"Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man."
--George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world." --John Muir
"The poetry of the earth is never dead." --John Keats
"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles
when every year there are miracles like white dogwood." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
when every year there are miracles like white dogwood." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
This is not done by jostling in the street." --William Blake
"Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in
a while, and you'll find it there." --Robb Sagendorph
"Nature is a writer's best friend." --Agave Powers
We were privileged to spend this past weekend in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains with good friends. What a relaxing, peaceful, regrouping time. Oh, that there be some carryover into work this week!
Just thought I'd share a bit of the view before getting back to work :-) What view are you looking at this week?
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Ohhh...that walking photos and the view from the porch and the flowers. So lovely. Thanks for sharing. We've had a slow spring this year, so my view (finally) is of greening grass and budding trees.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Barbara :-) Enjoy the beauty as it unfolds in your neck of the woods...
ReplyDeleteYour photos are so lovely. I had to laugh when you asked what view I am seeing this week. Unless I'm in my character's head, just about the only view I have is this computer screen! (Wait - can I count the screensaver?)
ReplyDeleteAs long as your screensaver gives you some kind of inspiration, Peggy. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI have to ask - Did you sit on that porch and write?
DeleteOooh, very inviting but no, didn't write. But conversations with friends were good so didn't miss it :-)
DeleteStill, the place would make a great writer's retreat!
Love the pictures Kenda. Smoky mountains sounds like my kind of place.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rachna! I'm sure you'd love the Smokies, too :-)
DeleteOur own creative works will never come close to matching God's handiwork. Beautiful pictures!
ReplyDeleteI live in a peaceful place (mostly) with breezes blowing the tender green wheat shafts like waves in an ocean. And a robin--or sometimes a woodpecker, groups of quail, a hoot owl, magpies, meadowlarks, sparrows, red-winged blackbirds--sing outside of my office window.
There's also deer and coyotes.
Your place sounds wonderful, Cathy! We are blessed, aren't we, to have beauty all around us both at home and places we travel. Thanks for sharing...
DeleteJust wanted to let you know I do come back and read your replies to people who've left comments, although on my own blog, I'm lucky if I get around to replying to my own reader's comments. And then when I do, I feel like I'm whistling in the wind.
DeleteThanks, Cathy--as you can see (if you ever drop back in at this post again :-) that sometimes it takes days to get back to a thread. But you're very kind to let me know you do check back. Appreciate your support. Makes me want to give others the same!
DeleteLove the quotes and photos...I need to find a hill to climb at sunrise :) Wish our weather was as nice as Tennessee's!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures from your trip! Wow....lovely and inspiring!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jess and supermom! Appreciate your comments bunches :-)
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