I miss you Sam!!

I miss you Sam!!
I miss you Sam!!

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Enjoy the Beauty of Your World -- and Mine!!

I went to one of the wonderful rose gardens in our neighborhood yesterday and had to share one of the beauties with you today!!
Enjoy and Make the Most of Every Moment!!

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Wishing All of You Very Beautiful and Peaceful and Fun Weekend!!

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? 


Today is a gift. That's why they call it the present.

Babuni Olantinfi

Friday, May 23, 2014

One Quiet Moment

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.--Agnes Repplier

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.--James Freeman Clarke

Ready to Laugh???

Now how would you feel finding this in your back yard!!!!  That could be a problem!!


Have a great Friday and a beautiful weekend and laugh -- a lot!!!  Good for the heart -- actually great for every part of you!!!

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Sky Watch!!

Share the beauty of your skies with us!!!
It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
Bern Williams
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Give me the splendid silent sun /at sunset/. 
                                               Walt Whitman



                 



Wednesday, May 21, 2014

One Quiet Moment

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughs for Wednesday!!

 Hey, try it!! It works!!
 


I'll be watching!!!

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

One Quiet Moment

The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Giggles for the Week!!!





Okay, I've been wicked and funny for the day and I promise to be good and dull for the remainder of the week!!!!

Monday, May 19, 2014

Our World!!

Welcome to Our World!! Join us and share your world!!
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo Galilei

Sunday, May 18, 2014

One Quiet Moment

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron

Sunday Laugh for the Day!!

A husband and wife are shopping in their local supermarket. 
The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart. 
"What do you think you're doing?" asks the wife. 
"They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans" he replies. 
"Put them back, we can't afford them" demands the wife.  They carry on shopping. 
A few aisles farther on, the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket. 
"What do you think you're doing?" asks the husband. 
"It's my face cream.  It makes me look beautiful," replies the wife. 
Her husband retorts: "So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the price." 
That's him in Aisle 5

Saturday, May 17, 2014

One Quiet Moment

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and
          the stars; you have a right to be here.
                                                                     - Desiderata   

Happy Saturday!! How About a Laugh or Two??

Anheuser-Busch is on the phone and they want to talk to this guy ....



Not always easy to do, but worth the effort -- believe me!!!

Friday, May 16, 2014

One Quiet Moment

Live Every Moment, Laugh Every Day, Love Beyond Words

How About This One to Wind Down Your Week???

Ole Olson is on his deathbed, knows the end is near, and is with his nurse, his wife, his daughter and his two sons.

"So", he says to them, "My oldest son Swen, I want you to take the Minnetonka houses; daughter Lena, take the apartments over in Edina ; son Rasmus, I want you to take the offices over on Hennepin; and Gunhild, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings downtown."

The nurse is just blown away by all this, and as Ole slips away, she says, "Mrs. Olson, your husband must have been such a hardworking man to have accumulated all this property.

Gunhild replies, "Property?...The idiot had a paper route!"


Okay, that's the giggle, now here's the wise thought!


Thursday, May 15, 2014

Sky Watch!!

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain
Spring is nature’s way of saying, "Let’s party!"  ~Robin Williams
Welcome to Sky Watch!! Share the beauty of your skies with us every week and enjoy!!

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

One Quiet Moment and a Smile/Giggle As Well!!

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all — he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson

Have a Beautiful Wednesday!!


Tuesday, May 13, 2014

One Quiet Moment

 Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun /at sunset/?
                                                                      MATTHEW ARNOLD

Great Thoughts for the Day!!!

Hope your week is off to a great start!! Enjoy!!

Monday, May 12, 2014

Our World!!!


Join us today and share the beauty of your world!!





Nature never goes out of style. ~Anonymous


The moon quotes the sun, the rivers quote the trees, and trees quote the breeze. ~Terri Guillemets



The world is a sunny success. ~Terri Guillemets



Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape. ~Terri Guillemets

My Mother's Day bouquet from my son and his wife! What a lovely day it was!!!
May all of you have a beautiful week!! 


Sunday, May 11, 2014

Much Love and Good Wishes to the Mother's Everywhere!

Hope this works for the day!! It's been a weird weekend -- blogwise!!

What Can I Say?

What Can I Say?
I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

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