There is Beauty All Around

My children constantly bring beauty into my life!

Evan finished his temple masterpiece.

Here are some lovely self portraits of my beautiful girl!

She assures me that she is not really sad, but just posing for a more interesting picture.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;

Landscapes plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;

And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;

Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)

With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;

He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

Praise Him.

Gerard Manley Hopkins