"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." ~Rumi ...
Words to Live by
Autumnal Fruit
"Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." ~Walt Whitman ...
Goodpasture Bridge
"Love is the bridge between you and everything." ~Rumi I have come to love and appreciate the Goodpasture Bridge as a local landmark and still-standing part of McKenzie River history. Built in 1938, the bridge is named for a local pioneer, Benjamin Franklin Goodpasture, who purchased the land to plant the hazelnut orchards that are still being farmed here today. The parcel included a ferry ...
Full Woodshed
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." ~Henry David Thoreau ...
Dahlias
"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias." ~William Allen White. ...
An Agricultural Act
"Eating is an agricultural act." ~Wendell Berry ...
Pines
"Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light, -- to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success." ~Henry David Thoreau, Chesuncook 1858 ...
Golden Sunflowers
"We're all golden sunflowers inside." ~Allen Ginsberg ...
Love is the Flower
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." ~John Lennon ...
Summer Solstice
"and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birthday of life and of love and wings: and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth" ~e.e. cummings ...