snowy woods.

sometimes, instead of bemoaning the cold and fighting the icy path, a girl's best option is to choose joy: to open her eyes to the beauty, grab her fella's arm and slide along with a smile.

snow.

when snow falls, nature listens.

{antoinette van kleeff}

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shoes on a wire and the evening sky.

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group walk on new year's day...a FITting way to start off 2013. ha! i'm so punny.

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sky view: portland, from departure bar at the nines

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so. a six mile hike is a sure-fire way to discover just how out of shape one is. apparently runs on flat land do not prepare one for the ups and downs of canyon hikes.

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if you look closely, i swear it looks like a cartoon crocodile!

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the view from my hotel room for bar week...not that i was really in the hotel room to look at it.

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road trip, day three...finally made it to the home state :)

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fashion island: land of super skinny, totally trendy people. {i'm just here for the palm trees and sunshine.}

apple.

why not upset the apple cart?  if you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
{frank howard clark}

milky way.

silently one by one,
in the infinite meadows of heaven,
blossomed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels."
{longfellow (evangeline)}

flag.

a thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the nation that sets it forth.
{henry ward beecher}

fire (& ice)

some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
from what I've tasted of desire
i hold with those who favor fire.
{robert frost}

a point.

i was on acid and i looked at the trees and i realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to a point.  i thought, 'oh! everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'
{harry nilsson}

dreams.

far away there in the [moonlight], are my highest aspirations.  i may not reach them, but i can look up at them and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
{louisa may alcott}

light.

experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
{louis-ferdinand celine}