YOUR VACATIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL NOW! PART 2

Today, we are sharing more of your beautiful vacation photos. Get ready to be inspired by these wonderful images, plus some quotes about the wonder of vacations.

Summertime… and the livin’ is easy.

-- George Gershwin

There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.

― Nora Roberts, author of Rising Tides

Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work.

-- Harry Van Demark, The Texas Magazine

More than just yearly rituals in which we connect with friends and family, vacations are also exercises in self-definition. In affording time away from the demands of everyday life, vacations disclose what people choose to do rather than are required to do.

-- Cindy Sondik Aron, author of Working at Play

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

-- Elbert Hubbard, author

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

-- Wallace Stevens

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

-- John Lubbock, author of The Pleasures of Life

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

-- Celia Thaxter, poet

Life is a trip. Plan your next vacation.

-- Matthew E. Fryer

A life without love is like a year without summer.

-- Swedish Proverb

Read more about Beautiful Vacations, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including Your Vacations are Beautiful Now! Part 1, 10 Beautiful Vacation Spots Where Nature Shines Best, Food Drink Vacations, and Arts Design Vacations.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Ken Kearney. Superior Wisconsin.
2. Image: by Jen Owens. Franklin, North Carolina.
3. Image: by Carolyn Riggs. Tracey Arm Fjord in Alaska.
4. Image: by Tonia Gomes. Grand Canyon.
5. Image: by Rick N Tonya Madison. The Colorado National Monument between Grand Junction and Fruita, Colorado.
6. Image: by Pat Pearse White. Sunset - Avon, North Carolina.
7. Image: by Frances Bambara. Scilla in Calabria Italy!
8. Image: by Tammy Lynn Sotomayor. Royal Gorge.
9. Image: by Tim Peck. Vista House. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon.
10. Image: by Kim Costa. Burney Falls, California.
11. Image: by Beatrice Hamon. Napoli, Italy.
12. Image: by Debra Ann Franklin. San Diego, California.
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14. Image: by Linda Allor. Colorado's National Monument.