Defying Description

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Henri Frederic Amiel

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” 

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Traffic Jam

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, 

merely lengthens the conversation.  

~Elizabeth Drew

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Laurence Olivier

Rainy Day in Chandler

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Thomas Guthrie

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.  ~Robert Brault

The Plot

 Some little truth I wish

And seek in depths abiding

A profoundly buried answer

In everlasting hiding.

Perhaps in quiet moment

I could gain in plain reflection

That simply given knowledge gift,

 The guide which shows perfection.

Together Mother Nature

Combined perhaps a lot

With Mr. Circumstance and

Contrived this mixed up little plot.

Bad luck, a snare it was 

I could even think to say,

Refusing unwisely to go cheerily

About my merry way.

Insistently my plan was foiled

A fatal trap was set,

And caught so unwarily,

I firmly said, "Not that!"

Then announcing freedom

A  little voice instead

In ultimate betrayal

Agreed and bowed its head.

Buzzard's Roost- *count'em. 

“It can hardly be a coincidence 
that no language on earth has 
ever produced the expression,
'As pretty as an airport.” 


― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

My Decorator, My Adviser

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. 

~Mark Twain

Buzzards:*(nine)