Create the beautiful blossom not the prickly, thorny thistle. Have a wonderful day!

Sabino Canyon, Tucson

“Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” – Dr Seuss

Figure It Out For Yourself – by George Washington Carver

Figure it out for yourself, my lad,

You’ve all that the greatest of men have had;

Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,

And a brain to use if you would be wise,

With this equipment they all began-

So start from the top and say, I CAN.

Look them over, the wise and the great,

They take their food from a common plate,

And similar knives and forks they use,

With similar laces they tie their shoes;

The world considers them brave and smart,

But you’ve all they had when they made their start.

You can triumph and come to skill,

You can be great if you only will;

You’re well equipped for fight you choose,

You have arms and legs and a brain to use;

And the man who has risen great deeds to do

Began his life with no more than you.

You are the handicap you must face,

You are the one who must choose your place.

You must say where you want to go,

How much you will study the truth to know;

God has equipped you for life, but He

Lets you decide what you want to be.

Courage must come from the soul within

The man must furnish the will to win.

So figure it out for yourself my lad,

You were born with all that the great have had;

With your equipment they all began,

Get hold of yourself and say, ‘I CAN.’

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao-tzu

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun.  I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. ~ Heinrich Heine

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Mexican Gold Poppy & a Visiting Bee

The busy bee has no time for sorrow. 
~ William Blake

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. - Henry David Thoreau

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

-Victor Hugo-

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