Dec 31, 2011
Dec 23, 2011
frosted
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale
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Dec 18, 2011
mirror on the wall
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton
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Dec 12, 2011
Dec 6, 2011
Nov 27, 2011
Nov 26, 2011
gingersnaps
Recipe:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening (butter can be substituted)
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
2 eggs, beaten
4 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/4 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 tsp ginger
1 1/2 tsp cloves
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Additional sugar
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar until light colored and fluffy.
Beat in molasses and eggs; set aside. In another large bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda,
ginger, cloves and cinnamon. Blend thoroughly with wire whisk. Gradually mix flour mixture into
creamed ingredients until dough is blended and smooth. Roll dough into 1 1/2 in, balls.
Dip tops in sugar; place 2 1/2 in. apart on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for
11 minutes. Do not overbake. Cool on wire rack. Store in tightly covered container to maintain
softness. Yields 3 dozen. Enjoy with a cold glass of milk!
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Nov 24, 2011
Nov 18, 2011
gerbera daisy
God has sown his name on the heavens in glittering stars;
but on earth he planteth his name by tender flowers.
~Jean Paul Richter
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Nov 16, 2011
Nov 15, 2011
Nov 13, 2011
Golden light
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least,
but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. ~Hal Borland
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Nov 11, 2011
Nov 7, 2011
sunrise
Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
~Edwin Markham
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Nov 5, 2011
kitty
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult.
It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ~Bill Dana
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Oct 26, 2011
weeds
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson
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Oct 25, 2011
frost
For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die? ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
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Oct 22, 2011
wild berries
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown
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Oct 16, 2011
mums the word
Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we
get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts. ~Dodinsky
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Oct 14, 2011
Golden light
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~Edwin Way Teale
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Oct 13, 2011
Oct 4, 2011
Oct 2, 2011
mums!
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
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sunflowers
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.”
~ Helen Keller
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Sep 18, 2011
Red Rose
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Morning Dew
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
~Samuel Daniel
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