Rays

Sweet is the memory of distant friends !
Like the mellow rays of the departing sun ;
it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
- Washington Irving

Autumn Leaves

I prefer winter and fall ;
when you feel the bone structure of the landscape
-- the loneliness of it --
the dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it
-- the whole story doesn't show.
- Andrew Wyeth

Puppy

"Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin;

Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in."
- Arthur Guiterman

Ripples

“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment;
just doing nothing;
just sitting and looking at the sea;
or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs;
or waves rippling on a pond;
a flickering candle or children playing in the park?”
- Ralph Marston

Sunset

“What is life ?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
- Crowfoot