Monthly Archives: May 2015

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” … Continue reading →

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, … Continue reading →

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. — Henry Ward Beecher