summer bounty (cut paper)

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
-Ashley Smith

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

And this our life exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks
Sermons in stones and good in everything.
-William Shakespeare

The earth laughs in flowers.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thank you God for this amazing day . . . for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
-e.e.cummings

Some people like flowers, give pleasure just by being.
-unknown

A cluster of berry siblings, all from the same stem-
Some come to ripeness early
Some linger back and absorb nutrients at a more tranquil pace.
They are all right on time in Your gracious agenda.

-Mary VK Peterson Espial: Noticings and Spottings

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.
No man can heed all these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
-Aldo Leopold

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. -Albert Einstein

Interlude at the pond - 3/3 (acrylics on blackboard)

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. e.e.cummings

2/3

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it.
-Herman Mellville - Moby Dick

1/3

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at...waves rippling on a pond.... - Ralph Marston

People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. - Alice Walker The Color Purple

Look at the field lillies...if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won't He more surely care for you...?
Matthew 6:28, 30

Look around you: Winter is over.... Spring flowers are in blossom all over. Spring warblers are filling the forest.... Lilacs are exuberantly purple and perfumed.... Song of Songs 2 - The Message