Our attitude toward life...

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Thomas Jefferson's Country Retreat-Poplar Forest

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer

The Lower Level of Jefferson's Country Retreat at Poplar Forest

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus
Photgraphed at Poplar Forest, in Bedford County Virginia

A Visit to Thomas Jefferson's Country Retreat

The Road Not Taken

Two roads deverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black,

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh,

Somewhere ages and ages hence;

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I~

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Photgraphed at Poplar Forest, Bedford County, Virginia