The hourglass of time

What better symbol for the last day of 2013. And time for a quote by Nietsche:
"What if a demon was to creep after you one night, after your loneliest loneliness, and say: This life which you live, must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned, and you with it, dust of the dust! Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer: Never have I heard anything more divine."

I know what my answer would be!

More pictures and contemplations are here.

Thanks so much for making my bouquet sparkle even more in the spotlight.