Tag Archives: Nelson Mandela

Bread Baking

Crusty White Stone Baked Bloomer Bread

Poppy Seed and Rye Bread

Sweet Potato and Feta Cheese Bloomer Bread

Cous Cous Plait Rolls Bread

Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

I joined the Homebakers Club last month and these are some of the fruits of my labor.

One of the best ways to meet my new neighbors has always been when I have taken them a fresh loaf of bread and introduced myself. Last Christmas I shared fresh bread with neighbors.

Do you enjoy baking?

Have fun and carry on!

A Stroll in the Garden

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Cornflower/Batchelor Button

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Cornflower/Batchelor Button

“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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“Fear cuts deeper than swords.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Marguerite Daisy

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Jupiter's Beard

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato

Coral Bells

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Coral Bells

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ― Nelson Mandela

Columbine

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

The first two photos were taken at Wonderwood Park…one of my favorite places to go when visiting the kids.  It is a very easy walk from their home.

Wonderwood Park - Fern

Wonderwood Park - Fern

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Patrick Henry
Give me liberty or give me death!

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Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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James Bryce
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

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Henry James
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.

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Ronald Reagan
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

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Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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Robert Frost
Freedom lies in being bold.

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Harry S. Truman
America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.

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Woodrow Wilson
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

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Happy Independence Day, America!

Stay healthy!  Stay safe!