Thought of the Week
“You don’t have to wait for the snow to start to hear a happy song. If you’ll only sing what’s in your heart, it’s Christmas all year long!”
Keith McClelland
Christmas Prelude, 2017: Photo by Robert Dennis
“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.”
Mother Teresa
Dawn of the Holiday Season: Photo by Robert Dennis
"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thinking of Past, Present & Future on Parson’s Way: Photo by Tom Foley
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” Garrison Keillor
Just a Few Weeks Ago: Photo by Bill Lord of Maine HDTV
“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” John Muir
Storm Waves by Walker’s Point: Photo by Robert Dennis
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
John Burroughs
Light & Color at the Emmons Preserve: Photo by Robert Dennis
“How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs.” Ludwig van Beethoven
The Jourdan Curve Bridge on the Edwin Smith Preserve: Photo by Bud Danis
"If the sun is bright and the sky is cloudless--and such a day will always be available in mid-October--the reflection of light off the ocean can be almost painful, it shimmer musically surreal." Richard Russo "Autumn" "A Place Called Maine"
Geese Flying South in a Partly Cloudy Sky Over the Cove in Cape Porpoise: Photo by Robert Dennis
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
John Muir
Bobcat Ridge on the Edwin Smith Preserve: Photo by David Jourdan
“The images of a long lifetime remain vivid for the nation’s oldest surviving president (George H. W. Bush), but he will not rank them. They are a continuum, it seems, not a hierarchy. ‘At age 93 now, I have too many memories to separate just one or two out,’ Bush wrote in the e-mail. ‘But let me say this. It’s where my parents were married. It’s where some of my grandchildren were married too. So the town (Kennebunkport), and its people, are a part of my heartbeat. It’s always been that way, and thus may it ever be.’” Brian MacQuarrie in the Boston Globe, July 4, 2017
Walker’s Point: Photo by Robert Dennis
"It was a place of work, but a place too of order and rest, where work was done in a condition of acknowledged blessedness and of gratitude." Wendell Berry in "Remembering: A Novel (Port William)"
Boats in Order and Rest in Cape Porpoise Harbor: Photo by Robert Dennis
"I know that at times I will be troubled,
I know that at times I will be belabored,
I know that at times I will be disquieted,
but I believe that I will not be overcome."
Dame Julian of Norwich (1342- c. 1416)
Overcome by the Beauty of Place: Photo by Robert Dennis
“Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” Vincent Van Gogh
Friends Enjoying the Last Days of Summer at Goose Rocks Beach: Photo by Robert Dennis
“The joys that we have come to know and love in this place are not ours alone. They are pleasures that have been handed down from one generation to the next, an appreciation of our landscape that has remained unchanged by the passage of time. “ Tom Bradbury
Reflections from Cape Porpoise: Photo by Robert Dennis
Entry in the Trott’s Island Notebook: 8/5/2011 Lydia & Leslie
Stranded on the island! Almost eaten by cannibals, got lost in the forest for hours and ate poisonous fruit. Sent an SOS but no one saved us.
Abducted by pirates. Got scurvy from being at sea too long. And got sunburned.
Enjoying a More Peaceful Time on Trott’s Island (Looking Across to Cape Island): Photo by Phil Ludwig
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
John Muir
Paddy’s Cove on a Summer’s Day: Photo by Tim Fraser
“Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.”
John Ruskin
Sunset over St. Anne’s: Photo by Robert Dennis
“What we think or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
John Ruskin
Paddy’s Creek, Cape Porpoise: Photo by Robert Dennis
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.” Barbara Bush
“Ganny’s Garden” on the River Green in Full Bloom: Photo by Robert Dennis
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Summer’s Day in Kennebunkport: Photo by Robert Dennis
