5-30-2011

The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day.
A mist in the valley lying,
Blotted the pleasant May.
-Robert Bridges, English poet
Photo: Chippewa Lagoon by M Wild Hansen

5-29-2011

Photo- M Wild Hansen
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
 I love not man the less, but Nature more.
-Lord Byron

3-19-2011

Photo M Wild Hansen

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

-Mark Overby

2-3-11

Batchawana Bay, Ontario
Photo by M Wild Hansen

“It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.”

 -Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)

9-14-2010

Photo M Wild Hansen

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most;

 it's making a great deal out of the little ones. 

　 - Jean Webster