Monday, August 31, 2009

Yellow Finch



Yellow Finch


Imagine our surprise when having our morning coffee on the front porch this yellow finch perched on a sunflower and began havinghis breakfast.

Speed



"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed."

~ Edward Young



More interpretations of Speed at Unique’s Photo Challenge

Heavenly



SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church


"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes



More interpretations of Heavenly at

Saturday, August 29, 2009

What I Did On My Summer Vacation



You know we're goin' to Surf City, gonna have some fun, now
Two girls for every boy
Jan & Dean


"I got to learn to surf."

~ Sheryl Crow



More interpretations of What I Did On My Summer Vacation at shutterday.com

Friday, August 28, 2009

Seaside



"Hug the shore; let others try the deep."

~ Virgil



More interpretations of Seaside at Photo Friday

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Skywatch Friday - Season 4 Episode 7



Casey Park - Morning Walk
Photo of the early sky taken with a cell phone yesterday.


More photos of the world wide skies of Skywatch Friday - Season 4 Episode 7 at

Thematic Photographic 64 - Big



Mr. Met


"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

~ Winston Churchill



More interpretations of Thematic Photographic 64 - Big at Thematic Photographic

Tranquil



"All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world,
but we don't.
And if our times are difficult and perplexing,
so are they challenging and filled with opportunity."

~ Robert Kennedy



More interpretations of Tranquil at Thursday Challenge

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Watery Wednesday #50



Down by the Old Mill Stream


"Down by the old mill stream where I first met you,
With your eyes of blue, dressed in gingham too,
It was there I knew that you loved me true,
You were sixteen, my village queen, by the old mill stream."

~ Tell Taylor, c1910



After breakfast at Raked South Garden Bed & Breakfast in the historic hamlet of Pultneyville, New York, took a walk and passed by this stream.

More photos of the world wide waterways for Watery Wednesday #50 at

Flying



Hot Air Balloon


"Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life."

~ Doug Coupland



More interpretations of Flying at Lens Day

Street



Farmer's Market


"Grab your coat, and get your hat,
Leave your worry on the doorstep
Just direct your feet,
To the sunny side of the street."

~ Dorothy Fields



More interpretations of Street at who do you love?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

White – Black



Adam 12


"If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'"

~ John Wayne



More interpretations of White – Black at

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Living Large



Trumpet creeper
(Campsis radicans)


"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."

~ Samuel Smiles



More interpretations of Living Large at

Saturday, August 22, 2009

'_FILLIN_'



"Make food a very incidental part of your life
by filling your life so full of meaningful things
that you'll hardly have time to think about food."

~ Peace Pilgrim



More interpretations of '_FILLIN_' at SeeItSunday.net

Passage of Time



Port of Oswego


"I keep sailing on in this middle passage.
I am sailing into the wind and the dark.
But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."

~ Arthur Ashe



More interpretations of Passage of Time at Unique’s Photo Challenge

Ripples



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

~ Scott Adams



More interpretations of Ripples at

House Guests



"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house
that he will not become a nuisance after three days."

~ Titus Maccius Plautus



More interpretations of House Guests at shutterday.com

Friday, August 21, 2009

School



Wiley Schoolhouse - circa 1874


"Up in the mornin' and out to school
The teacher is teachin' the golden rule"

~ Chuck Berry



More interpretations of School at Photo Friday

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Curved



Pultneyville


"My life is one long curve, full of turning points."

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau



More interpretations of Curved at Thursday Challenge

Skywatch Friday No. 58



Sodus Bay

1 sailboat - 2 birds


"To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee."

~Emily Dickinson



More photos of the world wide skies of Skywatch Friday No. 58 at

Watery Wednesday #49



Sodus Bay Lighthouse


"... where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect."

~ Francis Parkman



More photos of the world wide waterways for Watery Wednesday #49 at

Summer


Fair Haven State Park


"Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer."

~ Nat King Cole



More interpretations of Thematic Photographic 63 - Summer at Thematic Photographic

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Fashion



"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."

~ Yves Saint Laurent



More interpretations of Fashion at who do you love?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Wild – Tame



California Kingsnake

Raised in captivity - Used for demonstrations


"You were once wild here.
Don't let them tame you."

~ Isadora Duncan



More interpretations of Wild-Tame at Two 4 Tuesday

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Artificial



Carousel Center - Syracuse NY


"The artificial is always innocent."

~ Frank O'Hara



More interpretations of Artificial at

New Dawn



Francis Lake


"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."

~ Emily Dickinson



More interpretations of New Dawn at Unique’s Photo Challenge

Photography



"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."

~ Edward Steichen



More interpretations of Photography at shutterday.com

Misty



"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
stand shadowless like silence,
listening to silence."

~ Thomas Hood



More interpretations of Misty at

Selected by the judges as a Winner in “Misty” PhotoSunday challenge - Sunday, August 16th, 2009. Thank you for this honor.

Bike



"An intellectual is a man
who doesn't know how to park a bike."

~ Spiro T. Agnew



More interpretations of Bike at SeeItSunday.net

Friday, August 14, 2009

Young and Old



Old Riley & Young Tundra


"Age considers; youth ventures."

~ Rabindranath Tagore



More interpretations of Young and Old at Photo Friday

Thematic Photographic 62 - Abandoned



Urban Blight


"My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in."

~ Mark Webber



More interpretations of Thematic Photographic 62 - Abandoned at Thematic Photographic

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Skywatch Friday No. 57



Montezuma Audubon Center


"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge
of the unimaginative."

~ Oscar Wilde



More photos of the world wide skies of Skywatch Friday No. 57 at

Traffic



Spell It Without Any R's


"I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam."

~ Larry King



More interpretations of Traffic at Lens Day

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Rare



The Montezuma Audubon Center

California Kingsnake

Raised in Captivity


"Beauty is one of the rare things
which does not lead to doubt of God."

~ Jean Anouilh



More interpretations of Rare at Thursday Challenge

Watery Wednesday #48



The Montezuma Audubon Center

North Pond


"A fool can throw a stone in a pond
that 100 wise men can not get out."

~ Saul Bellow



More photos of the world wide waterways for Watery Wednesday #48 at

Museums



The Montezuma Audubon Center


"How does one measure the success of a museum?"

~ Paul Getty



More interpretations of Museums at who do you love?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bad Luck - Good Luck



Snake Eyes vs. Seven


"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along
and you're prepared for it. "

~ Denzel Washington



More interpretations of Good Luck / Bad Luck at Unique’s Photo Challenge

Hard - Soft



"And tears are heard within the harp I touch."

~ Petrarch



More interpretations of Hard - Soft at

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Past



"Whenever I think of the past,
it brings back so many memories."

~ Steven Wright



More interpretations of Past at

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Tree



Gnarly Tree Trunk


"A tree is an incomprehensible mystery."

~ Jim Woodring



More interpretations of Tree at SeeItSunday.net