This place is quiet

The quest this week is to capture a quiet place,  somewhere where you are able to unwind and softly come apart at the seams. For me this has has to be the world of books. For when I read, the noise of life disappears, only my imagination and the words I am holding matter. I am me.

 There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom.

~Colette

Wednesday August 31st...The garden, revisited

Alas, today is the last day of Susannah's August Break project. I feel quite sad to see August end but at the same time, as the leaves are already beginning to turn here, I am in anticipation of my favourite season, Autumn. This week's 52 Photos Project asks us to revisit the garden, a theme that was first suggested at the beginning of the summer. And so out I went to explore and found the sneaky signs of an early Autumn. I have to say that I didn't pay much attention to the snail by the frog's feet but now, when I look, it seems Mr Frog is playing a sweet lullaby just for Snail.

 

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

 

Tuesday August 30th

 

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, 

but I don't know many of them. 

Sylvia Plath

Monday August 29th

Sometimes life is laundry.

Sunday August 28th

A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.

Turkish Proverb

( I love the idea of this)

Saturday August 27th

Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.

A woman who sits in circles of women.

Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.

Patricia Lynn Reilly

I'm really proud of this necklace, which I created today at a jewellery making workshop at the enchanting The Makery.

August Friday 26th

I love that there are so many ladybirds around at the moment. For me they are full to the brim with positive energy. This afternoon I found so many on my basil plants, it truly looked like a lady bird social gathering. When I looked into the symbolism of these beautiful, instinctive creatures I wasn't surprised to find qualities such as faith, trust, renewal and regeneration. I needed to hear their message today.