Nearest to the soul

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come
nearest to the soul of another.
--George McDonald.

Faith and hope

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

--Saint Thomas Aquinas 

Autumn

I saw old autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence.
-- Thomas Hood

The Taming of the Shrew

To see more pictures of my daughter as "the Shrew", click here.

The harvest

“With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.”

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Blooming alone

"T'is the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone."
  --Thomas Moore, 1779-1852, The Last Rose of Summer.

Time

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson