magnificent world
in itself. "

-- henry miller

8-13-07-- Monday

"through the fact that the matter of the butterfly's wing is imbued with colour, it is the most spiritualized of all earthly substances...

and just as we marvel at its shimmering colours as we follow it, so also can we marvel at its own fluttering joy in these colours. this is something which it is of fundamental importance to cultivate in children, this joy in the spirituality fluttering about in the air, which is in fact fluttering joy, joy in the play of colours... "

-- rudolf steiner
from - man as symphony of the creative word

8-12-07-- Sunday

"for a journey...

the caring angel of my life
sets out with me and holds the thread
at peace among my fellow-men.
noise and illusion threaten me,
and yet the master of the loom is kindness
and at arrival the warm angel waits."


-- adam bittleston