DON'T JUDGE...

 I accidentally published this too early, something I am prone to do every now and again. Ah well, instead of yanking it out and confusing everyone, I'll leave it be. There won't be another tomorrow. For some strange reason, my cauliflower and almond recipe which this post preempted, doesn’t show on my iPad. Just in case the same thing is happening to you, that recipe can be found here.

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”

~Robert Louis Stevenson~

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson - November 13th, 1850 - December 3rd, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for his novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1893), and the poetry collection, A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). Born and educated in Edinburgh (Scotland), Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890 he settled in Samoa, where alarmed at increasing European and American influences in the South Sea Islands, his writing turned from romance and adventure fiction, toward a darker realism. He died of a stroke in his island home in 1894 at the age of 44.

I found another post on my old blog that I had done on this poet and will share it sometime. You can find out more information if you click on his name under the poem.

The tree in the photo is a Ginko Tree found in the Colonial town of Williamsburg, Virginia, many years ago.