MORE "BEND" IN JANUARY 2014

When I am in Bend, I try to get out, rain or shine - cold or hot - probably three times a day to walk.  I've been there in three seasons; Spring, Fall and Winter.  I love each season and was surprised  that I actually had the opportunity to visit in winter and took it.  Prior I had thought, why go to Bend in winter when I can experience snow where I live.  My son wanted us to drive up there with him as he was going home from a job down here, and we would then fly back home after a week visiting.  When we got there it had snowed just a little but then the next few days they had ice fog which I thought was so beautiful.


"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."     RUMI

Life's picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.  Rumi

What you seek is seeking you  - Rumi

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”  Rumi

 He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walkers," 1866

Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. ~Hugh Macmillan, "Rejuvenescence," The Ministry of Nature, 1871

 There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout