I’m away on vacation and will return to my regularly scheduled posting next weekend. But until then, I hope you'll enjoy a few quotes and photographs.

"The human soul needs beauty even more than it needs bread."

-D.H. Lawrence

From our garden to our kitchen table.

"A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first."
-Louis L'Amour

Bluff trail in Northern California

“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
- Samuel Johnson

Reading by the river.

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
-Albert Einstein

An evening view.

I hope you are able to surround yourself with beauty and a tall stack of engaging books. I also hope that we can all “awaken joy in creative expression” within our children, students, friends and selves.