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“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.”

Posted at 10:38 pm by 1909ventilo, on February 2, 2017

Sharing some of my favorite pictures of my family, and Florence Oregon. It’s dreary here today, I look forward to spring!

“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”.“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.”~Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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a “Secret Garden!” The flowers scattered,

Posted at 12:16 am by 1909ventilo, on September 21, 2016

I was on my walk when I stumbled upon an old garden, a “Secret Garden!” The flowers scattered, no one around to love or cut them. The dark purple grapes plentiful where entwined around a trellis and a huge tree. These spectacular grapes dangling far over my head, hidden for birds and small animals to feast on. Gated for few to see, but so spectacular! Remembering the book, I found this quote….” One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live… surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.”

“Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden