Remember Who 8 and What of September (sic)

“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”
-Slavic saying

Australian birds are just divine - colour like this Yellow bellied beauty are absent in Europe (jb Sep 2014)

As a tree must learn to bend when the wind blows to prevent it from breaking apart, together we have learned to bend in the bad times and stand tall during the good. May we continue to stand tall together for many more years to come...

“Nature writing” has become a cant phrase. But whatever you call it, we're living in a golden age of such  literature 

Malchkeon's Purple Pride

Native Lovers: Bottlebrush of Reds via Winter 2015

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
– Mignon McLaughlin

Two centuries ago, C.S. Lewis wrote: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

 ...We Are Never Too Old for Anything ;~)

Squeezing, falsifying, accentuating, stiffening: Clothing has always been about artifice. And choosing what we wear has never been rational

After many years
Pleasure is a golden hillside,
Passionate and still.
Your bedrooms and your hands are free,
After unshed tears;
Now much of life is tucked away,
No longer touched by will.
In your hearts a wilderness,
Vast and undisturbed,
Empty of all sentiments
Renews the moment’s glory.
So may years of tenderness,
Also sung unheard,
Radiant beyond all sense
Yet tell love’s ancient story.

The Dangers of Arras Boutiques ...

An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of (shoe-shopping) yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow... 


Spouse:  someone who’ll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had if you’d stayed single.

Arras Smiled with Summer Flowers

Do you want to join the Navy or be a Pirate? (Steve Jobs)

I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be yours.  I said that.  (Bob Dylan)

Love is the Last Frontier.  (Tom Russell)

Second Malchkeon Lisa smile

Why do so many new restaurant names sound the same?