The Dancing Lesson

Breton Schoolgirls
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
Edith Wharton

Iridescence

Idle Hours
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps

The Sea Maidens

Two Angels
A true friend is an angel, who picks you up off of your feet,
when your wings don't remember how to fly. ~

The Blind Girl

The Bower Meadow
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting,
leave their bite on the heart,
but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Woodman's Daughter

By a clear well, within a little field
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends,
never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

Dancers

The Bower Meadow
Some friends come and go
but true friends leave footprints in our hearts. ~

Enchanted Maidens
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

An Alfresco Toilet
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it's only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

Music
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Birdsong

Two Girls with Oleander
A good friend is a connection to life -
a tie to the past, a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse

Study for Nymphs
finding the Head of Orpheus

Sorrow and Song

An Idyll
If instead of a gem, or even a flower,
we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend,
that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

The Three Princesses

Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may

Youth and Time
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Danaïdes

Lightning and Light
One doesn't know,
till one is a bit at odds with the world,
how much one's friends
who believe in one rather generously,
mean to one.
D.H. Lawrence

Consulting the Oracle
We all take different paths in life,
but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim Mcgraw

A Flower Stall
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

Mischief and Repose

A Poet

Horae Serenae (detail)
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~