I Spy with my Wondering Eye something Beautiful

01/03/2025

27/02/2025

It’s ok to shop local and support small businesses.

24/02/2025

“Whatever happens, stay alive. Don’t die before you’re dead. Don’t lose yourself, don’t lose hope, don’t loose direction.

Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.

Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.

Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, fill yourself with colors of the world, fill yourself with peace, fill yourself with hope.

Stay alive with joy.

There is only one thing you should not waste in life, and that’s life itself.”

- Virginia Woolf

12/02/2025

“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”

25/01/2025

Happy Robert Burns day to my Scottish friends and family! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🤍

"LOUD blaw the frosty breezes,
The snaws the mountains cover;
Like winter on me seizes,
Since my young Highland rover
Far wanders nations over.
Where’er he go, where’er he stray,
May heaven be his warden;
Return him safe to fair Strathspey,
And bonie Castle-Gordon!

The trees, now naked groaning,
Shall soon wi’ leaves be hinging,
The birdies dowie moaning,
Shall a’ be blythely singing,
And every flower be springing;
Sae I’ll rejoice the lee-lang day,
When by his mighty Warden
My youth’s return’d to fair Strathspey,
And bonie Castle-Gordon."

21/01/2025

I don’t like having my personal account being updated to automatically follow anyone. The last time I checked we still had free will and the freedom to choose who we want to support. Check who you are following here and if it’s not someone you chose on your own unfollow them manually and block if you so desire.

15/01/2025

I loved the way the shadow from the tree looked and how the sun was positioned behind it.

14/01/2025

Last nights Wolf moon. 🐺🌕🖤

01/01/2025

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m not for a moment,
expecting this to occur,
for that is not possible,
a year must be all things.

Happiness must come and go,
like the tides and the winds,
just as sadness,
and all the emotions in between.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you,
a baseline of peace,
of gratitude.

Because if you can sit with these things,
for the most part,
happiness will thrive,
when it does arrive,
and sadness will know its place in the mix.

If you can nourish these things,
daily,
you will also grow hope,
for it flourishes in such soil.

And hope is the key,
to this enigmatic state
of ‘happiness’ we seek.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you more happy days,
than sad days,
more joy than misery,
more laughter than tears…
and the wisdom to accept,
that they all belong.

Happy new year, my friends.
Happy new year.

Donna Ashworth

From my guided daily journal ‘Words to live by’.
https://amzn.eu/d/fMz6Qzv

28/12/2024

Winter Lights at the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, NC

23/12/2024

Saw this beautiful Cardinal driving to down to the OBX yesterday. He/she was sitting on the roof rack of my Highlander. ❤️

23/12/2024

It came without ribbons
It came without bows
It came without packages, boxes or bags.
Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas, means a little bit more..

Dr Seuss ⭐

Artist Credit: Bijde Hansje

21/12/2024

"So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, fest, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!!"
- Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day
Image: SWATH Concept Art by Sebastian Meyer

20/11/2024

“Oh, how you shine with your heart full of moonlight and your soul full of stars.” —Unknown

11/15/24 Full moon over Columbia, MD

12/11/2024

Took this photo yesterday at 7:57 am on the way to Fair Hill for the NICA Eastern Regional mountain bike races so my middle son could race. It’s the historic Chesapeake City Bridge, Cecil County, MD- built in 1948 this arch bridge is the only bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal within MD.

10/11/2024

Tonight’s sunset 🧡💛♥️💕