From The Patch

Thoughtful Friday 16

"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
- Grandma Moses

Thoughtful Friday 15

"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Thoughtful Friday 14

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."  --Mary Kay Ash

Thoughtful Friday 13

Ironic that our Thoughtful Friday 13 is on Friday the 13th? :)

A Snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!  -Anonymous

 

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.  -Pepper Giardino

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.  -Margaret Atwood

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? -J.B. Priestly

"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thoughtful Friday 12

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a brand new ending."  -Carl Bard

Thoughtful Friday 11

"Listen!  The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!" - Humbert Wolfe

Thoughtful Friday 11

“Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau

Photo taken 9/30/2008, Ebey's Landing, Whidbey Island Washington
The rocks were already stacked.
By Chris Tindall

Thoughtful Friday 10

“You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.”

--Barbara Hall

Thoughtful Friday 9

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.  ~William Stafford

Thoughtful Friday 8

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot?  Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. ~Astrid Alauda

P.S.  Don't forget that the wonderful Farmer's Market at Country Village only goes through the month of September - get your fresh, local, organic produce while you can!  Plus, there is just something totally different and fantastic about shopping in an open air market...