Enlightenment

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, 

and how far I have yet to go. 

 ~

Anthony Bourdain 

Imperfectly Perfect

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. 
Perfection simply doesn't exist...without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

~
Stephen Hawking

Ginger Afternoon

It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt 

to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet. 

~

Dodie Smith

The Journey That Matters

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

~

Ursula K. Le Guin

I Love Boca

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. 
~

Lucille Ball 

In Search of Treasure

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure.  It all depends on how you view your life. ~ Paulo Coelho

Before I Was Hers

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, 

though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.

~

Mark Doty  

Summer Wonder

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

~

Mary Oliver

Wading

"Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! 
I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!"

~

Bill Watterson

The Tonic of Wildness

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. 

We can never have enough of nature.

~ 

Henry David Thoreau

Natural Beauties

Too stunning not to share these beautiful portraits of my girls, taken by one of my best friends, Steig Ole Lerbakken who is staying with me for the summer. He is available for pet (and human) portrait sessions in Colorado, Arizona and California. 

All is well with us - in fact, 2017 continues to be the best year in a very long time in so many ways. I'm relishing the summer and all of its adventures, and the Ginger Sisters adore our new roommate. I get my tattoo of Ruby in less than two weeks and will be back to share that as well!

Purple Chair Sessions

My aunt moved into a new house that they are fixing up, and it's filled with her usual sense of style and beautiful light, so I took the oppportunity over Thanksgiving to snap some pictures of the Ginger Sisters with their new cousin, Mozzie.

Unique In All The World

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. 

To me, you will be unique in all the world. 

To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

~
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Sweeter Than Soap

I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can't even bark... 

 ~

Mary Oliver 

Potcake Ready to Pounce

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

~
Mae West

A New Look

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. 

~
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Laughing by the Lake

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.

~

Frida Kahlo 

Simple Serenity

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

~
Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre

Warrior for Love

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

~

Cheryl Strayed

Amethyst Harvest

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

~

Edna Ferber