Clementine

August 2003	Photo by Linda Musick

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout. -- Lord Byron

Eliza Jane

August 2003	Photo by Linda Musick

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it . . . as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does. --John Ruskin

Eliza Jane	Clementine
August 2003	Photo by Linda Musick

It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap. --Alexis de Tocqueville