YOUR VACATIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL NOW! PART 1

With summer drawing to a close, we want to reflect on beautiful vacations. Today, we are featuring some of YOUR beautiful vacations! Here are some of the best photos that you shared with us on our Facebook page, along with some inspiring quotes. Keep checking back for more of your photos, all week long!

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!

-- Mehmet Murat Ildan, Turkish novelist

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

-- Max von Sydow, actor

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

-- Christian Dior

Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal, and a time to stretch ourselves and encounter new people, new lands, new ways, and new options.

-- Anne Wilson Schaef, creator of Living in Process

A vacation is like love -- anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

-- Unknown

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-- Henry James, American author

Vacations are necessities, not luxuries.

-- Linda Bloom, author of 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

-- Sam Keen, American author

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

-- Robert Orben, American comedy writer

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty.

-- Nancy Gibbs, editor of Time Magazine

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Jennifer Berreondo. Atop the Continental Divide near the Wolf Creek Lodge in Colorado.
2. Image: by Hannah Conroy. The train to Silverton in Colorado. Snow in May.
3. Image: by Kathy Brem. Xcaret, Mexico -- beautiful ecological park!
4. Image: by Delphine Serges.
5. Image: by Shelby Abrego.
6. Image: by Janice Carolan. Aphrodite's Bath. Cyprus.
7. Image: by Tammy Lynn Sotomayor. Breckenridge.
8. Image: by Damien DiLeo.
9. Image: by Lisa Harper Garcia. Cape Flattery, Washington.
10. Image: by Amanda Huber-Habel. Holtwood, Pennsylvania.
11. Image: by Sherri Lynn Hartford Smith. Cherokee Falls at Cloudland State Park in July of this year.
12. Image: by Peggy Pifer McCleskey. Gulf Shores, AL.
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14. Image: by Sherri Lynn Hartford Smith. Carter's Lake in Ellijay, GA. This year in July.