Beautiful shots! I'm sitting here, with the window open, listening to and enjoying the refreshing spring rain here this morning. Very fitting for your photos. :D
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
23 comments:
Cool shots, you should be happy for the rain, no?? Ours is up as well at burntofferings and more at bernies fotoblog.
Have a great WW!!
Beautiful shots.
I'm loving those! And the lovely couple who close the show are adorable, too!
Loved the rain too!!! Tomorrow is supposed to bring more. Aren't we ducky? I think I need some quackers...
I'm scrolling along thinking "nice shots" then...the ducks! Love the ducks:)
I LOVE that last rose petal-and-raindrops shot, and the snail one is beautiful.
the photographs of the flowers are simply impressive!!
Happy WW!
Great shots. I love the smell of rain in spring. Happy WW
Marvelous, all of them! I just love, love love the snail!!!
What great shots.
Happy WW
Beautiful shots, marcia! Nourishing rain, aaah lovely! :)
Beautiful photos! I absolutely loved looking and thinking "wow, nice flowers...oooh beautiful petals...look at the water on that flower...DUCKS!"
Amazing.
Happy WW :)
The daisy is my favorite. I love their simplicity and that shot is lovely!
Beautiful shots! I'm sitting here, with the window open, listening to and enjoying the refreshing spring rain here this morning. Very fitting for your photos. :D
Fantastic close up work. I just got a macro lens so I'm all about this kind of work lately. Thanks for sharing them.
Glad it was nourishing rain. Lovely photos. I especially like the first one.
Gorgeous shots!
Some absolutely beautiful close-ups! I love the one of the daisy, especially :)
Thanks for stopping by my place for WW! :)
Those are neat pictures!
Those pictures were just fantastic!
Here is my WW post for today.
Have a great WW day!
Thank YOU for the chat last night. I've been in the best mood all day because of it. How'd you lesson go? I bet you are a zombie today.
I love how the white daisy is looking!! :) Beautiful.
WOW!!! Those are awesome pictures!
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