“When you know that something’s going to happen, you’ll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren’t signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You’ll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I’m not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won’t want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.”
~ David Eddings in Belgarath the Sorcerer

Photo taken on July 4, 2012 around the Columbia River Gorge outside of Portland, Oregon. 

“He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.”
~ Laura Adams Armer in Waterless Mountain

Photo taken on April 1, 2015 in Piedmont Park, Atlanta Georgia.

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more…”
~ Lord George Gordon Byron

Photo taken on May 10, 2014 at the Pier on St. Simons Island.

“Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline.
The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.”
~Carl Sandburg

Photo taken on March 28, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia