Sun pours down like honey

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. - Joseph Joubert

You've come at last! 

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E.L. Doctorow 

A foggy evening following a chilly day of rain. Thoreau had his Walden, I have what are called the twin lakes by my city's high school. ...

"...I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved.  But don't get a swelled head over it.  A c...

Budding magnolia through my rain tapped car's roof window.

Not the global pond but the one here  by the high school, the little library a bright glow across the water.

If an artist doesn't separate himself or herself from the mainstream no work will get done. - Maxine Kumin

Love these frogs! I could move into a greenhouse and bloom all winter Dig those pouty lips, this green man image has more sulky than mythic ...

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.        -  Lao Tzu

"Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its sp...

Go beyond what's comfortable. - Stanley Tucci's college acting coach

My chapbook will be out in early summer (it is about to snow yet again making the words "early summer" so beautiful) with Finishin...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh 

So know this - if you love your library, use your library.  Support libraries in your words and deeds.  If you are fortunate enough to ...

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. - Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

Note the dog picture thrown in as he looked so cute after being dried off after snow and has little to do with taffy. On a family list to tr...

The snow already falling here, blizzard on its way. Stay cozy and safe, everyone!

The birthday of my wonderful mother who is missed every day - and she married a Scot - perfect. Hope you are all having a great Burns night....