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Favorite Quotes from the Cottage

Favorite Quotes from the Cottage

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
“Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks.”
I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions. -- Wendell Berry from Hannah Coulter

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that someone is afraid of something."--L.M.Montgomery from The Blue Castle

It is only with the heart one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine St. Exupery from The Little Prince

Art is the realization of a permanent idea in an ephemeral form. -- Charles Wagner from The Simple Life

We have deemed all these words necessary in order to explain that we have been traveling more slowly than was predicted; concision is not a definitive virtue, on occasion one loses out by talking too much, it is true, but how much has also been gained by saying more than was strictly necessary. --Jose Saramago from The Stone Raft

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of men. -- G.K. Chesterton

Jane Holton, shifting slightly inside her nice black coat, was thinking that, after all, life was a gift--that one of those things about getting older was knowing that so many moments weren't just moments, they were gifts.-- Elizabeth Strout from Olive Kitteridge

There are moments in life--rare for most people--when you suddenly realize that the tapestry of the world is grander and more intricately woven than you had ever imagined. -- Jonathan Auxier from Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard

We must always remember that the path does not produce the change; it only places us where the change can occur.--Richard Foster

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Shots from Apple Hill

Catalpa Sunset
wagon and covered bridge
Greene County roads
porch rails
frost
solitude
deer
ladder on unpainted house
fall leaves
Back porch view autumn
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peaches at apple hill
These Days
These Days
June sunrise
apples
mini-pumpkins
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iris
Salmagundi*
Salmagundi*
apple
Stop and eat here
Dancing sycamore
light behind the storm clouds
cross out my window
deer tracks in snow
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Peale Green (B.Moore paint color)
Peale Green (B.Moore paint color)
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Cider barn and shed
Schoolhouse lights in kitchen
Schoolhouse lights, $105 from various used places.
Subway tile, $120, American Olean in Biscuit, from off the shelf in Lowe's. Oak window sill, $25. Faucet, Priceless...
Subway tile, $120, American Olean in Biscuit, from off the shelf in Lowe’s. Oak window sill, $25. Faucet, Priceless…
headboard made from old door
ceiling is painted Sherwin Williams Steamed Milk.
Hardware, $250, from House of Antique Hardware. This also includes the hardware on the built-in cabinet.
Benjamin Moore Blooming Grove green
Sunlight, Shadows, and Metamerism
reflections in window
Sunrise at Apple Hill
back porch at the cottage
We found the ladder under the house.
We found the ladder under the house.
daffodil buds in snow
sunset
laundry
red squirrel
Old folks at the cottage
English walnut tree (Juglans regia)
Landscape
Landscape
sycamore branches
Ta daaa!
Ta daaa!
10. Cat in window misty color
10. Cat in window misty color
The mail came bringing me old photos...
The mail came bringing me old photos…
chardonnay on the porch
barn at sunset
Country Life
Country Life
Owed to Dad
Owed to Dad
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sunrise
shadows
apple peel
sunset through the spruce
spruce and ice
old hammer
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