"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."

Oscar Wilde

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Same Here

"Every leaf and twig was this morning covered with a spakling ice armor; even the grasses in exposed fields were hung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveller. It was the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems. It was as though some stratum of the earth had been removed in the night, exposing to light a bed of untarnished crystals. The scene changed at every step.... There were opal and sapphire and emerald and jasper and beryl and topaz and ruby."

Henry David Thoreau
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Arbutus Christmas

Cost of the tree ... zero.

The numerous double-takes as I drove ... priceless.

My non-cutdown, windfall Christmas tree.

Snow Melt's Reflection

And so this is Christmas

Wise men leading the way.

Seasons Greetings

Joyeux Noel

May the peace that passes all ipods and playstations be yours this Christmas season.