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)

Green Cat

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
(Unknown)

Red Hollyhock

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
(Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887)

View from Moonstone beach.

"It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
(Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894)