Thoughtful Friday 14

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"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."  –Mary Kay Ash

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Thoughtful Friday 11

Pumpkins

"Listen!  The wind
is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!" –
Humbert Wolfe

Thoughtful Friday 11


“Our life is frittered away by detail … simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau

Photo taken 9/30/2008, Ebey's Landing, Whidbey Island Washington
The rocks were already stacked.
By Chris Tindall

Thoughtful Friday 10

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“You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.”

–Barbara Hall

Thoughtful Friday 8

Pikeplacemarketproduce

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot?  Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. ~Astrid Alauda

Thoughtful Friday 7

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"Softly the evening came.  The sun from the western horizon, Like a magician, extended his golden want o'er the landscape;     Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest       Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thoughtful Friday 6

The Weed Patch : Thoughtful Friday #6

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. 
– Henry David Thoreau

[Note: I took this photo at the family reunion, held on the farm we got married on in Toppenish, Washington.  This photo was taken August 2, 2008]