Guarding a finished puzzle is great fun … now onto the next puzzle ….Â
A water break ….Â
Time to look for the rabbits, squirrels and birds …Â
Time for a nap .. one of many …but who is counting …Â
Maybe try different chairs to see the rabbits better .. and maybe some sun …Â
Nap time!!Â
Everything comes to those who wait… except a cat. Mario Andretti
For more posts about Jameson …
Jameson ~ A Beautiful Cat Who Loves Puzzles ~ and Tummy Rubs
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world ~ John Muir
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter ~ John Muir
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes ~ Marcel Proust
The journey not the arrival matters ~ T.S. Eliot
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home ~ Matsuo Basho
 Savor your journeys… real, imagined or virtual, near or far.
Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina ~
Favorite Charleston SC Barrier Islands
Historic Charleston, SC ~ Photos
Last year, I traveled to awe inspiring Mt Rushmore in South Dakota, which is a fabulous area to visit (including the nearby Crazy Horse Memorial, Badlands National Park and the SD Air and Space Museum). This year, the Independence Day fireworks celebration should be spectacular.
Savor your journeys… real, imagined or virtual, near or far.
George Washington: Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience ~ Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected ~ Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty ~ Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
Thomas Jefferson: Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you ~ Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom ~ The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do ~ On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Theodore Roosevelt: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are ~ Believe you can and you’re halfway there ~ People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care ~ Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
Abraham Lincoln: I will prepare and some day my chance will come ~ And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years ~ Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing ~ You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
From May 2019:
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? ~Â Khalil Gibran
The earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead ~ Â Oscar Wilde
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable ~ Joseph Addison
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky ~ Audrey Hepburn
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers ~ Claude Monet
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
Flowers are happy things~ P. G. Wodehouse
I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess~ Walt Disney
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts~Â Sigmund Freud
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path~ Jean Anouilh
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!~ Sitting Bull
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them~ A. A. Milne
 And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair ~Khalil Gibran
We’ll always have Paris ~ Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. ~ Josephine Baker
America is my country and Paris is my hometown. ~ Gertrude Stein
Everything ends this way in France ~ everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs ~ everything is a pretext for a good dinner. ~ French playwright Jean Anouilh
France has the only two things towards which we drift as we grow older – intelligence and manners. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast ~ Ernest Hemingway
Just add three letters to Paris, and you have paradise ~ Jules Renard
A walk in Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and the point of life ~ Thomas Jefferson
Paris is always a good idea. ~ Audrey Hepburn
Journeys with Eileen Diane 