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Springtime weather is fading away,
Summer has arrived in Michigan.
Ninety degree temperatures here the past few days.
It has been a busy month on Riverwood Drive.
Landscape replanting, new gardens planned,
flowers in bloom, trees leafed out.
Such a gorgeous time of the year,
I have loved watching things "come alive!"
My surgery is a thing of the past and my hand is improving daily.
The pin removal will be next week. Hopefully I will regain full usage.
Thank you for your caring, prayers and for staying in touch.
"Today I will do what others won't,
so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't."
Jerry Rice
Contributed from Amy of
A Poppy Popping
Although I was unable to do my usual these past weeks,
I was able to spend time reading some good books,
collecting blog quotes, snapping many garden pictures,
anticipating prom and graduation for Tyler and Amanda,
organizing and planting my cutting garden,
and being a sergeant and supervisor of Jack
(he hasn't liked that very much)
So this post is filled with a mixture
of flowers, grandchildren and
some words of wisdom
I have found from some of you.
Garden House Pansies
"We must never forget that freedom is never free.
It is the most costly thing in the world.
Freedom is never paid in lump sum.
Installments come due in every generation.
All any of us can do is offer the generations that follow a chance for freedom.
President Ronald W. Reagan
contributed
from Theresa of
Corners of my World
Falling in Love is Like Owning a Dog
Taylor Mali
First of all, it’s a big responsibility, especially in a city like New York.
So think long and hard before deciding on love.
On the other hand, love gives you a sense of security:
when you’re walking down the street late at night
and you have a leash on love
ain’t no one going to mess with you.
Love doesn’t like being left alone for long.
But come home and love is always happy to see you.
It may break a few things accidentally in its passion for life,
but you can never be mad at love for long.
Is love good all the time?
No! No! Love can be bad. Bad, love, bad! Very bad love.
Sometimes love just wants to go for a nice long walk.
It runs you around the block and leaves you panting.
It pulls you in several different directions at once,
or winds around and around you
until you’re all wound up and can’t move.
But love makes you meet people wherever you go.
People who have nothing in common but love
stop and talk to each other on the street.
Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you
and never stops.
Retired Knitter's son was recently married.
Her nieces read this to the guests.
You will find the retired knitter here.
Snickers
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world,
in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning
and the wellspring of creativity.
Jean Houston
Found from Nancy
Grandson Tyler and Friend, Prom 2012
Hibiscus
The mountains are calling, and I must go.
John Muir
Cutting Garden Beginnings
Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe's "Faust"
Not my credo, but I love it
and try to live it.
Quote was found on
Japanese Iris
"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be part of ..."
Penny
These words were from Penny who is a new granny.
You'll find her at
Granddaughter Amanda and Friend, Prom 2012
On Mothers
"I've been a mad, bad mother as well as a good mother,
I've been a caring mother and a forgetful mother.
But the wonderful thing is that in the end I've got these wonderful children."
Vanessa Redgrave
I found Redgrave's quote on a reflection Joan Anderson did on being a mother.
Have you read JA's books;
Unfinished Marriage
A Year By The Sea
A Walk on the Beach
The Second Journey
They are very good, she makes me think and I love her authenticity!
I met her at a seminar a few years ago.
In closing, look at these cuties . . .
photo by Andrea, Rural Revival
. . . upon my skin, bears no less healing,
than the love of a friend.
Andrea
I have saved many more May blog quotes, thoughts and reflections,
but the day is getting away from me.
So before I totally lose you
I will close and save the rest for another time.
In closing, please visit this site
and view the amazing video from the Girl Twin.
