Sun

Page Toppers

Quotes

• At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every color of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light. (Ann Radcliffe)
• Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. (Walt Whitman)
• Keep your face toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
• May the Sun Shine Warm Upon Your Face
• OK, so what's the speed of dark?
• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (Galileo)
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (James M. Barrie)

The Sun

(John Drinkwater)

I told the sun that I was glad,
I'm sure I don't know why;
Somehow the pleasant way he had
Of shining in the sky,
Just put a notion in my head
That wouldn't it be fun.
If, walking on the hill, I said
"I'm happy" to the sun.

Sunrise and Sunset

See also Sleeping and Waking

Page Toppers

Quotes

• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. (Rumi)
• Dawn begins at midnight
• Oft when the white, still dawn
  Lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart,
  I have felt it like a glory in my heart. (Edwin Markham)
• The sun sets without your assistance.
• A sunset is a sunrise on the other side of the world
• This is the day that the Lord has made
• You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. (Maya Angelou)

Sunrise

(Pollyanna Sedziol)

This
is the only gold
I'll ever possess...

I treasure it,
counting its glory
each dawn.

Sunrise

Page Idea - Sunset

Another double layout that turned out great was all their sunset photos on the beach. We cut out a black palm tree (use the die cut for the shape) then I cut 5 x 11 strip of black, yellow, gold, peach and light blue. I tore each rectangle in half long wise, starting with the black. Put the straight edge of the black on the bottom edge of the page, then tear layers of the other colors. Place the straight edge of the next color under the black. Work on up with all the rest of the colors. When you tear the 5 x 11 in half you use the other strip for the second page. It looked like a sunset on the page with a black palm tree silhouette. Then we placed the photos on top of the sunset we had made on the page. We had a picture of her husband and it looks like he is standing under our black palm tree.

Moon

Page Toppers

The Man in the Moon

The Man in the Moon looked out of the moon,
Looked out of the moon and said,
"'Tis time for all children on the earth
To think about getting to bed!"

I Don't Know a Thing About Love

(Conway Twitty)
(I don't know how I'll work this into my scrapbook but it's my favorite song about the moon)

I talked to the man in the moon
I said sir is she coming back soon
He smiled and he stated, son I'm over-rated
I've had too much credit in those old love tunes

(chorus)
I don't know a thing about love
I just kind of hang here above
I just watch from the sky, will love grow, will it die
I don't know a thing about love

Then I asked him where is she tonight
You must see all things with your light
He said son I could tell you, things that might kill you
But I don't get involved in what's wrong or right
(chorus)

He said I can move oceans, when I take the notion
Or make mountains tremble and rivers run dry
But in all matters human remember there's someone
In charge of those things way above you and I
(Chorus)

Moon Names

Many cultures had names for the various full moons throughout the year. Some of the most common are:

• January - cold moon, wolf moon
• February - trappers moon, snow moon, hunger moon
• March - windy moon, storm moon
• April - growing moon, rain moon
• May - planting moon, flower moon
• June - green corn moon, strawberry moon
• July - ripe corn moon, hay moon, thunder moon
• August - lightening moon, sturgeon moon
• September - harvest moon, big feast moon
• October - hunters moon, falling leaf moon
• November - dark moon, beaver moon
• December - snow moon, winter moon, long night moon

Stars

Page Toppers

from Catch a Falling Star

(sung by Perry Como, music and Lyrics by Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance)

(Chorus)Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,
Never let it fade away!
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,
Save it for a rainy day!

For love may come and tap you on the shoulder,
Some star-less night!
Just in case you feel you wanna' hold her,
You'll have a pocketful of starlight!

(Repeat Chorus)
For when your troubles start multiplyin',
And they just might!
It’s easy to forget them without tryin',
With just a pocketful of starlight!

Catch a Falling Star page idea

Across the top of the page print the words "Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket". Draw a wavy line and write the words along that or use small sticker letters tilted randomly.
Place tiny star stickers as if they are falling down the right side of the page.
At the bottom right put a pocket shape in paper that coordinates with the photos or mats you are using on the page.
Add more words from the song at the bottom of the page if they fit the theme.

Quotes

• Black holes are where God divided by zero.
• Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. (Violeta Parra)
• Even a small star shines in the darkness. (Finnish Proverb)
• If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
• Hitch your wagon to a star. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• On my horizon you'll always be the star.
• One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness...My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so...the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will. (Rachel Carson)
• Reach for the Moon. If you fall short...You may land on a star.
• Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. (Susan Longacre)
• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
  Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. (Pamela Vaull Starr)
• Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. (Doug Larson)
• Silently, one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of angels. (Longfellow)
• Starlight, Starbright,
  I wish I may, I wish I might,
  Have this wish I wish tonight.
• The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of the night. (Henry David Thoreau)
• The stars exist that you might know how high your dreams can soar.
• There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself!
• There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. (Frances Clark)
• Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. (Sarah Williams)
• We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
• When it's dark enough, you can see the stars. (Charles A. Beard)
• When You Wish Upon a Star
• Wish Upon a Star
• You and I forever is my one wish upon a star.
• You may not be a star but you need not be a cloud.

The Falling Star

(Sara Teasdale)

I saw a star slide down the sky,
Blind the north as it went by,
Too burning and too quick to hold,
Too lovely to be bought or sold,
Good only to make wishes on
And then forever to be gone.