I am not short on ideas. What I am short on is energy. I am out of spoons, so to speak. So I am taking my own advice and sharing a few things with you that don’t require much of me, and I hope you enjoy it. I’ll be back in full force next week, unless I’m not, in which case you’ll get more pretty pictures.

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. ~Mary Oliver

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself. ~Emily Dickinson

If love were an animal it would be two: a hummingbird and a snake. Both perfectly untrainable. ~Cheryl Strayed