moonshine
Just to love! She did not ask to be loved.
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence,
alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine…
~ L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
Posts tagged ‘snails’
guardian of the forest
If a tree falls in the forest …
this snail will be sure to hear it.
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Seven)
true love
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken.
~ Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Six)
unsung hero
To be really great in little things,
to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life,
is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Five)
sink or –
When it’s time to sink or swim,
take a deep breath
and plunge into deeper waters.
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Four)
rude awakening
That sinking feeling one gets
upon realizing one’s gondola is slowly filling with water …
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Three)
gondola reveries
How felicitous to float in one’s gondola on a lazy summer afternoon
upon still gleaming waters that dazzle the eye into deep reveries.
(Summer Snail Fest – Day Two)
summer rain
Summer Snail Fest is here!
Join me for a new snail image every day for the next 8 days.
Why are snails worth celebrating?
Because they’ve got tons of whimsical personality, sweet spiral shells, funky eyes,
– and after all the snail wrangling they’ve endured, my models have earned the extra exposure.
aroma ~ therapy
s – l – o – w d – o – w – n ;
. . . . . pause . . . . .
smell the flowers
curiosity
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
