Fleeting Iced Shadows - Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana

“The present is the ever moving shadow 

     that divides yesterday from tomorrow. 

  In that lies hope.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

A Different Angle - Missoula, Montana

"I stand in the hallway and listen to her and Etta laughing and realize that maybe my daughter did miss out on a big family life as an only child, but what she got instead was just as valuable.  
How many girls have an honorary aunt like Iva Lou?

Sometimes what we don't get in life makes way for something even better."

-from Milk Glass Moon, A Big Stone Gap Novel, by Adriana Trigiani, p. 162
(Did I mention previously that her series are delightfully addicting?)

Pathless Woods - Grant Creek, Missoula, Montana

Here's another tea tag saying to go with your cuppa (& I must say, it's a serendipitous match for this photo): 

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods."

 -Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Winter Contrasts - Grant Creek, Missoula, Montana

Being sick is NOT my cup of tea! But these past 5 days, I've been thankful for tasty tea while fighting off some annoying bleh-ness with sleep, homeopathy, and herbal concoctions (Throat Coat and Gypsy Cold Care teas - yum and good!). 
My main reading in between naps has been the fine print quotes on the tea bag tags, so that's what you get for deep pondering the rest of this week. That and some winter photos that need to get posted before they expire due to lovely sunshine melting every crusted snowflake in sight! 

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
 - Lao Tzu (6th century BC)

Still Growing - Missoula, Montana

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. 
- Aeschylus, as quoted on my Throat Coat tea bag tab

Big Or Little - Clark Fork River, Missoula, Montana

“A man is about as big as

 the things that make him angry.”
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Somewhere Time and Being - Paradise, Montana

"...Because in afternoon sunshine, time's there...
So when it's taken, with our words and seeing,
Let these words stand: now that was time and being.”

--From "Always Somewhere" by David Rothman

Somewhere Everywhere - Paradise, Montana

"...Somewhere always is an everywhere
Where the mountains and the snow grow down
In time, until, in winter's deep sleep, time
Grows balanced, and in quiet you can climb
A mountain and the snow no one can own..."

--From "Always Somewhere" by David Rothman