Foxglove
“Conform and be dull.”
J. Frank Dobie, 1888-1964
American folklorist and writer from Texas
Conform?
May 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM (Flowers & Plants)
Suffering
May 30, 2009 at 2:59 PM (Bugs & Insects, Flowers & Plants)
“By suffering comes wisdom.”
Aeschylus, 525-456 B.C.
Ancient Greek playwright
On the Spine of Time
May 28, 2009 at 8:00 PM (Scenes, Sullivan County, Water)
Holston River below the Weir Dam
“Sooner or later you’ve got to let loose of certainty’s hand and leap.
Jump. Believe in something, like mountains and mountain streams,
trout and mountain people.”
Harry Middleton, 1949-2003
Southern nature writer
Where Mountain and Atom Meet
May 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM (Scenes)
View from the Blue Ridge Parkway near Grandfather Mountain
“Ancient haze lies on the mountain
smoke-blue, strange and still
a presence that eludes the mind and
moves through a deeper kind of knowing.
It is nature’s breath and more –
an aura from the great I Am
that gathers to its own
spirits that have gone before.
Deep below the valley waters
eerie and hid from view
the atom splits without a sound
its own trace a fine blue glow
rising from the fissioned whole
and at its core
power that commands the will
quiet that strikes the soul,
‘Be still and know . . . I Am.’”
Marilou Awiakta, b. 1936
Cherokee/Appalachian writer and storyteller
Where I Need to Be
May 26, 2009 at 10:13 PM (Flowers & Plants)
Red Trillium
“I’m not running, and I’m not walking fast.
I’m going where I need to be.”
Johnny McEntyre
Learn From Them
May 25, 2009 at 10:31 PM (Scenes)
Farmhouse Gallery, Unicoi
“Many men have been just as troubled
morally and spiritually as you are right now.
Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
You’ll learn from them–if you want to.
Just as someday, if you have something to offer,
someone will learn something from you.
It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement.
And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher In The Rye
Sounds like James
May 24, 2009 at 7:00 PM (Flowers & Plants, Goethe)
“Knowing is not enough; We must Apply.
Willing is not enough; We must Do.”
Goethe
Desire & Regret
May 23, 2009 at 7:00 PM (Flowers & Plants)
“We alternate between desire and regret.”
Seneca
Universal Language
May 22, 2009 at 4:39 PM (Flowers & Plants)
“Everybody laughs in the same language.”
Unknown
Earth’s Music
May 21, 2009 at 8:00 AM (Flowers & Plants, Shakespeare)
Trillium blooming along Appalachian Trail on Unaka Mountain
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
William Shakespeare
Easy?
May 19, 2009 at 6:53 AM (Flowers & Plants)
Rhododendron blossom opening
“Whenever the going seems easy
you are on the wrong road.”
Unknown
Happy Birthday, Mom
May 17, 2009 at 9:04 PM (Abraham Lincoln, Scenes)
Collecting shells at OBX with my mom (right) and aunt (left)
“I remember my mother’s prayers
and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.”
Abraham Lincoln
A Working Mood
May 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM (Flowers & Plants, Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“That book is good which puts me in a working mood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hurry
May 15, 2009 at 10:06 PM (Flowers & Plants)
“A wise man does not try to hurry history.”
Adlai Stevenson, 1900-1965
American politician
Thinking and Yearning
May 14, 2009 at 4:39 PM (Flowers & Plants)
“What is a thousand years?
Time is short for one who thinks,
endless for one who yearns.”
Alain, 1868-1951
French philosopher
Taking Time
May 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM (Abraham Lincoln, Flowers & Plants)
“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”
Abraham Lincoln
Vacation
May 9, 2009 at 6:37 AM (Flowers & Plants)
Foxglove
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
Unknown
Growing Up
May 7, 2009 at 7:00 PM (Flowers & Plants)
“There’s no point in being grown up
if you can’t be childish sometimes.”
Dr. Who
Hush
May 6, 2009 at 8:00 PM (Flowers & Plants)
Columbine
“The best way to become boring is to say everything.”
Voltaire
Use It All
May 5, 2009 at 7:59 PM (Birds)
“When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,
and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.’”
Erma Bombeck
Procrastination
May 4, 2009 at 10:35 PM (Flowers & Plants)
Merrybell
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Don Marquis, 1878-1937
American humorist and journalist
First or Last
May 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM (Flowers & Plants)
Trillium, Lower Higgins Creek
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.”
Betty Smith
Flowers, Too
May 1, 2009 at 11:19 PM (A. A. Milne, Flowers & Plants)
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
A. A. Milne, 1882-1956
English author, best known for Winnie-the-Pooh
