Journeys with Eileen Diane

Happy New Year 2025 ~ Quotes ~ Favorite Photos

December 30, 2024December 31, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

Every moment is a fresh beginning ~ T.S. Eliot

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written ~ Melody Beattie

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier’ ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ~ C.S. Lewis

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done ~ Thomas Jefferson

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow ~ Albert Einstein

New Year — a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours ~ Alex Morritt

Christmas Quotes ~ Card Photos ~ December 2024

December 22, 2024December 22, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

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

Waning Days of Fall ~ Quotes ~ Photos ~ Gig Harbor, WA

November 20, 2024November 20, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

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

November is a month of transformation and preparation ~Catherine Pulsifer

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

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of ~ Henry David Thoreau

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

National Cat Day ~ Oct 29, 2024 ~ Photos ~ Quotes

October 29, 2024October 28, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

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 favorite cat photos…..

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

Cats have it all: admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it ~ Rod McKuen

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution ~ Hazel Nicholson

When the cat you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure ~ Unknown

The loss of a cat is immeasurable. But so is the love left behind ~ Unknown

The smallest feline is a masterpiece ~ Leonardo da Vinci

If you think that it’s only a cat then obviously you have never loved a cat ~ T.S.Eliot

Autumn Leaves ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Photos ~ Quotes ~ October 2024

October 22, 2024October 21, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day ~ Alan Lightman

Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves ~ Humbert Wolfe

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the top of a leaf ~ Rabindranath Tagore

But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall ~ Frank Sinatra, “Autumn Leaves”

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

Memories ~ Favorite Photos of Autumn Colors ~ Quotes ~ September 2024

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

September tries its best to have us forget summer ~ Bernard Williams

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

September is the month of wonderful weather ~ Anonymous

Nostalgia ~ that’s autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will always remember ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

September ~ where fall and summer meet ~ Will Wallace Harney

There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn ~ Sharyn McCrumb

Garden Flowers ~ Quotes ~ Photos ~ July 2024

July 21, 2024July 20, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour ~ William Blake

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs ~ Malcolm de Chazal

It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can’t help but be sensitive to that ~ Hubert de Givenchy

Trees ~ Quotes ~ Photos ~ June 2024

June 24, 2024June 23, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

This oak tree and me, we’re made of the same stuff ~ Carl Sagan

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world ~ John Muir

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky ~ Kahlil Gabran

To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots ~ Richard Mabey

Look deep into nature, and then you will start to understand everything better ~ Albert Einstein

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys alone the same path are alike ~ Paolo Coelho

Below are photos using the app Snapseed to show different effects of some of the photos above …

Beaches ~ Photos ~ Quotes ~ June 4, 2024

June 4, 2024June 4, 2024Journeys with EileenDiane

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans ~ Kahlil Gibran

Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home ~ Sylvia Earle

At the beach — time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted ~ T.S. Eliot

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came ~ John F. Kennedy

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

I followed my heart, and it led me to the beach ~ Unknown

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul ~ Robert Wyland

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude ~ Jeanne Moreau