Cleaning the house.

Putting up the tree.

I just thought I would spiff up the blog for the holidays.

Big things are a coming.

To change one’s life:  Start immediately.  Do it flamboyantly.  No exceptions.  ~William James

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

~Henry David Thoreau

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.  ~Stanley Horowitz

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance.

Desiderus Erasmus

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Etsy Front Page 12/27/08 ptitebaloue, originally uploaded by Etsy Front Pagers.

I was on Etsy’s Front page way back in December! Wow I didn’t even know.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.  ~Marian Zimmer Bradley