For Your Consideration: The view from my window

FYC - Bon Mots

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. -Charles Dickens
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Bruxton
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; Anatole France
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. Coco Chanel
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. Mickey Mantle
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come - Wm. Shakespeare