"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~Anne Bradstreet

"Of winter's lifeless world each tree

Now seems a perfect part;

Yet each one holds summer's secret

Deep down within its heart.
Charles G. Stater

"The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn."~Hartley Coleridge

Happy New Year!

worship

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator." Ghandi

...saw this on our way to the library tonight. The girls and I got out of the car to try and get a shot.

The last dandelion

lingers

perseveres

outlives

weathers

fades

withers

weakens

surrenders