The Bluebird Patch

  Happiness is finding delight in the little things.  Photo by @papachote  Happiness is knowing someone really cares. Photo by Renee (Aka Shalunya)   Happiness is taking our new shelter dog  for his first stroll in the city. Photo by @lizacardona Pictures are posted every Friday. If you want your photo to be featured you can email to: capturinghappiness@yahoo.com

Happiness is contagious. Help me spread it! I’m a true believer that Happiness is fundamental to human existence. I also believe that online social networks plays a critical role in spreading happiness around the world. A new study that followed a large group of people for 20 years concluded that happiness is more contagious than previously thought. “Your happiness depends not just on your choices and actions, but also on the choices and actions of people you don’t even know who are one, two and three degrees removed from you,” said Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, author of the study, to be published in BMJ, a British journal. If your friend’s friend’s friend becomes happy, that has a bigger impact on you being happy than putting an extra $5,000 in your pocket. People with the most social connections -- friends, spouses, neighbors, relatives -- were also the happiest, the data showed. "Each additional happy person makes you happier," Christakis said. "Imagine tha...

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,  prosperity would not be so welcome.” Anne Bradstreet   The winter season begins with the winter solstice (around December 21 in the Northern hemisphere and June 21 in the Southern hemisphere), and ends with the spring equinox (around March 21 in the Northern hemisphere and September 23 in the Southern hemisphere). So far, Georgia had one of the most "interesting"   winter season in years. We had one of the biggest snow storm ever recorded. It's very hard to believe that we accumulated a total of 5.3 inches of snow since s now is a rare treat in the south. However, as much as I love snow I'm more excited to welcome spring. Today I'm posting my favorite winter pictures as a tribute of the good memories we had during the season. Enjoy them, and I can't wait to see what happy memories will spring bring us. Are you excited or what?? ;)