Today is my birthday!🎂Words cannot express how grateful I am to have made it another year. 🥰 I feel so incredibly blessed to be living a happy, fulfilling life alongside my beautiful family and friends.🙏🙏🙏💖🌸 I wish everyone a wonderful Thursday. 🙏😊💜
This is my first painting since my hospital stay and my third attempt at doing a landscape painting. I need more practice.😅
Good or bad, I promised my friends I would overcome my fear and post all of my paintings, regardless of my opinion.
#art
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
📷 Plum Island Beach - Newburyport, Massachusetts 🌊
#photography
#quotes
#newengland
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir 🍃
📷 The calming sounds of nature from a stream near the Merrimack River.🎶🎵🌿
#photography
#newengland
#outdoors
My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.
-Brenda Schoepp 🚜
I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the hardworking farmers who have dedicated their lives
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
- Henry David Thoreau
📷 Eastern Gladiolus growing on a farm in New England. 🌸🌺
#photography
#quotes
#nature
Kind hearts are the gardens
Kind thoughts are the roots
Kind words are the flowers
Kind deeds are the fruits
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds
Fill it with sunshine
Kind words, and kind deeds.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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#kindness
#quotes
#poetry
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
📷 New Hampshire 🍃
#photography
#quotesoftheday
#july
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
- Herman Hesse
📷 A nature walk🍃
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#Quotes
After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
📷 Flowering Dogwood 🤍
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#Quotes
#Spring
#Trees
The lovely flowers embarrass me,
They make me regret I am not a bee.
- Emily Dickinson 🐝
📷 Honey bee on a vibrant pink Zinnia. 🌸
#photography
#quotes
#nature
Today, I decided to explore a nearby pathway that gracefully followed the course of a peaceful river. The paths were easy for me to handle, and I was able to grab a few photographs along the way. Nature is a beautiful motivator! 💚
📷 Merrimack River 🍃🌿
#NewEngland
Monday Morning Blues?
Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?
- Kanika Saxena🌼
Wishing you a bright and joyful Monday! 🙏💛
#MondayMotivation
#Quotes
#Photography
#Flowers
Along the river's summer walk,
The withered tufts of asters nod;
And trembles on its arid stalk
the hoar plum of the golden-rod.
- John Greenleaf Whittier 🍃
The imagery evokes the rhythm of time, the beauty of changing seasons, and the ephemeral nature of life.
📷 Merrimack
There's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. 🌊
- Sarah Kay
📷 Early morning sun glitter. ☀️✨
#HelloJuly
#Summer
#Photography
#Quotes
That was her magic—she could still see the sunset, even on the darkest days. – Atticus
📷 A pretty sunset photo taken earlier today. 🩷🧡
#Photography
#Sunsets
I have some great news to share regarding my health! 😄 The new meds are working and my inflammation in the spine has significantly decreased!! Just a few moments ago, I was able to stand on my own, albeit with some instability in my feet. My doctors believe that I am on the cusp
Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.🌹
— Alex Flinn
Though time may fade outer beauty, the radiance of inner beauty remains eternal, forever shining from within.🤍💫
#RoseWednesday
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#Quotes
#Inspiration
#Photography
#Flowers
Heading off to my PT appointment to rehab my knee. 💪 If you live near Boston, I hope you can get outside and enjoy what's left of this beautiful spring day! ☀️🌷💕 Please excuse my car, it's due for a wash.😂
#HappySpring
#NewPic
Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.
- Emma Smith
Embrace both the calm and turbulent moments in life, as they are all part of the journey.
📷 Merrimack River 💚🍃🌿
#photography
#quotes
#reading
That beautiful season the summer!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light
And the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
📷 Merrimack River
#photography
#quotes
#poetry
#newengland
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. 💕
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
📷 Low tide -
Newburyport, Massachusetts 🌊
#NewEngland
#Photography
#Travel
He that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose – Anne Brontë, The Narrow Way
📷 Rose Garden - Boston, MA from the year 2017
I wish everyone a lovely Wednesday! 🙏🩷
#Photography
#Quotes
#RoseWednesday
#HappyWednesday
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
- Nicholas Sparks 🤍
📷 Salem Willows
Wishing you a happy and wonderful Tuesday!🙏
#Photography
#Quotes
#NewEngland
I meant to do my work today
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree
And a butterfly flitted across the field
And all the leaves were calling me.
- Richard Le Gallienne
📷 Apples growing on a farm in New England. 🍎
#photography
#poetry
#quotes
A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.
– Maya Angelou
📷 Merrimack River
#InternationalWomensDay
#quotes
Good morning!☀️💖 I decided to share that I have been hospitalized for several days with a condition called Myelopathy and need assistance to walk. My doctors are running countless tests and working feverishly to find the cause. I have lots of faith in my medical team. 🙏🛐
Happy Mother's Day to all the incredible moms out there! 💐 I appreciate the love, strength, and dedication you show every day.
