Beautiful Spring Day ~ April 2024 ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Photos ~ Quotes

Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be ~ Anonymous

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment ~ Ellis Peters

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow ~ English Proverb

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life ~ Toni Sorenson

Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers ~ Byron Caldwell Smith

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair ~ Khalil Gibran

A Hint of Spring ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Photos ~ Quotes ~ March 2024

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself ~ Zen saying

In March, winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too ~ Jean Hersey

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently ~ Gary Zukav

Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be ~ Anonymous

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment ~ Ellis Peters

I love March as it gives me hope that new beginnings are always beautiful ~ Anamika Mishra

How terrible a time is the beginning of March. In a month there will be daffodils and the sudden blossoming of orchards, but you wouldn’t know it now. You have to take spring on blind faith ~ Beatriz Williams

Here’s Sabrina ~ A Beautiful Feline ~ Photos ~ Quotes

In order to keep check on your own importance, get a dog who will worship you and a cat who will ignore you ~ Anonymous 

Dogs have owners, cats have staff ~ Anonymous 

The smallest feline is a masterpiece ~ Leonardo Da Vinci 

Who amongst us doesn’t need the cat’s power to simply disregard the duties of daily life and to relax ~ Anonymous 

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult ~ It’s not ~ Mine had me trained in two days ~ Bill Dana

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much ~ Mark Twain 

Favorite Photos ~ 2023

May love and laughter light your days & warm your heart and home.

May good and faithful friends be yours wherever you may roam ~ Irish Blessing

Beautiful December Day ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Photos ~ Quotes

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness ~ John Steinbeck

If we make it through December, everything’s gonna be alright I know; it’s the coldest time of winter and I shiver when I see the falling snow ~ Merle Haggard

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer ~ Albert Camus

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness ~ Helen Keller

Wisdom comes with winters ~ Oscar Wilde

December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future ~
Ralph Waldo Emerson

November Hues ~ Gig Harbor area, WA ~ Quotes ~ Photos

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July ~ Henry David Thoreau

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving! ~ Charmaine J. Forde

 Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale ~ Lauren DeStefano

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils ~ Cyril Connolly

National Cat Day ~ Oct 29, 2023 ~ Quotes ~ Photos

National Cat Day was founded as a way to bring awareness to the number of homeless cats. It is a celebration that takes place on October 29th, every year in the United States. 

Celebrate with your special feline … below are some favorite quotes about cats plus photos of beautiful, fun-loving Sabrina ….

Journeys are more meaningful with special pals … Savor the moments … 

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not ~ Ernest Hemingway

Time spent with cats is never wasted ~ Sigmund Freud

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. Michel de Montaigne

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry Pratchett

When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Autumn Colors ~ Gig Harbor area, WA ~ Quotes ~ October 2023

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower ~ Albert Camus

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers ~ L.M. Montgomery ~  “Anne of Green Gables”

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale ~ Lauren DeStefano

Autumn … the year’s last, loveliest smile ~ William Cullen Bryant

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves ~ Joe L. Wheeler

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”

Photography Quotes ~ Favorite Photos

I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent ~ Imogen Cunningham

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do ~ Andy Warhol

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph ~ Matt Hardy

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything ~ Aaron Siskind

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow ~ Imogen Cunningham

The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much ~ Annie Leibovitz