Tea

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

~ Abraham Lincoln

Drops/Droplets

"Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods,
and then year by year, gradually walking home."

~ April Foiles

Macroday

Star

"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed,
when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men.
The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."

~Arthur C. Clarke

Shutterday

Emotions - Timid

"A timid person is frightened before a danger,
a coward during the time,
and a courageous person afterward."

~ Jean Paul Richter

Photo Friday

Irene’s Swing

"Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."

~ Will Rogers

Thursday Challenge

1st Crocus

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

~ Lewis Mumford

Lens Day

Moody Monday

Easter

"It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is,
whether you want him or whether you don't."

~ Rabbit

Tuesday Challenge

hi-tech

An Apiary

"Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails."

~ Scottish Proverb

Moody Monday

Temperature

"In the half-tone light of a young morning
she sighs and shifts on the pillow.
And across her face dancing, the first shadows fly
to kiss the Pussy Willow."

~ Jethro Tull

Macroday

Door

"Personality can open doors,
but only character can keep them open."

~ Elmer G. Letterman

Home

"Human beings are the only creatures
that allow their children to come back home."

~ Bill Cosby

Shutterday

Found Objects

"I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup!
I love maple syrup. I love maple syrup on pancakes. I love it on pizza.
And I take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair
when I've had a rough week.
What do you think holds it up, slick?"

~ Jeremy Grey

Photo Friday

Furniture

Picnic Table

"Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods,
and then year by year, gradually walking home."

~ April Foiles

Photo Sharks

Sound Waves

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

~ Edgar Wilson Nye

Thursday Challenge

Owasco Lake - Ice Out

"[Spring is] a true reconstructionist."

~ Henry Timrod

Toys

"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones;
the difference is only in the price."

~ Benjamin Franklin

Lens Day

Bird - Baby Robin

"Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata.
The strains of grass pushing through the snow.
The song of buds swelling on the vine.
The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart."

~ Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Tuesday Challenge

Irish

"Bricks and mortar make a house,
but the laughter of children makes a home."

~ Irish Proverb

Moody Monday

Keys

"Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key"

~ Melanie Safka

Macroday

Friend

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms
with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

~ Samuel Butler

Open/Closed

"It is better to keep your mouth closed
and let people think you are a fool
than to open it and remove all doubt."

~Mark Twain

Shutterday

Peeps

SRO Peep

Where do Peeps come from?

The Good Life

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life.
I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy
- I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

~ Bertrand Russell

Photo Friday

Green

"A hedge between keeps friendship green."
~ German Proverb

Thursday Challenge

Metallic

"Things should be made as simple as possible,
but not any simpler."
~ Albert Einstein

Lens Day

Wedding

"I could dance with you until the cows come home.
On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows
until you come home."
~ Groucho Marx

Tuesday Challenge

Straight

"Space isn't remote at all.
It's only an hour's drive away
if your car could go straight upwards."
~ Fred Hoyle

Moody Monday

Odd Toys

"It's not that easy bein' green ...

But green's the color of Spring"

- Kermit the Frog

Macroday

Thing Seen

"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm."

~ Dorothy Parker

Shutterday

Games

"Whatever games are played with us,
we must play no games with ourselves."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday Challenge

Wood

A dense growth of trees or underbrush

covering a relatively small or confined area.

Lens Day

Photo Friday

Football

"Football is a mistake.

It combines the two worst elements of American life.

Violence and committee meetings."

~ George F. Will

Tuesday Challenge

Beautiful

"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen, or even touched.

They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

Moody Monday

Flag

"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."

~ Woodrow Wilson

Shoes

“Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty

without taking off your shoes.”

~ Mickey Mouse

Shutterday