Thursday, 9 February 2012

Spring & Success

I don't know about you, but I am so...ready for Spring! We've had no real winter to
speak of here. So being the fair weather friend that I am, I'm turning my snooty back
on Winter and beckoning my lovely friend, Spring, to come and visit soon.
I would also like to share a poem that I have about success with you, along with
some photos of gardening inspirations that I 'dug-up'. Success is speaking words of praise,
In cheering other people's ways,
In doing just the best you can,
With every task and every plan. It's silence when your speech would hurt,
Politeness when your neighbor's curt.
It's deafness when the scandal flows,
And sympathy with others' woes. It's loyalty when duty calls,
It's courage when disaster falls,
It's patience when the hours are long,
It's found in laughter and in song. It's in the silent time of prayer.
In happiness and in despair,
In all of life and nothing less,
We find the thing we call success. I am on my way over to Emily and Ryan's to spend the weekend
and have fun with these two cuties of mine. They just lost their
dog yesterday, so it's a pretty sad household. I'm hoping I can
bring a little sunshine to them.
I hope you have a good weekend, my friends.
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