River Weeds And Wildness Yet - Turah, Montana

"What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." - from Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Love-ly Water - Missoula, Montana

"High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water." - Mark Twain

Shaping Water - Missoula, Montana

"When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light." - Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

March Madness - East Missoula, Montana

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." - from Great Expectations (ch. 54) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Violet Breath - Missoula, Montana

"You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets." -  L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)

Long Shadows And Light - Bonner, Montana

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Amethyst Souls - Missoula, Montana

"Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?" - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

May your precious soul be redemptively blessed this Easter Day.