Weekly Quotation: Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekly Quotation: B.F. Skinner

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

― B.F. Skinner

Weekly Quotation: Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

― Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

 

 

Weekly Quotation: Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

― Pablo Picasso

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

I took these photos on a beautiful, clear blue sky day. I used the blue sky itself as a background while looking up. We often don’t view flowers looking up from underneath.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

Spring is my favorite season when so many changes occur. Flowers slowly emerge from the ground and buds blossom upon trees. I love to see the colors come alive everywhere after a cold, wet, and dull winter. This week’s photo challenge focuses on change. I decided to highlight  Rhododendrons growing outside my house. Rhododendrons are Washington’s  state flower. I found flowers on the same bush at different flowering stages.

 

 

 

 

 

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Weekly Quotation: Saul Bellow

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

― Saul Bellow

Weekly Quotation: Abraham Lincoln

Get books, sit yourself down, and go to reading them yourself.

- Abraham Lincoln

Weekly Quotation: Michael Upchurch

The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

― Michael Upchurch

Weekly Quotation: Edith Lovejoy Pierce

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

May your ‘book’ for 2013 be filled with pages of happiness!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry

One of my favorite photo ‘subjects’ is geometric and abstract designs. Black and white enhances bold shapes in photos. So I combined B&W and geometric designs around my city for this week’s photo challenge: geometry.

 

 

 

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy

I’m very late for this week’s photo challenge. I was excited to learn how to insert a photo gallery into a post. These are a few things that make me happy. I enjoy beautiful flowers, sweet desserts, wonderful books, and my dog & family.

Weekly Quote: C.S. Lewis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

― C.S. Lewis

Weekly Quote: Mark Twain

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

― Mark Twain