Beech Leaves - Canon Rebel EOS 50D

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

Patriotic Barn - Canon EOS 50D

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” - Carl Bard

Winter Berries - Canon EOS 50d

 

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” - Seneca

Barn Windows - Canon EOS 50 D

 

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." ~ J.M. Barnie

Brown Barn - Canon EOS 50 D

 

"At the blueness of the sky and the warmth of the summer we remember them." ~ Rabbis Sylvan Kamens and Jack Riemer

Lighthouse Sunset - Canon EOS 50D

 

Summer's End - John Prine

 

Well you never know how far from home you're feelin'
Until you've watched the shadows cross the ceilin'
Well I don't know, but I can see it snowin'
In your car the windows are wide open

 

Just come on home
Come on home
No you don't have to
Be alone
Just come on home

TJ and the Gull - Canon EOS 50D

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattie

I am so thankful for this young man every day. 

Summer Girls - Canon EOS 50D

"I'm beautifully broken, perfectly imperfect, beautiful in my flaws. All together, I am a beautiful disaster."

Abandoned Farm - Canon EOS 50D

 

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

Fire Escape - Canon EOS 50D

 

"No winter lasts forever, no spring skips it's turn" - Hal Borland

Winter Sunflower - Canon Rebel T 3

“Nothing burns like the cold.”  - George R.R. Martin

Boat Reflections - Canon Rebel T3

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." -  Walt Whitman

Fall reflections - Canon Rebel T3

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” -  Joe L. Wheeler

GG's Summer Girls

"Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild" ~Welsh Proverb

Towards the Heavens - Canon Rebel T3i

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”  - Jodi Picoult

A Walk in the Woods - Canon Rebel T3i

 

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.” - Nicole Sobon

River Reflections - Canon Rebel T3i

 

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” - Steve Maraboli

Lonely Christmas - Canon Rebel T3

 

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” -  Mother Teresa

Spool Still Life Study - Canon Rebel T3

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”  - Virginia Woolf

Fall Fence - Canon Rebel T3

"You will never be alone, you hear so deep a sound when autumn comes." — William Stafford 

River Reflections - Canon Rebel T3

 

“With inner peace, you are undisturbed by outside turbulence.” - Lailah Gifty Akita

Light House Waves - Canon Rebel T3

 

“A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly." - Matshona Dhliwayo

Bridge Reflections - Canon Rebel T3

 

“Life is defined by time and seasons.” - Lailah Gifty Akita

On the Line - Canon Rebel T3

"There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go." – Jessica Hatchigan

Sunflower - Canon Rebel T3

"I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on."

 - Ashley Rickards

Skyline at Sunset - Canon Rebel T3

 

"The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not." - Unknown

Sailboat at Sunset - Canon Rebel T3

 

“A person who deserves my loyalty receives it..” – Joyce Maynard 

Bean at Night - Canon Rebel T3

 

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” – Confucius 

On the Water

 

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” - Diane Arbus

River Reflections

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear." Alfred Eisenstaedt