Friday, December 31, 2010

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
~T.S. Eliot

Thursday, December 30, 2010

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."
~Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

"Glory to God in highest heaven, who unto man His Son hath given; while angels sing with tender mirth, a glad new year to all the earth."
~Martin Luther

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
~C.S. Lewis

Monday, December 27, 2010

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
~Albert Schweitzer

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
~Charles Dickens

Friday, December 24, 2010

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
~G.K. Chesterton

Thursday, December 23, 2010

"There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries."
~W.J. Cameron

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
~Henry David Thoreau

Monday, December 20, 2010

"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."
~Saint Augustine

Sunday, December 19, 2010

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Saturday, December 18, 2010

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
~Abraham Lincoln

Friday, December 17, 2010

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
~Ansel Adams

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~Norman Vincent Peale

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
~Anatole France

Monday, December 13, 2010

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
~L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."
~Grace Hansen

Saturday, December 11, 2010

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
~Anne Bradstreet

Friday, December 10, 2010

"There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball."
~Bill Veeck

Thursday, December 9, 2010

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
~Laura Ingalls Wilder

Wednesday, December 8, 2010


"All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them."
~Walt Disney

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
~Saint Augustine

Monday, December 6, 2010

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
~Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, December 5, 2010

"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Saturday, December 4, 2010

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
~Albert Einstein

Friday, December 3, 2010

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."
~Brooks Anderson

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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

Toby and A Taste of Fall

Meet Toby, our orange tabby kitty. He's just over 2 years old and a rescue our daughter found in Florida at a friend's house. We h...