Harvest

“Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love,This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.”

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Chatsworth NJ

Seaside Heights Forever!

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

 

A William Shakespeare quote for Seaside? Yes, that is what made Seaside wonderful, all the irony and contrasts.

Summer2012 Seaside Heights

The Mushroom

Caterpillar: By the way, I have a few more helpful hints. One side will make you grow taller...
Alice : One side of what?
Caterpillar : ...and the other side will make you grow shorter.
Alice : The other side of what?
Caterpillar : THE MUSHROOM, OF COURSE! 

 Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

 Amanita muscaria Manchester, NJ

Aged

“Age is like love, it cannot be hid”

Thomas Dekker

Durand Pond, Freehold Twp, NJ

I turned 49 on Sunday, hence the quote!

This leaf was suspended by a spider web.

Summer Joy

“Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood”

Benjamin Franklin

Washington Square Park

NYC

POWER/POLITICS

“Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”

Friedrich Nietzsche 

 Manchester, NJ Summer Thunderstorm approaching quickly!

Illusion

“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”

Chamfort

Columbus Auction, NJ

 

Wise

“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”

Paulo Coelho

Leisure Village West

Visit from Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge

Barred Owl

Gazing

“A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line”

Mark Twain

Bayville, NJ

Free to Bee

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”

Tom Robbins 

Leisure Village West, Manchester, Nj

This is one of the carpenter bees terrorizing my house and dog

Summer Love

"All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is just the sun in the sky. And the hope of a summer to come with the meaning of love. "

Henri Frederic Amiel 

Seaside Heights

Creativity

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

J.F.K

Rt. 70 Manchester

just before the cranberry bogs begin, somebody turned this cut tree into art!

Unfolding

“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.”

Margaret Fuller

Pemberton, NJ

Pine Barrens

Life from Death

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” 

Edgar Allan Poe 

Lake Horicon, Lakehurst, NJ

 

Lust Full

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full”

William Shakespeare

Manchester, NJ  

First Magnolia blooms of 2012 

Tamed

“Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

from the Little Prince 

Island Beach State Park, New Jersey

Reach Out

“Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.”

Kent Nerburn

Jackson, NJ

Cutting Deep

" When you are in love and you get hurt, it’s like a cut... it will heal, but there will always be a scar "

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Collier Mills Wildlife Refuge

New Jersey