Garden

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

~ Alfred Austin

Photo Friday

Marine

"Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure,
not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers
who sell primarily in the U.S. market."

~ Dana Rohrabacher

Shiny

"There is no object so soft
but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."

~ Walt Whitman

Thursday Challenge

Leaves

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt."

~ William Allingham

Lens Day

All Hallows' Eve

Bow Maiden

JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt

Tight

gorgeously growded

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you,
till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer,
never give up then,
for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shutterday

I Love...

adventure

"The big question is whether you are going to be able
to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

~ Joseph Campbell

Photo Friday

Hands

"If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time"
~ R. Kelly

Thursday Challenge

Sunset

"A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn."

~ Claude Debussy

Lens Day

Pumpkin

Pumpkin Patch

"Vegetables are a must on a diet.
I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

~ Jim Davis

JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt

Anxiety

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,
but only empties today of its strength."

~ Charles Spurgeon

Moody Monday

Something in your hand

"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap,
the government comes along with a better mouse."

~ Ronald Reagan

Macroday

Jump

"Go Ahead, I Dare Ya"

Diptych

Hollyhocks

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
These are but trifles, to be sure;
but scattered along life's pathway,
the good they do is inconceivable."

~ Joseph Addison

Shutterday

Freeze Frame

Hummingbird Moth

"This freeze-frame moment can't be wrong."

~ J. Geils Band

Photo Friday

Wood

Gnarly

"All living things are gnarly,
in that they inevitably do things
that are much more complex than one might have expected."

~ Rudy Rucker

Photo Sharks

Autumn

Esker Brook Pond - Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

"Delicious autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns."

~ George Eliot

Thursday Challenge

Autumn Leaves

"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

JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt

Good

"Reaction - a boat which is going against the current
but which does not prevent the river from flowing on."

~ Victor Hugo

Moody Monday

Paintings

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."

~ Ansel Adams

Photo Sharks

Athletic

"Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete."

~ Willie Shoemaker

Photo Friday

A Favorite

Autumn Morn

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days
which occur more frequently in memory than in life."

~ P. D. James

Thursday Challenge

Girl

"You tell me you love me, you say you’ll be true
Then you fly around with somebody new
But I’m crazy about you, you butterfly"

~ Andy Williams

Lens Day

Chilly

October Morning

"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like
if I lived in a country where winter is a matter
of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain;
where the sun is never far away,
and the flowers bloom all year long?"

~ Anna Neagle

JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt

JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt Challenge
Second Place: Fall Themes - 10/07/08
Category: Chilly

Thanks to the jurors for selecting our submission.

Cold

"A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor."

~ Scottish Proverb

Kitsch

"Every day you'll see the dust
As I drive my baby in my Magic Bus"

~ The Who

Shutterday

Babies

"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday."

~ Anonymous

Photo Sharks

I'm Feeling...

Surrounded

"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

~ Okakura Kakuzo

Photo Friday

Tiny

Green Sleigh

"Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow."

~ Lydia M. Child

Thursday Challenge

Autumn

Elizabethtown

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."

~ Edwin Teale

Lens Day