"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..."

John Gillespie Magee

My beloved friend, my furbaby, departed this world to wait for me on this day, September 6, 2011

at 5:45 pm.

Welcome back spring!

"Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,
The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes."

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Written in Early Spring

Cliff view

"Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

A face only a Mother could love?

"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave."
Rainer Maria Rilke

Thare be Dragons!

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Domestic Panther

"But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his."
James Cromwell

Pretty, pretty....

"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."
(Joseph Joubert 1754-1824)

Oliver

"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing."
(William S. Burroughs 1914-1997)

Pearls and other sparkelies

"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price."
(Moses Ibn Ezra, 1055/60-1138 ? ) Shirat Yisrael

Are you with me??

"If I'm going to follow a god, why would I want to follow a god of my creation? That would be an alcoholic idiot nitwit jerk god!"
(Willie Aames)

"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."
(Joseph Campbell)

Leading you on....

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."
(Vance Havner 1901-1986)

Bottled Color

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
(Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1841 - 1935)

What's on the TV?

"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
(Gallagher)

Pandi Scrapbook

"Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it."
(Alan Holbrook)

Morning Glorys at night

"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882)

"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came."
(John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963), Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962

"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."
(Auguste Rodin)

Shroom

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
(Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC)

What Lies Within?

"A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation."
(Saadi 1184 - 1291)

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."
(Thich Nhat Hanh)