Leaves

View from Blueberry Hill

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."

~ John Muir

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Alone

"We're all in this alone."

~ Lily Tomlin

Moody Monday

Random

"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."

~ Robert R. Coveyou

Yellow

Yellow Butterfly Bush

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot,
but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun."

~ Pablo Picasso

Macroday

Spontaneous

Sunflowers + 2 finches = Let's Eat

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire."

~ Reggie Leach

Photo Friday

Maps

New York State featured in a Voss Diary 1918.
This ancient PDA found in Grandpa's attic.

"Even with the best of maps and instruments,
we can never fully chart our journeys."

~ Gail Pool

Macroday

Large

Who is there to mourn for Logan?

Thursday Challenge

The Beach

"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."

~ Lenny Bruce

Lens Day

Shutterday

Award

Cubs At Last

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them
with more noise than is normal."

~ Peter Ustinov

Moody Monday

Gallery

"The gallery in which the reporters sit
has become the fourth estate of the realm."

~ Lord McCauley

The Extraordinary

The Green Monster via Fenway Park

"It's not easy being green."

~ Kermit The Frog

Photo Friday

Handmade

"Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in.
And so easy to build, too."

~ Henrik Ibsen

Photo Sharks

Plants

Aster

Thursday Challenge

Blue

Blue Iris

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

~ Duke Ellington

Lens Day

Ripple

Francis Lake - a ripple but not the wine

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

~ Scott Adams

Tuesday Challenge

Switch

"He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room
just by flicking a switch."

~ Unknown

Macroday

Love

People all over the world
Join hands
Start a love train, love train
~ The O'Jays

Moody Monday

_FILLIN_

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character
by his way of eating jellybeans."

~ Ronald Reagan

Street Photography

"I don't mind what Congress does,
as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

~ Victor Hugo

Shutterday

Friends

"The moving multitude...darkened the whole plains"

~ Lewis and Clark, 1806

Photo Sharks

Relationship

Scamp & Fluffy

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."

~ Henry Winkler

Photo Friday

Featured on WTVH

Took this photo when Joan and I were at Camp Michael last week.

John DiPasquale, CBS 5 Meteorologist, put this peaceful photo on air today at 510 AM and 610 AM and then again between 1210 PM and 1220 PM. The photo was also featured on their http://www.wtvh.com website.

School

"We all learn by experience
but some of us have to go to summer school."

~ Peter De Vries

Thursday Challenge

Sky

Sky Over Vermont

Thank God men cannot as yet fly
and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!”

~ Henry David Thoreau

Lens Day

Music

The Bailey Brothers

"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"

~ J. K. Rowling

Tuesday Challenge

Covetous

"The covetous man is ever in want."

~ Horace

Moody Monday

Something on the Floor

Baby's First Rattle

"Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."

~ John Lennon

This entry received the top three number of votes
from the 'Something on the Floor' challenge.

Symbol

Shea Stadium

"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol,
and an audience is electrified."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hair

First Haircut

Shutterday

Essential

"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom."

~ Mikhail Bakunin

Photo Sharks

The Ordinary

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Photo Friday

Tools

"Men have become fools with their tools."

~ Thomas Elisha Stewart

Thursday Challenge

Relaxation

"Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually."

~ Jimi Hendrix

Lens Day

Beads

Orange Necklace on Water

Tuesday Challenge

Temperature

"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is,
it's always room temperature."

~ Steven Wright

Photo Sharks

Grave

The Fickle Finger of Fate

Moody Monday