Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu
Raw Truth
Category: Photography
A Good Today
“Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday.” — Author Unknown Sunrise today, glorious Mt. Hood.
Optimism
“Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, but the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.” — Billy Graham Bounty from one of many gorgeous offerings in Portland, Oregon’s Rose Garden, 2013.
Pristine
“Purity, uncorrupted, unsullied.” So much more than its definition, I fail to create one better. PRISTINE (adjective) 1. having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied. 2. of or relating to the earliest period or state; primitive. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pristine
The Rhodora
On being asked, Whence is the flower? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might…
finding merle 