Thank you for all that you do! 🩷
#MothersDay
#MothersDay2024
Another painting challenge! I was assigned a landscape on 8x8 inches with a single no. 4 paintbrush. Time: 20 minutes. Focus: Green
I was unable to complete the water, bushes, and tree work in time. As a result, I ended up with some odd shadow marks under the tree.😅
#art
May the leprechauns
be near you,
To spread luck along
your way.
And may all the
Irish angels,
Smile upon you
St. Patrick's Day.
- Irish Blessings 💚
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️☘️☘️
#Irish
#StPaddysDay
#StPatrick
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
- Indra Devi
📷 April 2024💙
#Photography
#Nature
#Travel
#Calm
Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.
- J. R. R. Tolkien 🤍
It encourages us to appreciate the beauty beyond our concerns and find peace in the vastness of the universe.
📷 A treeline view (June 2021) 🌸
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#quotes
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
— Alice Walker
📷 Lake Quannapowitt in mid-March
I hope everyone has a wonderful Tuesday! 🙏🤍🦋🌷
#Trees
#Quotes
#Nature
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
📷 Portland, Maine - May 2019
#streetphotography
#quotes
#cycling
Not only is it summer solstice, there is a full moon. May love surround you like sunshine on a sunny day.☀️
- William Shakespeare
Embrace the warmth of the summer solstice and let the sun's rays fill your days with joy. 😊💛
#welcomesummer
#summersolstice
#photography
#quotes
Study nature, love nature, and stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
📷 A beautiful farm in New England. 🍃
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#quotes
Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
- Walt Whitman
📷 Crimson Cloud Hawthorn on a cloudy day.🌺
#photography
#nature
#quotes
#poetry
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
📷 A blueberry bush on New England farm.
#photography
#nature
#food
#farming
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
- Herb Caen 🏒
📷 A view from the rooftop - Portland, Maine
#photography
#quotes
#hockey
#travel
Spring is when
flowers beckon
in every corner
of your heart.🩷
- Bhuwan Thapaliya
Spring officially starts at 11:06 pm. I'm not waiting any longer, so happy first day of spring!😂🌷
📷 1st spring bloom sighting of the season!🥰
#Spring2024
#Flowers
#NewEngland
#SpringBlooms
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
- T.S. Eliot
📷 Newburyport Public Library (May 2024) 📚
#Quotes
#Photography
#Reading
#Spring
Every lake desires a cloud - Mark Strand
📷 Photo is from last year
Sending you all positive vibes for a day filled with joy and happiness! 💙🤍
#photography
#happythursday
#newengland
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
📷 An anthophile on a quest to gather wildflowers.🌸 💐🌼🌺
#photography
#quotes
#nature
There is only one way to understand a lonely bench in a park: Sit on it; watch whatever it is watching; listen whatever it is listening to! Sit in spring, sit in winter, sit in summer! To understand something deeply, you need to live its life!
- Mehmet Murat ildan
#Sunday
#Quote
Oh my sweet Saturday,
I have been waiting for you for six long days.
- Charmaine J Forde
📷 A Cherry Blosson Tree in Boston, Massachusetts 🌸
#photography
#spring
#quotes
#newengland
May the river of love always flow from its own lap.
- Suman Pokhrel
📷 Aberjona River - Winchester, MA (2019)
I hope everyone has a lovely day. 🙏🦋 It’s snowing here. ❄️❄️❄️
#photography
#newengland
#travel
Sunday is a time when you sit back and reflect on all the blessings that you have received. Smile at all the good things that you are enjoying. 🍃🌿
- Sera Train
📷 Merrimack River
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#nature
#quotes
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
- Mahatma Gandhi
📷 Visiting my friends at the farm. 🐑
#photography
#nature
#animals
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by
As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky.
- William C. Bryant
📷 Plum Island Beach ☀️🌊
#photography
#quotes
#poetry
#newengland
Hydrangeas represent a bountiful overflow of heartfelt emotions, deep gratitude, and a hint of self-assuredness.🌸🌸
📷 Sunday shopping. I love seeing hydrangeas! 😊🩷
#HappySunday
#Flowers
#SundayVibes
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Yesterday I was transferred to a new hospital and they gave me a room with a window! 😁 It makes a huge difference to my well-being to see natural light again!!! 🥰☀️I also get menus here so I can choose healthier food options. 💪
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
– Winnie the Pooh 🍯
📷 A local apiary. 🐝🐝🐝
#photography
#bees
#nature
#food
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
📷 Long Wharf - Boston, Massachusetts🍃🌿
#photograghy
#quotes
#citylife
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.
- William W. Purkey 🩷
Wishing you all a bright and beautiful Wednesday! 🙏
#RoseWednesday
#Flowers
#Nature