Little Things......

 "If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry,more immortal....that is your success." -Thoreau

 LITTLE THINGS by Orrick Johns (1887-1946) (excerpts)

 There's nothing very beautiful ....

 About the rush of faces in the town by day.

But a light tan cow in a pale green mead

 That is very beautiful, beautiful indeed.

 And the soft March wind, and the low March mist

 are better than kisses in a dark street kissed.

 The fragrance of the forest when it wakes at dawn......

 The fragrance of a trim green village lawn,

 The hearing of the murmur of the rain at play...

 These things are beautiful, beautiful as day!

 And I shan't stand waiting for love or scorn

 When the feast is laid for a day new-born........

 Oh, better let the little things I loved when little , return when the heart finds the great things brittle;

 And better is a temple made of bark , than a tall stone temple that may stand too long.....

 "Little Things" from 1000 Beautiful Things, 1942

Photographs 2018