“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
Don’t ask me why, but I love the way that bare trees look against the backdrop of a clear blue sky.
The 7 am view from my office. No quote can do it justice.
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll
Storm King Mountain
Dunderberg Mountain
Wheelabrator Westchester
Iona Island
Bear Mt. Inn
Bear Mt.
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
-Thoreau
Hiking on New Years Day.
White flakes falling fast,
Pristine wonder on broken
Limb, savor the peace,
Stillness echoing fluffy
Perfection, my heart is free
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about dancing in the snow.”
“When sow falls, nature listens.”
-Antoinette van Kleeff
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky-unbidden-and seems like a thing of wonder.”
-Susan Orlean
My dog Jase playing in the middle of a snowstorm. We thought at first he wouldn’t want to stay outside, but he loved it!!!!
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
-J. B. Priestley
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
― Henry David Thoreau
I love the morning. Without a doubt it is the best time of every day. The peace, quiet and possibility sets the tone for what lies ahead. The success of every day is what you make it.
The Zen Hiker 