Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing

We just closed escrow on our new house in central California!

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence. Joan Mills

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. Author Unknown

“No man can be condemed for owning a dog.

As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;

and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.”
~ Will Rogers

L.A. Day of the Dead Festival

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

Found this among old photos while visiting my Mom & Dad in Texas. We were all dressed up to go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time. yikes!

All still when summer is over
stand shocks in the field,
nothing left to whisper,
not even good-bye, to the wind.

After summer was over
we knew winter would come:
we knew silence would wait,
tall, patient calm.
~William Stafford, Tragic Song

Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. Gerald De Nerval