#163: Wild flowers
‘Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…’ – Susan Polis Schutz
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#162: Books
‘So many books, so little time.’ – Frank Zappa
#161: Badger
‘No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season’ – Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows An old photo of some of the best wallpaper that I have ever seen!
#160: Sticky bun
‘Baking is like washing–the results are equally temporary.’ – Patricia Briggs, Raven’s Shadow A photo from my 2013 baking challenge. I was a better photographer than I was a baker, but I really should bake these again…
#159: Meadow
‘Only with kisses and red poppies can I love you’ – Pablo Neruda
#158: Cathedral
‘It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire’ – C.S. Lewis Christ Church College, Oxford
#157: Ugly Duckling
‘His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan.’ – Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling
#156: Under the tree
‘I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?… Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.’ – Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
#155: The Great Hall
‘It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting…The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight…It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great… Continue reading #155: The Great Hall
#154: Eager
‘Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.’ – Samuel Johnson Photograph of a page of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition, published 1766