# Day 87 Shadow Play

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

~ Fred Rogers

# Day 86 Any Man Can Be a Father...

It really does take someone extra special to be a dad!

# Day 85 Are you watching the boats?

“Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.
Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.
~ Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset in Lesley M.M. Blume's, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters

# Day 84 Knotted Branches

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
~ Matthew Fox

# Day 83 Superwoman loves her mum and dad too!

# Day 82 Here Be Monsters - Tongues and Teeth

- Update on our paper mache project

# Day 81 Painting is silent poetry...

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

# Day 80 Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. ~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. 

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. 

~ Patrick Henry

P.S: Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!" speech is well worth a read. 

(http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm)

# Day 79 ...it is pure potential!

“...it is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual” ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter

# Day 78 Always find time to sit on a bench and just be!

When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.

~Sue Wicks

# Day 77 Christmas spirit lingers on!

# Day 76 Papier-mâché crafts in our shed!

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

– George Bernard Shaw

# Day 75 Give him your heart and he'll give you his.

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

~ John Grogan, Marley and Me

# Day 74 Showing off my triumphs!

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

~May Sarton

# Day 73 My rose has leaves!

I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.

~Roland A. Browne

P.S: One of my 2015 new year resolutions is to learn gardening (learning photography was my 2013-2014 resolution; this year I felt that I am at a stage where I could add another item to my list). I did my research and started with rose and succulents, as safe bets. The rose twig (cutting?) has leaves, and I am so excited! It is like when your baby learns to roll over! 

P.P.S: About the quote, not that I am saying I am nice (now that my rose seems to be growing), but, I do believe that people who have a nice garden (and those who love animals) are usually kind. 

# Day 72 Be the Sunflower!

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

P.S: This is my painting, but today's blog has less to do with showcasing my art and more about having had nothing to shoot in a while :(

# Day 71 The Round Church

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, was built around 1130, its shape being inspired by the rotunda in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

# Day 70 Rather have roses!

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
- Emma Goldman

# Day 69 Happy New Year!