Inspiration..............

Happy Spring!

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,and paints his own nature into his pictures."

~Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty and Grace............

Music & Gardens

Music and gardens are so much the same.

Then move me deeply, call me by my name

And lead me out,

Away from all life's strain and stress

Into a place of enchanting loveliness.

Flowers may wither away,

Music may hush and grow still

Like a will-o-the-wisp that has vanished

Over the hill.

But gardens live on in the earth

In bulb and root and seed

And rise to a newness of life

That is marvel indeed.

Beauty is everlasting,

Failing us never;

Music may hush for a time

But music goes on forever.

God, give life within that I, too, may be

An enchanted garden, blooming enternally.

~ Wilna Wintringham

Spring Fever..........

It's Spring Fever.

 That is what the name of it is.

And when you've got it,

you want~oh,

you don't quite know what it is you

 do want,but it just fairly makes your heart ache,

you want it so!

~Mark Twain

Sunshine In My Life.........

Children are a heritage of the Lord. ~Psalm 127:3

                               

Yesterday my first born baby boy, Daniel Allan, turned  24!  Of course as you can see he is not a baby anymore....He has grown into an incredible young man.  I am so very proud of him today. He works hard and is currently attending college. He Loves his family and especially  loves to be Nathen's "Uncle D" ( Nathen loves it too!) I can't believe that it's  been 24 years........wow......again "time flies" !

Happy Birthday Danny Boy!

WE Love YOU!

Beauty and Grace.........

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

 

~ John Keats

 

 

Heather's Wedding ~ "2009"  

 

 

The Masters........

Life is your art.

An open, aware heart is your camera.

A oneness with your world is your film.

Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

~ Ansel Adams

Rest.........

My Soul Finds Rest in God Alone....Psalm 62

"You are a human being, not a human doing. Take time to just be, to breath slowly, to feel your body that is the temple of your soul. No activities, no worries, no buzzing". ~ Facebook (God Wants You To Know..)



RELAX! 
Take it easy....quit being so serious...have FUN....laugh....dance....sleep...ride your bike....watch a movie...read a book....go for a walk....play.....take a hot bath...enjoy quiet time alone with God....call an old friend...listen to some music... just "Be".

Show yourself some Love.

The Masters............

Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815 –1879, was a famous British photographer. When she was 48 years old, Cameron received her first camera as a present from her daughter, and started her career as a photographer at a time when photography was new and challenging. The bulk of Cameron's photographs fit into two categories, closely framed portraits or else illustrative allegories based on religious and literary works. In the allegorical works, she posed her subjects in period costumes with fantasy props. The lighting is soft and feathery, with subjects portraying characters like angels and poets.



Some of her famous subjects include: Charles Darwin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Everett Millais, William Michael Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Ellen Terry and George Frederic Watts. Her unconventional portrait style, which included close cropping, soft focus and emphasis on capturing the personality, is still imitated today. Many of Cameron's portraits are significant because they are often the only existing photographs of historical figures.




Shrewdly, Julia Cameron copyrighted each of her photographs, so that much of her work survives today. She wrote, "I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied."