"Most of April hours are happy ones...for even the dreariest rain means the quickening of the frosty old earth into a new splendor. It isn't just a rainy day, but it is a day to make the hyacinths grow, and lengthen the green lances of the tulips.
We often have to put the furnace on, and snow sometimes sifts soon over the greening lawn, but we know it it is just a temporary note from winter and tomorrow will be warm again."
Beautiful photos and post ! It is sunny here today but the winds still have that chill in them . Soon the weather will be as it should be . Our Baltimore Orioels are back I put their feeder out this morning and of course my camera batteries needed to be charged DARN IT ! Oh well will have plenty of time to photograph them ! Have a great day !
what beautiful pictures! I have just started looking at photography blogs...it is like a whole new world to me...seeing things, like those raindrops, I never saw before. beautiful! I am your newest follower..pls follow back if you can.
a goat wrangler, chicken whisperer, bee maven, and farmers’ market baker renovating an 1864 farmhouse. I like simple things, old things, old ways. I'm the definition of "homebody" and you can always find me in an apron. Welcome to my world...stick around, I hope you'll find it's fun!
Things I love...
Sunday dinners
tire swings
the laughter of children
cross-country train rides
barn sales & auctions
old farmhouses
small towns
porch swings
country clotheslines
old-fashioned barbershops
John Deere 4020's
farmers' markets
living in the Heartland
twinkling fireflies
simple country pleasures
the comforts of home
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fresh from my farmhouse kitchen...simple, homemade, cottage foods!
I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile.
I can give some help to some people, that is not vital to all the world's problems, and yet I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a different world in our time!"
-Gladys Taber
"It is not the things you have that make you happy.
It is love, and kindness, and helping each other, and just plain being good. "
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
"The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
"In all of living, have much fun and laughter.
Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."
-Gordon B. Hinckley
"Life is short,
and it's up to you to make it sweet."
-Sadie Delany
"The real things haven't changed...
It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."
Beautiful photos and post ! It is sunny here today but the winds still have that chill in them . Soon the weather will be as it should be . Our Baltimore Orioels are back I put their feeder out this morning and of course my camera batteries needed to be charged DARN IT ! Oh well will have plenty of time to photograph them ! Have a great day !
ReplyDeleteIt's so nice to see the birds return...I learned the hard way, I keep a back-up battery with me at all times!
ReplyDeleteVery good article. Congratulations.
ReplyDeletewhat beautiful pictures! I have just started looking at photography blogs...it is like a whole new world to me...seeing things, like those raindrops, I never saw before. beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI am your newest follower..pls follow back if you can.