The Eye of the Beholder.

Some people collect baseball cards. Some people collect stamps. Some people collect seashells.

I collect beautiful things.

My house if full of them. Sometimes they're little statues, sometimes they're paintings, sometimes they're pictures. Sometimes they're scarves, sometimes they're books, sometimes they're necklaces and bracelets and rings.

I get them from thrift stores and flea markets and my grandmother's basement. I make them or I buy them online. And sometimes they're given to me.

On my laptop, I have a folder labeled "Lovelies" where I keep pictures I find on the internet (or that I take) that I find beautiful.

Here are some of my favorites:

The Black Sea.

This is Coco, one of my cats. She sleeps like this often.

El Cafate, Argentina

A picture I took on one of my many drives to from Columbus to Rochester.

Wherever this is, I want to be there.

Here too.

Every time I look at this picture, it makes me want to go on a road trip.