Well, it hasn’t been spring quite long enough to start posting new buds and and blossoms, but I have at least been inspired enough to dazzle up a few photos taken over the last little while.

The seed of the chinese bamboo tree spends five years under the ground with no growth whatsoever but in the fifth year it grows over 80 feet tall, have a little patience in life, your success might just be around the corner.
- Dade Keshinro

The greatest oaks have been little acorns.
- Thomas Fuller

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
- Jerry Spinelli

The obstacles you face are… mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
- Clarence Blasier

I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
- Paul Simon

So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don’t know what work they are accomplishing within you?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
~ Frederick Buechner

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~Thornton Wilder

There’s a reason so many of us are drawn to Paris. Just being there, it changes you. The air feels like a cool kiss on the cliff of your cheekbone. The city occurs like a woman–at once lingering and capricious. Paris is a smouldering gaze and wine-stained lips.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
~Thomas Jefferson

We’ll always have Paris.
~Howard Koch

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
~Angela Carter

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
~Vincent van Gogh

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
~G.K. Chesterson

I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.
~Amy Thomas

You’re the only one who knows when you’re using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you’re opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is – working with it rather than struggling against it. You’re the only one who knows.
~Pema Chodron