Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week. Cameo Memories

...my grandmother's locket cameo, rediscovered this past weekend...

I have only to take down this or that to flood my soul with memories.

~Dorothie Deluzy

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Graduation Inspiration

1920's -1930's Art Deco medals of achievement, from my personal collection

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

~Henry David Thoreau

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week. We Remember.

WWII post cards to support the troops, from 1942

In war: resolution.

In defeat: defiance.

In victory: magnanimity.

In peace: goodwill.

~Winston Churchill

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Wild Roses

wild roses, near the beach at Carkeek Park, Seattle

Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.

~Walter De La Mare

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Flora and Fauna at Discovery Park

wildflower with insects, Discovery Park, Seattle

I love to smell flowers in the dark ... You get hold of their soul then.

~Lucy Maud Montgomery

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, May Blossoms

May opened up her basket,

And I looked in to see

A sky of blue,

The great sun too,

Both smiling out at me.

May opened up her basket,

And out the flowers fell.

Their fragrance spilled

Until it filled

All nature with its spell.

May opened up her basket,

Her choristers were there!

Their welcoming

To joy and spring

Was wafted on the air.

She opened up her basket-

The world was blithely gay.

Earth knew again

The ample regin

And blessing of the May!

~Leland B. Jacobs

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Color Inspiration

Vintage glass teardrop cabochons and rhinestones, 1950's to 1960's, my studio at Greenlake, Seattle

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

~John Lubbock

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Giving Thanks for Trees and More

Sun through maple leaves at the Japanese Garden, Seattle



i thank You God for most this amazing

day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth

day of life and love and wings:and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any--lifted from the no

of all nothing--human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~e e cummings

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Red Tulips

Emma's tulips, from our garden at Greenlake, Seattle

Spring, thy name is color.

~Libbie Fudim

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, The Sound of Water

red bridge over waterfall, Kubota Gardens, Seattle

At the ancient pond

a frog plunges into

the sound of water

~Basho

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival

Drummers at the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival, Seattle Center

Live in simple faith...

Just as this simple cherry

Flower, fades and falls.

~Issa

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, At the Edge of a Petal

Al's plum blossoms, across the street from our house at Greenlake, Seattle

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
~William Carlos Williams

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Pink Camellias

pink camellias, our garden at Greenlake, Seattle

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~Hans Christian Andersen

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Spring Tulips

tulips at the Pike Place Market, Seattle

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, The Importance of Play

Eric's and Sharon's wind up toys, kept within reach on our desks

Teach us delight in simple things.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, To A Snow-Drop

snowdrops, Discovery Park, Seattle

Lone flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they

But hardier far, once more I see thee bend

Thy forehead, as if fearful to offend,

Like an unbidden guest. Though day by day,

Storms, sallying from the mountain-tops, waylay

The rising sun, and on the plains descend;

Yet art thou welcome, welcome as a friend...

~ from To A Snow-Drop by William Wordsworth

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, The Singing Bird in Your Heart

Goldfinch, Washington's State Bird.

Rendered as an original art pin cushion, displaying my vintage hat pins.

Beautiful art by Tracie Lyn Huskamp, The Red Door Studio.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.

~Chinese proverb

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Happy Valentine's Day

dance as though no one is watching

love as though you have never been hurt before

sing as though no one can hear you

live as though heaven is on earth

Happy Valentines's Day!

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Violets First Bloom

first bloom of our violets just beginning, our garden at Greenlake, Seattle, Feb 7, 2011

I smelt the violets in her hand and asked, half in words,

half in signs, a question which meant

"Is love the sweetness of flowers?"

~Helen Keller

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, First Signs of Spring at Discovery Park

very first blossoms appearing at Discovery Park, Seattle, Jan 31, 2011

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees,

Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

~William Cowper