In the bleak midwinter

"In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago."

Christina Rossetti

rise up

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Splendor in the Grass

Sometimes you can find the most amazing things in the grass... especially if your lawn is not really a lawn at all, but simply a field that's been mowed, and mowed, and mowed... ;)