Ozark Oddments: A lovely, lovely day

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

A lovely, lovely day

Easter was a very nearly perfect day. In the afternoon the cat and I went for a walk in the woods...

and saw interesting things...

A turtle deciding to unbury itself after a winter underground.

Bugs walking on the water in the wet-weather spring..

And we came back to the house and she helped me take a few pictures of flowers in the yard..

Both planted on purpose......

and the wild variety...

And plain ordinary weeds. I loved the ant busy amongst the pollen...

And a big Easter bunny...

munching on the short sweet grass in the middle of the driveway, probably with a nest of new babies likely near by

And then I went inside and I began working on enchiladas for dinner ( I know, not exactly traditional fare for the Easter meal!).

and she took a nap.

2 comments:

Paula said...: Enchiladas are good any day. You do have a helpful cat especially the nap part.; 4:47 AM
Oklahoma Granny said...: Aren't you glad Spring is here? Enchiladas sound good to me. We had hamburgers and hot dogs for Easter dinner.; 10:51 AM

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Thoughts to ponder

Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"