Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. ~ H. A. Overstreet
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Love’s Labor’s Lost, one of three plays performed as part of Shakespeare Santa Cruz 2010 ~ now in its 29th season ~ opened July 21 in the Festival Glen, a natural amphitheater in the redwoods of University of California, Santa Cruz.
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There’s something beautiful about an old watering can, but it’s got to be a metal can, nothing plastic that predictably hardens, chips, and discolors uniformly with age. No, only real watering cans have Shibui. They have character because there’s something endearing in their unique scruffiness.
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ~ Sam Keen
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I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. ~ Roland A. Browne
After meeting Tessa Sabankaya, owner of Bonny Doon Garden Company – which recently moved from its kiosk location outside Bookshop Santa Cruz into Fair Street New Leaf Community Market – I’d opine that nice people tend to grow roses.
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Have you ever come upon an iridescent rose or is there even such a thing?
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For him in vain the envious seasons roll
Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Frequenting our downtown Farmer’s Market in the summer is a savory affair, especially if you’re a tad hungry and in need of a jolt of energy, which is where bite-sized fruit samples come in. Enjoy the juicy blast of organic orange, strawberry, cherry, blueberry, plum, peach, or nectarine, and your taste buds will talk you into buying as much as you can afford.
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Were I an oil painter, I’d gain inspiration from a quote by Stanley Horowitz:
Winter is an etching, spring is a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
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In all natural things, there is something of the marvelous. ~ Aristotle
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