The Phoenix

“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.”

Miguel de Cervantes

Seaside Park, NJ 

The Mirror

“In wise love each defines the secret self of the other, and refusing to believe in the mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover or the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life; for love also creates the Mask.”

William Butler Yeats

Historic Smithville, NJ

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