All photos and videos -- Copyright 2016 Laura Shmania
2-23-08-- saturday "there are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. there are seven million." -- walt streightiff
3-3-08-- monday beautiful spring-like day with temps in the 70's "...to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony." -- william henry channing
3-14-08-- friday a wonderful evening for visiting on the porch "each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -- anais nin