From the Passenger Seat...

"What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce."

~ Karl Lagerfeld ~ 

When I'm a passenger, I'm usually quiet and I keep busy.  My camera is always on my lap. I captured this beautiful moment while riding along the seafront in Thessaloniki. 

The Quintessential Donkey

To carry his load without resting, not to be bothered by heat or cold and always be content: these three things we can learn from a donkey. 

~Indian Proverb~

Almond Blossoms II

Almond blossom, sent to teach us

  That the spring days soon will reach us.

      ~ Sir Edwin Arnold~

Have a nice weekend...

Curiosity

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.~Arnold Edinborough

My Sunflowers

Three days without internet,

One day with no phone (thanks OTE!) grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

two sick children,

no electric for a whole afternoon,

gloomy, rainy weather...

I'm glad that I remembered to plant sunflowers.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. --Helen Keller

Sunflowers~~Vincent van Gogh

Friends...

Where there are friends, there is wealth.

~Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Spider on a Rose

"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line"

~Alexander Pope