© Dan DeMarle – photo taken by Dan DeMarle 2016

Taken at the ABC Streets Garden Tour on 7/16

© Dan DeMarle – photo taken by Dan DeMarle 2016

Taken at the Black Lives Matter Event in Rochester NY 7/8/16

© Dan DeMarle – photo taken by Dan DeMarle 2016

Cottage after the top of the hill, on the road between Salen and Acharacle. Scotland

© Dan DeMarle – photo taken by Dan DeMarle 2015

My wife tells me that this Lucifer plant was originally brought over from  my mother’s garden.

© Dan DeMarle – photo taken by Dan DeMarle 2016

Saw this adorable little girl at the Public Market and got permission from her parents to take  her picture.

© Dan DeMarle – photo taken by Dan DeMarle 2016

When I was small,
the world was large,

When i got older,
The world was still large.

When I become very old,
the world will still be large.

There is so much out there.
There is so much to see, and do.
There is so much to learn.

People question if there are miracles.
People wonder about hows and whys.
People question destiny and fate.

What I know.
What I truly know.
Is that somehow, 
while I was still a young thing,
In this whole big, gigantic world
I found you!

What did Alice and Peter talk about
when they met in 1932 at Columbia?
She was 80 by then, long years since Wonderland

Alice had grown, as we all do.
She had married and become a mother
Her two oldest boys were both killed during the Great War.

Peter had also grown.
He had served in the Great War,
but unlike Alice's sons he had lived.
Although he lost a brother,
but besides his brother, like Cook 
they say he lost something in those trenches.
Maybe that was what led him to drink
and finally to dive under that moving train,
after meeting Alice, of course.

Alice lived long but eventually had to sell that magical book
that started her story on.
Like Mrs. Banks she worked for women's issues, before
She died peacefully.

What did they talk about,
when Neverland and Wonderland met?
Did they talk of magic and queens?
Or did they talk about their loves and losses?
They both inspired so much
What did they talk about over tea,
when Neverland and Wonderland met?

In those trenches, did Peter search for that shadow?
Did he find those lost boys in the end?
Or did he lose them like his brother in those fields?
Did he dive under that train,
because he finally found that shadow?
or was it Tink he saw?

When Alice died?
Was her family around her?
And did the rabbit wait in the garden?
With an invitation from the King?
Did that rabbit hole open up again?
In the end did they both find their ways?
To that endless place where children's dreams
have gone after reading thier stories?
In the end did they find peace?