Karma’s Photo Hunt: Before and after

Before the sun shines on their faces.

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The challenge of August

Fun in Ocean City.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.  The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot.  It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.  Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone.

~ Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

A bit of whimsy

A whimsy of daisies

Daisies of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your chains.

~ Unknown

Challenges

A wintry clue

 

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

~ Joseph Campbell

Let’s play

A clue

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator