Tag Archives: seasons

the only spring.

Standard

“every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”

-ellis peters

image credit: google images

edges.

Standard

daylight savings time kicks in

dance on the edges.

michigan.

Standard

img_8001

porter’s front porch on a michigan weekend 

“i think michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs.

in michigan, i do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.”

– jeff daniels 

out.

Standard

img_8082

the kinders celebrate the return of the sun

with no coats and fast feet and smiles a mile wide.


“i’m youth, i’m joy, i’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

-james m. barrie

groundhog.

Standard

coffee-art-groundhog-day-2016-2
“turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

~maori proverb

happy groundhog day

and

may your face find the sun.

image credit: angel sarkela-saur

today we are on our way back towards spring.

Standard

c6641bd90584b3931fdf2800e84aa3dc

15622548_958522530950250_4336076898483205812_n-2

credits: pinterest – finland 1950s, word porn

on the solstice.

Standard

15384520_10154141464348297_1661971500684992690_o

“snow was falling,

so much like stars filling the dark trees

that one could easily imagine

its reason for being

was nothing more than prettiness.”

— mary oliver

credits: Faerie Magazine – ‘The Meeting Point’
Original painting in mixed media by Kerry Darlington

sandals.

Standard

cl

just one more good reason why i wear sandals until after halloween.

croc

Woman scares off crocodile with flip-flop in Australia
2 October 2016 

A woman has scared away a salt water crocodile, which was swimming towards her and her dog, by slapping her flip-flop at it. It is thought that are at least 120 crocodiles in this stretch of the East Alligator River, in Kakadu National Park. The last fatal attack there was in 1987.

“life is too short to wear boring shoes.”

-author unknown

credits: bbcnews.com

september.

Standard

IMG_2832

“we know that in september,

we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage.

we will welcome summer’s ghost.”

-henry rollins 

tradition.

Standard

ed0d4564a98424837e7288fd06f66dfa

“being a traditionalist, i’m a rabid sucker for christmas.

in july, i’m already worried that there are only

146 shopping days left.”

-john waters

image credit: pinterest vintage