You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ~ C.S. Lewis
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals ~ Zig Ziglar
There is nothing impossible to him who will try ~ Alexander the Great
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right ~ Napoleon Hill
You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens ~ Mandy Hale
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
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
In March, winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too ~ Jean Hersey
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade ~ Charles Dickens
By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers would begin to run and the world would wake into itself again ~ Neil Gaiman
Every cold and dark phase ends and hence begins a beautiful phase of warmth and vibrance. Don’t believe it? Just notice March ~ Anamika Mishra
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
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:
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 is no friend as loyal as a book ~ Ernest Hemingway
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
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
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
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face ~ John Donne
Every leaf speaks bliss to me ~ Fluttering from the autumn tree ~ Emily Bronte
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all ~ Stanley Horowitz
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
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns ~ George Eliot
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints ~ Henry David Thoreau
Journeys with Eileen Diane 