needn'tly

ultratech abstract, a photo by McBeth on Flickr.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.

-- William Faulkner

beyond the gables

Monona Terrace bike path, a photo by McBeth on Flickr.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery