So glad to see you again, Marcia. It seems that in your state, trees wears their fall costume already !So beautiful to watch. Nature knows to give its best at this time of year. I imagine the scent too. This inspire me a chimney fire, with a bunch of flames.
During the summer holidays, I visited Jilly from Menton Daily Photo, a dear english friend blogger, as we were in the same town. I have already met her previously, and we remained friends. She encouraged me to continue, and told me to forget my doubts about the usefulness of blogging, and the difficulties to stay up to date with comments. So here I am again. I will continue to visit the best blogs I love, those I love their writer personality, their pictures, just them. That way it will remain only the pleasure of blogging. Blogging is persuasive, don't you think, Marcia ? You can be easily overwhelmed, no ? So I'll stay with my dear friends bloggers whom you make part. Writing in englsh is difficult you know, after having gave up during 3 months ! But I will learn again....Smile.
I just had to say how completely gorgeous you looked today. You have one of the prettiest faces ever and with you teaching today I was able to look at it and see just how darn gorgeous you are! Great job, by the way.
As I looked at your pictures my mind gave me the pungent smell of an autumn day. Is there anything better than the moment, thanks for sharing your pictures.
Color like this is strong enough to turn my frown into a smile. Utterly gorgeous...and a great segue into next week's red theme for Thematic. Got any more stunners like these in the collection?
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.
21 comments:
I love your autumn colours.
The photos are vibrant!
That is quite red. Autumn has definitely arrived where you are.
All these WW posts showing the changing leaves ... I am SOOOO JEALOUS! I love Fall. I love the colors. I want trees with changing leaves in SD!
Happy WW! See photos of my favorite garden in London ... Kensington Gardens http://tinyurl.com/ykoq3ty
So rich and warm. It's really wonderful to see these images of autumn. Thanks for sharing. Happy WW
So glad to see you again, Marcia. It seems that in your state, trees wears their fall costume already !So beautiful to watch. Nature knows to give its best at this time of year. I imagine the scent too. This inspire me a chimney fire, with a bunch of flames.
During the summer holidays, I visited Jilly from Menton Daily Photo, a dear english friend blogger, as we were in the same town. I have already met her previously, and we remained friends. She encouraged me to continue, and told me to forget my doubts about the usefulness of blogging, and the difficulties to stay up to date with comments. So here I am again. I will continue to visit the best blogs I love, those I love their writer personality, their pictures, just them. That way it will remain only the pleasure of blogging. Blogging is persuasive, don't you think, Marcia ? You can be easily overwhelmed, no ? So I'll stay with my dear friends bloggers whom you make part. Writing in englsh is difficult you know, after having gave up during 3 months ! But I will learn again....Smile.
Beautiful leaves. I's such a glorious time of year.
Such beautiful leaves and such nice photos.
Beautiful! This must be from the east coast, because there is no color like that down here! ;o)
I love the beautiful colors of Autumn. :)
I just had to say how completely gorgeous you looked today. You have one of the prettiest faces ever and with you teaching today I was able to look at it and see just how darn gorgeous you are!
Great job, by the way.
I love fall and all of it's brilliant shades
great shots
As I looked at your pictures my mind gave me the pungent smell of an autumn day. Is there anything better than the moment, thanks for sharing your pictures.
Very nice shots. That self timing one on the rock turned out nice ;)
These are maple leaves, right? They are so beautiful! Great shots!
my RT entry is here.
wow what amazing shots..i love those cherry looking berries and the boston creeper
Your shots are awesome; such wonderful colors.
My favorite shot is the single leaf caught in between the rocks.
Stop by for a visit.
Stupendous perspective on that first shot, and compelling composition!
Awesome autumn feeling!
Color like this is strong enough to turn my frown into a smile. Utterly gorgeous...and a great segue into next week's red theme for Thematic. Got any more stunners like these in the collection?
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