I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

~Helen Keller

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

~Aristotle

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

~Claude Monet

Sea purslane

Sesuvium portulacastrum

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

~Joseph Addison

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

~Frank Herbert

Is everyone having fun with The Great Backyard Bird Count?

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~e e cummings

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

~Patricia Neal

Mistletoe growing in one of our oak trees

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

~Malcolm Forbes

Coreopsis (also called tickseed)

Florida's state wildflower

There are thirteen species of coreopsis.  Twelve are native to Florida and one of those is endangered.  These grow mostly in the northwest corner of our property, but occasionally spring up elsewhere.  I always hate to have to cut them down when mowing. 

I adore simple pleasures.  They are the last refuge of the complex.

~Oscar Wilde

Glauca ti

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

~Oscar Levant

Sand dune

Life is full of beauty.  Notice it.  Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.  Smell the rain and feel the wind.  Live your life to the fullest potential and fight for your dreams.

~Ashley Smith

Brown pelicans

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Atlantic Ocean