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Poulsbo, Washington ~ Winter 2023 ~ Photos ~ Quotes
Located on the Kitsap Peninsula, in western Washington, Poulsbo is known as “Little Norway.” It was founded in the 1880’s by Norwegian immigrants. Walk about the town, explore the many shops, art galleries, bakeries and attractions. Enjoy walking along the waterfront (where there is ample parking).
Favorite shops to explore include:
- Liberty Bay Books ~ terrific local bookstore offering a very good selection of books, puzzles, cards, gifts, games and book clubs. Great place to browse.
- Nordiska ~ beautiful shop to browse gifts, houseware and kitchen goods. Check out their book club.
You will find several good restaurants, including The Loft (on the water), Slippery Pig Brewery and marvelous Italian cuisine at Sogno di Vino.
Savor your journeys, near or far, real or imagined
Favorite quotes about books:
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking ~ Haruki Murakami
Some books leave us free and some books make us free ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no friend as loyal as a book ~ Ernest Hemingway
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once ~ C.S. Lewis
Favorite Poem: Sea-Fever by John Masefield ~ Photos
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
Favorite Photos ~ 2022
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
Christmas Quotes ~ Photos ~ December 2022
Wishing you and your family and friends a beautiful, joyous Christmas
May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve ~ Unknown
Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection ~ Winston Churchill
Christmas is the day that holds all time together ~ Alexander Smith
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly ~ Andy Rooney
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood ~ Richard Paul Evans
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ~ Charles Dickens
Beautiful Fall Day ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ November 2022
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring ~ Truman Capote
Autumn is springtime in reverse ~ Terri Guillemets
And the sunsets of Autumn ~ are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry? ~ Charles Lanman
Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go ~ Unknown
The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain ~ Gary Zukav
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays ~ Blake Lively
More Favorite Cat Quotes ~ Photos ~ November 2022
Time spent with cats is never wasted ~ Sigmund Freud
Like clever people, cats know instantly who likes or dislikes them ~ unlike people, they don’t care much ~ Anonymous
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I am with her ~ Michel De Montaigne
In order to keep check on your own importance, get a dog who will worship you and a cat who will ignore you ~ Anonymous
The cat lives alone, has no need of neighbors, obeys only if it pleases her, feigns slumber so she can keep an eye on you, and shreds everything on which she lays a paw ~ Francois Chateaubriand
Beware of people who dislike cats ~ Irish Proverb
Bobber Forest Park, Gig Harbor, WA ~ Quotes
And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul ~ John Muir
Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence ~ Sabrina Elkins
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
The trees will tell their secrets to those that tune in ~ Steven Magee
Trees are always a relief, after people ~ David Mitchell
Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots ~ Rumi
Beautiful Autumn Day ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Quotes
And all at once, summer collapsed into fall ~ Oscar Wilde
I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it ~ Lee Maynard
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence ~ Yoko Ono
Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind ~ Lorin Morgan-Richards
Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn ~ Umberto Eco
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it ~ Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Journeys with Eileen Diane 