New Leaves, Sunshine - Missoula, Montana

"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new a day with no mistakes in it?" 

- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

New Leaves, Fresh Hopes - Missoula, Montana

"Write it on your heart

that every day is the 

best day in the year...

This new day is too dear,

with its hopes and invitations,

to waste a moment on the yesterdays."
-  from Write It On Your Heart by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

New Leaves - Missoula, Montana

"The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose." - Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)

Beauty In Brick - Missoula, Montana

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune." - Plutarch (46-120)

May you pause to see the beauty amidst the sweat equity of your daily becoming.

Stonefly Molt - Missoula, Montana

"Stoneflies aren’t pretty… until the trout start eating them with abandon..."  - Tom Chandler

Distant Bridge - Missoula, Montana

"Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow." 

- Craig D. Lounsbrough, from 

Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Fresh Green Lilac Leaves - Missoula, Montana

"...And to you, what can these mean now:...the evidence unfolding
like a flower, the green song
in the green leaves, the presence
of the sky with its goblet of freshness?..."

- from With Quevedo, In Springtime by Pablo Neruda