Vintage

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. "

~ Jane Austen

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

~ William Shakespeare

The Taste of June

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are." - Ernst Haas

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching,of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." - Aaron Siskind

-Erin :)

A Time To Plant

"To every thing there a season and a time to every purpose under heaven: "

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

--Aristotle

"The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead:

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, 

And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;

That is the Grasshopper's-- he takes the lead

In summer luxury, --he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost 

Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills 

The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, 

The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills."

- John Keats

A World of Difference~ Children

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."

~Walt Streightiff

"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized." ~Margaret Atwood

"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."

~Author Unknown

The Mark of a Photographer

I thought I'd share a random photograph {though it is neither my week nor an assignment, but I thought you would all enjoy this}

Friday night we had a lovely little formal dinner. All the girls dressed up and we met for some photos. I spied Willow down on the ground getting a good shot of Abbie and laughed....

The mark of a true photographer is that she is more concerned for the getting the right shot then keeping her dress clean!