...and Lovely Views

Sometimes the words whisper freely to you and you can't write them down fast enough...and sometimes you wait and wait for them to arrive...
...Sometimes they wait on hot tea, cranberry scones and cream,
solitude and quiet, music with no words, and lovely views...
"Look in thy heart, and write"
~Sir Philip Sidney

I Watch the World Go By

I watch the world go by, it seems to stand still for me

I watch the world go by, pondering what I see

The fine art gallery hung in the sky, waiting for me just outside

Beauty and wind and sounds, I watch them go by as the birds make their rounds



I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran

Spot of Tea

Tea is on my mind since I have been sipping it for a sore throat the past few days. My "teas" are very informal, but I look back at other more formal teas I've been to with good memories. A cream tea in London with my mom, a sisterly tea with my sisters at a local tea shoppe, a high-waters tea on a cruise - with classical music being played softly in the background, or a family tea presented by my sister when she had a tea business.
I've always wanted to replicate the delicious scones I had in England, but nothing I've made or tried has compared to them so far. I'd go back to England just for the scones. There is always time for tea!

Photo by Herve Libaud

Always June

"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June."
~L. M. Montgomery


Photo by Lynn Keddie

Shaggy Muses

Book Share Fridays: Shaggy Muses
Official Site
"Adams, a clinical psychologist, explores the many roles - companions, objects of affection, witnesses, protectors, guides - these dogs played in their owners' lives and their appearances in their work. How charming to visualize delicate Emily Dickinson with amiable Carlo, her Newfoundland, living their lives in Amherst, or Edith Wharton, traveling through Europe with her Pekes."
- The Times

"These stories - based on diaries, letters and contemporary accounts with several photographs, many told here for the first time - reveal intimate details and new perspectives on these giants of English and American literature, made even more memorable by Adams' lively writing."
- The Providence Journal

Angels Sing To Start The Day

My heart longs for those gone ahead
Who now reside in another place,
Where gold adorns the streets
And angels sing to start the day

Top Hats & Bonnets

Another reason to love the Brits - they dress up every year in top hats and bonnets, for Royal Ascot. Much like a couple from another era...



























...Or a fair lady with a loverly accent!
Wouldn't it be loverly?!

Walk With Me

A walk in the rose garden is always a good thing...



...even if the garden belongs to someone or something else, ...while you walk it, it is yours. These roses are from the Portland Rose Festival several years ago. Beautiful!

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
~Emma Goldman

Something Old, Something New

Something old~


Something new~


Something borrowed~


Something blue~

Cottage Poems

Book Share Fridays: "Cottage Poems" by Patrick Bronte
Book Summary of Cottage Poems (Dodo Press)
"Reverend Patrick Bronte (1777-1861) was an Irish Anglican curate and writer, who spent most of his adult life in England and was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, and of Branwell Bronte, his only son. Born Patrick Brunty, he formally changed the spelling of his name from Brunty to Bronte. He had several apprenticeships until he became a teacher in 1798 and moved to Cambridge in 1802 to study theology at St. John's College, gaining his BA degree in 1806. He was appointed curate at Wethersfield, Essex, where he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England, and ordained into the priesthood in 1807. In 1809 he became assistant curate at Wellington in Shropshire and in 1810 he published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper, followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verse, Cottage Poems. The following year he was appointed school examiner at a Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove School. He remained active for local causes into his old age, and after the death of his last surviving child, Charlotte, he co-operated with Elizabeth Gaskell on her biography."

This is available for free as a Kindle book on Amazon, or as an ebook.

Blue & White

Blue and white, ...once a classic, always a classic! These are Medieval tiles found in Europe - simply beautiful!
Photos Copyrighted by Gary White

Scope for the Imagination

These pictures represent to me a place to be inspired, a place to be still, a scope for the imagination. What inspires you - What's your view?





Photo Credits:
Robert James Gordon "Woman Reading"
Fiona Mcleod "Frosty and Snowy Garden with Views to the Surrounding Countryside"
Shirley Braithwaite Hunt "English Cottage"
Alice Dalton Brown "Blues Come Through"
Victor Gabriel Gilbert

Angel Gabriel Blue

If you know the British show, "Keeping Up Appearances," you'll know "Angel Gabriel Blue." I hope you make it to part three for Richard's "gout." Truly a classic!

Le Bon Ton of Her Time

Years ago I read a book called, "The Duchess of Devonshire," which was later made into a movie with Keira Knightley playing the Duchess. In the book, it talks about "Le bon ton," which meant the highest fashion and taste possible in society. Tonight, when I came across this photo, I thought surely this lady must have been "le bon ton," of her time.

Too Many To Mourn

Book Share Fridays: Too Many To Mourn

"Using the facts and family tales of the terrible Halifax Explosion, James and Rowena Mahar have created a compelling story of loss and grief and the triumph of faith over great obstacles. Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award, 1999."
~From Amazon