I never change, I simply become more myself.
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. A lovely summer sky, taken in a parking lot after shopping. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

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Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.
― Ally Condie, Matched

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. My front yard is only good for growing two things, mushrooms and moss… At least it’s green! No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking an afternoon walk around Floyd, VA in the rain. Hanging baskets with a beautiful variety of flowers seemed to be outside every shop. I couldn’t resist these deep violet and vivid pink flowers. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone

 

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking an afternoon walk around Floyd, VA in the rain. Hanging baskets with a beautiful variety of flowers seemed to be outside every shop. I couldn’t resist these incredible purple and yellow pansies. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

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It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
― Roy T. Bennett

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. While taking a walk around Floyd, VA, my parents and I came across a farmers’ market and this fantastic flower box. It was Mom’s favorite, so Mom, these flower-box kaleidoscopes are for you! No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
― Nicholas Sparks

  

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. Found a great moss and lichen bespeckled brick wall on an afternoon walk near Forest Hill Park, in Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found these lovely and unusual flowers in a small garden near my parking deck in downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
― Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. My front yard is only good for growing two things, mushrooms and moss… At least it’s green! No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
― Nelson Mandela

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. A lovely summer sky, taken in a parking lot after shopping. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

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Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. Found a great moss and lichen bespeckled brick wall on an afternoon walk near Forest Hill Park, in Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.