Happy Halloween!

While out walking...

Inspired by Helen Keller.

 Just 4 days ago.

Today.

Everyone can use some inspiration

and Helen Keller was a tremendous source of

 inspiration and she shared it with the world

and we are better because of it!

Once I knew only darkness and stillness...

my life was without past or future...

but a little word from the fingers of another

fell into my hand that

clutched at emptiness,

and my heart leaped

to the rapture of living.

~Helen Keller

 

Life is either a great

adventure or nothing.

~Helen Keller

 

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,

or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new doorway 

for the human spirit.

~Helen Keller

 

The marvelous richness of human experience would

lose something of rewarding joy if there were no

limitations to overcome.

The hilltop hour would not

be half so wonderful if there

were no dark valleys to traverse.

~Helen Keller

 

One can never consent to creep

when one feels an impulse to soar.

~Helen Keller

 

What I am looking for is not

out there,

it is in me.

~Helen Keller

 

We could never learn to be brave and patient,

if there were only joy in the world.

~Helen Keller

 

There is no king who has not

had a slave among his ancestors,

and no slave who has not had 

a king among his.

~Helen Keller

 

When we do the best that we can,

we never know what miracle

is wrought in our life,

or in the life of another.

~Helen Keller

 

The best and most beautiful

things in the world cannot

be seen or even touched-

they must be felt with the heart.

~Helen Keller

 

I am only one, but still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

but still I can do something;

and because I cannot do everything,

I will not refuse to do

something that I can do.

~Helen Keller

 

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

~Helen Keller

 

Faith is the strength by which

a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

~Helen Keller

 

All the world is full of suffering.

It is also full of overcoming.

~Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you.

Resolve to keep happy,

and your joy and you

shall form an invincible 

host against difficulties.

~Helen Keller

 

 

 

 

 

It's my party and I can cry if I want too...

She really didn't cry much at all.

Mostly she smiled, laughed and laughed!

One of her favorite gifts was chips and salsa.

My daughter-in-law put on a darling birthday party!

 Adorable!

Happy Birthday!

Little Miss Sunshine 

is two years old!

Proof that she has more

than us mere humans 

wrapped around her finger!

True Love!

Is it Friday, already?

This week went by SOOOO fast!

I think I have whiplash because of it!

Tomorrow is Little Miss Sunshine's 2nd birthday!

Here are some other things I loved:

Bend, Not Break

sounds like an incredible motto

and is the name of a fascinating book

of a remarkable and inspirational woman.

I may just have to read it!

Loved much of this

and this

(I can't get that triangle wall out of my head!). 

And this mural!

Gotta love a dog in costume!

Oh, Iceland, there you go again

with something else to captivate me!

While out walking (it was two different days)...

You make me smile!

Autumn. Captured.

I'm glad I took these pictures today

(today being Thursday, as I type)

because later in the day,

the wind whipped up

and so many of the leaves

blew away.

Other things I loved this week:

Great words.

 Love these rooms.

Stunning.

Beautiful photos of beautiful homes.

Look at this adorable costume!

Fall in love with a little train

that thought he could

 fly into space

and did.

I went driving on Sunday and found a hidden treasure! Diamond Fork. How have I NOT known about this place!

This place is LESS than 30 minutes away from us!

What a hidden gem!

So last night we went up there
and had a picnic, hiked,
roasted marshmallow's
and had s'mores!
Bliss!