"A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky."

~ Chinese Proverbs

Red-eyed tree frog, Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica

"Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake"

~ Persian Proverb

"If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?"

~ Stephen Wright

Orangutan, Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesian Borneo

"Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority."

~ W.J. Cameron

"HAMSTERS WAKE, THEY'RE EYES BRIGHT,
THEY SCURRY AROUND, WHILE TAKING FLIGHT.

THEY RUN THEIR ROUNDS, BY THE MOOD,
THEY HIDE IN THE STUFFING, HIDIND THEIR FOOD.

THEY JUMP UP TUBES, AND FALL BACK TO GROUND,
THEY'ER SO LIGHT, THEY DONT WIEGH A POUND.

BY THE NOON OF DAY, THEY'RE READY TO PLAY!

HAMSTERS CLIMB UP, TO THEIR WHEELS,
SOME FALL OFF, DUE TO THIER MEALS.

SOME GET TIRED, AND NAP FOR NOW,
IN THE EVENING, THEYLL WAKE WITH A POW."

~ Lily Damonor

Valentine Pompon by pyza*

"Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
Like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself..."

~ Norman Wesley Brooks

Photo by MayJ

"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."

~ Joan Winmill Brown

Photo by pyza*