Dragonfly girl

Just bringing back memories of a warmer time:

Sunday and starting a new week

Good Sunday and good week, folks - I hope you had a nice holiday time. Around here it has been very cold, with temperatures around -25 and -27. Still, they have been beautiful days spent with the family. I will have to return to the north at the beginning of next year. Meanwhile, chill out and peace for everyone:

Feathered hat girl and friends

It was a very cold and snowy Thursday in Calgary - but a productive one - and it's already Friday! ... we can feel the weekend:

Quick Sunday Post

Sunday. Snow around. Preparing trip to south.

Winter is getting closer

The temps have been around zero degrees Celsius; with a lot of fog in the mornings and very delicate snowfalls at times. A snow that sits like a sheet on pastures, hills and roofs, but that on streets and sidewalks melts quickly. Gray days with a shameful sun that appears seconds from behind the clouds:

the cheerful beings of summer

One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. -Henry David Thoreau

girl and doggy

Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat. -Miranda Kerr

father and son in Greece

By all means, get married: if you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. -Socrates

little gardener

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

on a cloud

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted. -Bob Ross

girl at the dream's color-world

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -Edgar Allan Poe

girl with dog and plants

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx

butterflies girl

'Just living is not enough', said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower'. -Hans Christian Anderson

kid with abstract art, flowers and adult

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I prefer to see with closed eyes. -Josef Albers

zoo kids

Animals are such agreeable friends ― they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ―George Eliot

fishing

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. -Steven Wright.

family picture

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ―Henry James

flower girl

a flower blossoms for its own joy. -Oscar Wilde

baby friday

babies are such a nice way to start people.  -Don Herold

catching butterflies

well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in The Little Prince.