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Scenic Drive

Posted on February 18, 2024 | 26 comments

The Hubster and I took advantage of a beautiful day this last week and took a scenic drive around our neighborhood.

I meant to share the photos sooner, but pretty photos are fun to share and admire anytime!

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“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius

“I may not have ended up where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

“A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S Eliot

“Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

See the world around you!

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on November 10, 2023 | 8 comments

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion. ― Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard

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Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness. – Donna Karan

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. – Mark Twain

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory. – Mary Stewart

Be a Columbus. Smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them. ― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fragrance of our praise fills the whole earth and touches the heart of God. ― Dennis Ignatius

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ― H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered…the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls…bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory. ― Marcel Proust

See the world around you!

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Tree Peony

Posted on June 10, 2013 | 6 comments

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust

When a friend became ill, she could no longer care for her tree peonies (actually a woody shrub), and she gifted three of them to me. They are also known as Chinese, or Japanese, tree peonies.

I don’t know the varieties of the beauties that she gave me. I don’t even know what color they are. I’ve been patiently waiting 3+ years for them to bloom.

But this spring I was rewarded with one gorgeous creamy yellow blossom from the one tree peony that I thought was the one least likely to survive (she did not like being transplanted at all).