Vacation break ...

taking a little vacation break ...

& sharing some of my favourite travel inspired quotes :-D

"I am not the same,

having seen the moon shine

on the other side

of the world"

~Mary Anne Radmacher~

"The use of traveling

is to regulate imagination with reality,

and instead of thinking of how things may be,

see them as they are"

~Samuel Johnson~

"Twenty years from now

you will be more disappointed 

by the things you didn't do

than by the ones you did do"

~Mark Twain~

"How wild it was

to let it be"

~Cheryl Strayed~

"I have loved her,

my little wanderer,

with a mind full of wild forests

and eyes that await adventures"

~Conny Cernik~

when it snows ...

the calm after the storm...

snow, freezing rain, high winds

over the weekend ...

the birds & squirrels have returned to the garden

and happily filling up at the feeders

"Some things need to be let go

before other things

can be let in"

~Marianne Williamson~

Just let things happen

let life flow 

don't force it

Spring will arrive when she is ready

right Archer?

Perception ...

when you spot a "bird leaf" with a heart shaped eye on your walk

"We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are "

~Anais Nin~ 

hello April ...

walks with Archer x

Robin serenades

morning meditation in the garden

basking in the sunshine

visits to the nursery for ranunculus and smiling every time I see them

remembering how the garden bunnies love them

and nibble off the flowers leaving nothing but stems

fruit and nut mix for the squirrels

sparrow love

x

bringing bird seed with me

and sprinkling some in my hand

walking through the trails

and waiting... it doesn't take long...

black capped chickadees begin to  land on my outstretched hand

... some take a seed and fly away... others sit and eat from my hand

{magic}

treats left by walkers before me

today has seen a mixture of rain and snow

and heavy, heavy winds

finding bits of suet amongst the leaves

"Hark, I hear a robin calling!
List, the wind is from the south!
And the orchard-bloom is falling
Sweet as kisses on the mouth.

In the dreamy vale of beeches
Fair and faint is woven mist,
And the river's orient reaches
Are the palest amethyst.

Every limpid brook is singing
Of the lure of April days;
Every piney glen is ringing
With the maddest roundelays.

Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills."
-  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Spring Song