Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake. :Unknown:

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. :Voltaire: Canon 50d  |  1/1000  |  f2.8  |  ISO 1600  |  43mm (24-70mm)

Beauty is not caused. It is. :Emily Dickinson:  

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.  A happiness weapon.  A beauty bomb.  And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one.  It would explode high in the air – explode softly – ...

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

  Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.

Life is too short to be small. Benjamin Disraeli February 27  |  7:49 a.m. Canon 50d  |  1/250  |  f3.2  |  ISO 2000  |  40mm (24-70)

  O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Shelley February 26  |  10:32 a.m. Canon 50d  |   1/640  |  f2.8  |  ISO 200  |  50mm (24-70)

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest. The Talmud February 25  |   3:55 p.m. Canon 50d  |  1/1000  |  f2.8  |  ISO 200  |  70mm (24-70)