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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to…
image notes: film photograph, approximately 1993 Tommy wandered quite a bit, as tom cats will do, but he always came jumping over the six foot wood fence about dusk. Then, one night he didn’t. If the pull…
your geese are coming to my house for the winter Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. — Hawthorne said that
they were nestled in the high grasses and i didn’t know, but when i scared them, they scared me, and i was pleasantly surprised that i kept my presence of mind to trip the shutter Photography is…
kine ‘kīn archaic plural of cow Darkness had fallen on the feedlot and in the barns and on a normal evening we would have been up at the house settling in for the night. Preparation for the morning…
it’s a Toad and to me, it looks like it’s wearing the Egyptian garb of a king. you know the kind i mean ? with the headdress ? it strikes me as being very stately. How strange that nature…
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. — that Mark Twain guy said that
Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’ and regretted the ‘passing of the horse’, but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. — C.W. Anderson said that
i have a difficult time with insects because they’re so creepy There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin said…
