Sunday Selection

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Nothing Gold Can Stay 

by Robert Frost 

Nature's first green is gold, 

Her hardest hue to hold. 

Her early leaf's a flower; 

But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 

So Eden sank to grief, 

So dawn goes down to day. 

Nothing gold can stay.

Sunday Selections

You are my Sunshine, My Only Sunshine

Toot, Celie, Hammie



You make me happy....when skies are gray



Lily, Celie, Porkchop, Toot, Hammie



You'll never know dear...

I swear, he's a cat - not a potbelly pig

how much I Love You



Sheena/Sha Nay Nay/Old Lady

Please don't take... my sunshine away.



Badger, Tory, Bugsy



Sunday Selections

Delicious autumn!

My very soul is wedded to it,

and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth

seeking the successive autumns.

~George Eliot

Sunday Selections

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

~Louisa May Alcott

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Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree.

 

I shall smile when wreaths of snow

Blossom where the rose should grow;

I shall sing when night's decay

Ushers in a drearier day.

~ Emily Bronte

Sunday Selections

The Gardener's Morning

The robin's song at daybreak

Is a clarion call to me.

Get up and get out in the garden,

For the morning hours flee.

I cannot resist the summons,

What earnest gardener could?

For the golden hours of morning

Get into the gardener's blood.

The magic spell is upon me,

I'm glad that I did not wait;

For life's at its best in the morning,

As you pass through the garden gate.

- Howard Dolf

Sunday Selections

Garden Sanctuary

You who walk,

Maybe with troubled thoughts,

Come, enter here and rest;

And may the sweet serenity of growing things,

And the heavenly peace

Be mirrored in thy soul.

-Doxis M. Palmer

Sunday Selections

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

-- Claude Monet

Sunday Selections

He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally

considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small

compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world

with a passion for flowers in his soul.

- Celia Thaxter

Sunday Selections

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

- Kozuko Okakura

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
- Marianne Moore

Sunday Selections

Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower

could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply

wasn't room for any other thought....

- Sophie Scholl

Sunday Selections

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

- Kahlil Gibran

Sunday Selections

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

- Chinese proverb

Happy World Forestry Day

Sunday Selections

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

- William Carlos Williams

Sunday Selections

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.

~Leo Buscaglia

Sunday Selections

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage.

~Finnish Proverb

Sunday Selections

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
~Simone Signoret

Sunday Selections

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly

Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:

So this winged hour is dropt to us from above.

Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,

This close-companioned inarticulate hour

When twofold silence was the song of love.

-Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Sunday Selections

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

-Charles Dickens