You Get What You Pay For

An oldie but goodie. While shopping yesterday, I passed a short, blue dress hanging enticingly in a store front window. Beckoning. Reblogging for all to enjoy…one of my favorite stories.

WPC – Solitude

“The soul that sees beauty, may sometimes walk alone.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/solitude/      

Daily Post…Framed by Nature

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of

Daily Post “Curve”

“In life as in art, the beautiful moves in curves…” Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton   https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/curve/  

WPC “Half-Light”

Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/half-light/

WPC “Time”

  “So come with me where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/time/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Purple flowers

Although not a violet, the lovely shade of color enticed me…

Weekly Photo Challenge – Careful

A red sky at night sailor’s delight. A red sky morning, sailor’s warning.    Scooping up a tiny salamander with care.   Careful! I just got stitches. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/careful/

Autumn in Connecticut (Extra-Ordinary)

The softened light, the veiling haze, The calm repose of autumn days, Steal gently o’er the troubled breast, Soothing life’s weary cares to rest. ~Phebe A. Holder, “A Song of October,” in The Queries Magazine, October 1890 https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/extraordinary/

One Word Challenge – “Up Close”

“Each sunshine-moment twinkles by A white-winged, wandering butterfly…” ~W.T., “Honeymoon Cottage,” Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts, 1862 June 28th “Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”  Hans Christian Andersen “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,