"IF IT LOOKS LIKE THE SUN ISN'T GOING TO SHINE, LOOK FOR THE RAINBOW. IF IT LOOKS LIKE THE SUN IS REALLY NOT GOING TO SHINE, BE THE RAINBOW." ~MAYA ANGELOU Rainbows are real Imagine ski...
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EVEN THROUGH THE DREARINESS OF LIFE'S WINTER SEASONS, DREAM OF SPRING. DREAM IT FORWARD. ~ LYDIA PLUNK Photo by Glenda Bona Thompson For life to be good, kindness should bloom a...
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"TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE A GOOD RETURN FOR THEIR LABOR: IF EITHER OF THEM FALLS DOWN, ONE CAN HELP THE OTHER UP. BUT PITY ANYONE WHO FALLS AND HAS NO ONE TO HELP THEM UP. ...
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It was a miracle. Not too different from when Moses parted the Red Sea for his people to pass out of bondage. This parting of torrential rains. I believe the mother's love was so strong, fro...
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A quilt for a tablecloth makes for a country formal picnic “It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we canno...
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September. It began with a phone call asking "Do you have mint?" Yes. Mint with bees and mint without. Stalks of mint flopping through seasonal asters in a mass of perfect imp...
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"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour ends." ~Samuel Johnson The Rambler, November 10, 1750 Fresh butter's nat...
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There is a power to place when you allow where you live to embrace you. 'Amistad' Salvia , part of the Sunset Garden Collection, established in less than a season It is not so telling fr...
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste ...
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“THERE ARE TWO RACES OF MEN IN THIS WORLD- THE “RACE” OF THE DECENT MAN AND THE “RACE” OF THE INDECENT MAN. BOTH ARE FOUND EVERYWHERE; THEY PENETRATE INTO ALL GROUPS OF SOCIETY. NO GRO...
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"LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain- grief an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid th...
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Rejoice! The blessings that shower this nation were not given to any faction, but to the whole of its people. Both my parents served in the Navy during WWII If my mother were alive, s...
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Is there anything more romantic than a view framed by roses? In the companionship of roses, my body may sway, but my soul holds still. A rose doesn't need to ask anything of me. I give to its...
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"BROTHERS, WHAT WE DO IN LIFE... ECHOES IN ETERNITY. " RUSSELL CROWE, AS MAXIMUS, IN THE FILM GLADIATOR Image of the Road leading home for the Gladiator. Image by Greg Weeks on YSVoice ...
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"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers...
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CL Fornari "gets it". Landscapes nourish body, mind, heart and soul. Writing from the opposite corner of our country, one of my personal heroes is CL Fornari . She says "Many of us see a...
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It is hard to imagine a slogan which did more to harm California agricultural interests and gardening enthusiasm than the slogan on this sign. NO! I am not a drought denier. I am the wif...
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"Gardening is the art that uses flower and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." ~ Elizabeth Murray Iamge from Previous Tour, courtesy of RSSM The Rose Society of Sadd...
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"What I do and what I drink include thee as the wine must taste of its own grapes." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning Romance in the Garden. This was the promised topic to present the Leis...
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"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet our heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" ~Matthew 6:26 Look who ...
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“ I associate the word "wild" with wildflowers, wild roses, things in fields that haven't been hurt yet! So let's be things in fields that have healed and that have grown. Let's be wild.” ...
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"What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country." ~ Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784) The current owners are caretakers of the home's history ...
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"You can't really have a relationship with God unless you have your hands in the garden." ~ Georgia S. The garden is like Georgia, effervescent Meet Georgia. Once a chef in one of th...
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A tiny hummingbird rests on a gurgling fountain "There is not a fragment in all of Nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself." ~John Muir ...
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"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations." ~Washington Irving Add caption(L...
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