All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS or Canon Rebel XTi.

I failed to use my camera this week…so I thought I’d go back and find my favorites so far for 2011. Trying to keep the list small is my biggest challenge ;).

The courage to imagine otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. ~Daniel J. Boorstin

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. ~Blaise Pascal

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. ~Jalal ad-Din Rumi

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph Conrad