I'm looking for the unexpected

I'm looking for the unexpected by beths822 featuring cross jewelry

Postcard Fantasy

First there was Pinterest. Now there is Polyvore. Have you discovered it yet? It's a site where you can make electronic collages, and I've been having a blast with it! Expect to see lots more collages on my blog. But quickly now -- go check it out for yourself! You may just find it addictive!

Postcard Fantasy by beths822 featuring a striped tote

Seaside Saturday: I must go down to the seas again...

Created in Polyvore: I must go down to the seas again... by beths822 on polyvore.com

Martha Streck by Asa Tallgard (Elle Russia)
Patterns
gulls
Hiking on the Southern Mendocino Coast, Bowling Ball Beach, Schooner...

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Happy New Year circa 1910

This is a sweet vintage postcard from more than a century ago. It is much cuter than my photos suggest, but hopefully, you can get the idea.

The postcard is addressed to Miss Nellie Knickerbocker, Lenoxville, Pa. And the postmark bears the date of January 4, 1910.

The message on the back intrigues me. Here's what it says:

Nellie, will you please be so kind and send that telescope (satchel) on the next stage and we will pay the charges.

Attend to it at once as we would like to use. Send it to Papa - to Clifford.

Lovingly, Kate.

So who are Kate and Nellie? Sisters, perhaps? And why is it postmarked Lenoxville if it was being mailed to Lenoxville? (If they lived in the same town, presumably nothing would need to be sent by stage.)

I guess we will never know...

The journey into another year begins

Welcome, 2012. I am ready for you. I am ready for all of the joys and surprises, the sorrows and challenges. I am ready for the new friends and the new projects. I am ready for the books I will read, the music I will hear, the photos I will take, and the places I will go. I am ready for all that life has to offer me. I am ready for 2012.

The road of life twists and turns

and no two directions are ever the same.

Yet our lessons come from the journey,

not the destination. ~ Don Williams, Jr.

 Focus on the journey, not the destination.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

~ Greg Anderson

 Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination

that we forget the journey.

 Then we turned, and took our journey

into the wilderness... ~ The Bible

 ...We journey to the day,

And tell each other how we sang

To keep the dark away. ~ Emily Dickinson

 As travellers oft look back at eve

When eastward darkly going,

To gaze upon that light they leave

Still faint behind them glowing —

So, when the close of pleasure’s day

To gloom hath near consign’d us,

We turn to catch one fading ray

Of joy that’s left behind us. ~ T. Moore

  Ithaka

As you set out in search of Ithaka

Pray that your journey be long,

Full of adventures, full of awakenings.

Do not fear the monsters of old …

You will not meet them in your travels

If your thoughts are exalted and remain high,

If authentic passions stir your mind, body, and spirit.

You will not encounter fearful monsters

If you do not carry them within your soul,

If your soul does not set them up

in front of you. ~ Constantine Peter Cavafy

Welcome to 2012! I hope you will decide to take the journey with me. Happy New Year!