Tag Archives: Spokane

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Posted on March 13, 2025 | 8 comments

The Hubster and I took a day out to hike and picnic.

*Clicking on a photo will give you a closer look!

We chose the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

The day was mostly clear and slightly chilly.

Look bravely up into the sky,
And be content with knowing
That God wished for a buttercup
Just here, where you are growing.

-Sarah Orne Jewett

I thought it would be more spring like. You know, green and full of birds.

I guess we were a bit too early since some of the water still had ice formations.

No matter.

We had a wonderful hike and picnic!

And I found my first buttercup!

Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew. -Julia Caroline Dorr

We will be back!

See the world around you!

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Manito Park Conservatory Part 2

Posted on May 24, 2023 | 3 comments

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. -Frank Herbert

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. -Elbert Hubbard

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. -Patricia Neal

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. -Eckhart Tolle

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God. -Radhanath Swami

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something – live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete… Awaken your creative sensitivities! -Jack Palance

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. -Jessamyn West

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. -Gail Sheehy

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. -Christy Turlington

See the world around you!

Previous Manito Posts:

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 2

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 3

Manito Park and Botanical Gardens – Part 4

Manito Park Conservatory

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Tagged awaken, awakening, botanical gardens, Christy Turlington, Eckhart Tolle, Elbert Hubbard, Frank Herbert, Gail Sheehy, Jack Palance, Jessamyn West, LCsCottage, Manito Park, Patricia Neal, Radhanath Swami, Spokane

Manito Park Conservatory

Posted on May 22, 2023 | 11 comments

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine. -Johann Hermann Baas

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences. -Thomas Jefferson

I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty. -John Muir

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight. -John Burroughs

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;—
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is. — Lord Alfred Tennyson