A great many men will strive to achieve much,
It is the wise man who will strive to achieve a little.
Bc Hannold
Spring Forth
Spring forth
She brushed her hand across the water,
And bright blue springs,
Came gushing up to meet her.
She smiled,
And the light went dancing among the ripples,
Singing a giggling harmony.
She laughed,
And all about a chorus of blossoms erupted,
In a deafening crescendo of color.
As she exhaled,
The forest burst forth,
In a rippling wave of fresh green buds.
As she took repose,
A carpet of fresh green grass,
Rose to meet her.
As she sat among the trees,
The air began to fill with twittering of birds,
As the fawns and otters came to call.
She stretched out her arms,
Seducing the sun from the shadows,
Tickling the warmth to greet her.
She inhaled the fragrant air,
And slept,
For her work was done.
Bc Hannold
Thought For The Day Feb 8 2015
An ounce of willingness is worth a pound of brains.
or
All the brains in the world wont do you any good if you just sit on them.
Pun intended
Thought for today Feb 4, 2015
It is good to have photography in your heart.
It is imperative to have photography in your feet!
Happy Thanksgiving – A Great Day To Be Grateful
Happy Thanksgiving. A great day to share with family and friends. Today I am grateful for natural beauty where I live. To celebrate that I’m sharing a couple of photos I entered in the Leconte Photographic Society competition last month. It is a great camera club with some awesome creative talent. So here are last month’s entries.
I’ll share one of my favorite prayers to celebrate this day. I am grateful for this prayer. If I can remember it, it will bring me through any situation I find myself in.
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.
This is the second photo I entered. This scene can pretty much be shot any time of year, and is always available.
So I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.
That Perfect Friend
That perfect Friend
I have a friend, Like no other,
Who is always there for me.
Quietly she awaits the time,
That she can be for me.
For her I have no faults,
No feet rooted in clay,
She always stands beside me,
To help me bear the day.
When all the friends have left,
And family’s gone home too,
She remains behind,
And shares a heart that’s true.
Patiently she waits,
As I struggle about the world,
Gazing with eyes that do not judge,
She smiles with a heart that knows only love.
To know this perfect friendship,
Where one can only give,
Is to know a glimpse of heaven
And the true meaning of love.
Bc Hannold
Mowing
Mowing
I set upon that summer weekly ritual,
Mounting my steed, roaring to life with a sputter of protest.
Whirling steel blades reducing my lawn to the earthy smell of fresh cut grass.
Mindlessly, I repeat the pattern of rectangles, circles and swirls,
Enjoying the overcast sky, restraining the brutality of the summer sun.
A spit of rain, splashes, and is gone. Ah, a relieving oasis on this summer morn.
Around the house, and down the yard toward the garden,
With purple martins clearing the way , as mustangs escorting bombers over Germany.
Swooping and diving, a midair dance clearing the way of insects stirred by the whirling blades.
Bouncing and bounding over the lawn, a somber moment as I trim around Izzy,
My faithful companion for 15 years, missing the fun times and unconditional love.
A bridge between my first life and this one, wondering if she is playing with Nadine,
Who left this earth for a better place. A bridge between Nadine and Lois my current wife.
And I am reminded of all the wonders that I have received, and joy returns with a thankful heart at all I have today.
Thought For Today Jan 28 2011
Ya know, when I was a kid, all the stuff I found GROSS about old farts, I now find perfectly acceptable.
Go figure.
Thought for today Jan 26 2011
There may be an excuse for not succeeding….
But lack of trying is not one of them.
Thought for today Jan 25 2011
My hope is that I can learn how to live before I die.