Day 155 – Fair and sweet
“Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?” ~ Julia Caroline Dorr
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“Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?” ~ Julia Caroline Dorr
“The white flower of a blameless life.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson What is this pretty little thing Mum?
“Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.” ~ E. B. White These two definitely need a […]
“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.” ~ John James Ingalls
This is Holywell Ford in Oxford. It is part of Madgalene college. I believe now that it is student accommodation but years ago it was a family home and where my Father grew up as […]
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.” ~ Rumi
“My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches – with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.” ~ Angelo Pellegrini
“The landscape affects the human psyche – the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations – like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and […]
“With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow