Friday, April 30, 2010

Skywatch Friday, Season 4, Episode 42


Lake Champlain Boat Launch
Westport NY

"“I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . ."
~William Butler Yeats


More photos of Season 4 Episode 42 at Skywatch Friday

Sexy


Stamen

"A good photographer can make you look incredible,
even when you're not feeling very sexy."
~Cindy Margolis


More interpretations of Sexy at Photo Friday

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Sepia Scenes #81

Tulips

"Bring the tulip and the rose,
While their brilliant beauty glows."
~Eliza Cook


More interpretations of Sepia Scenes #81 at Sepia Scenes

Face

My Buddy

"Turn your head look right out
None of these faces matter"
~Yeah Yeah Yeahs


More interpretations of Face at Thursday Challenge

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Wordless Wednesday - April 28th

Watery Wednesday #85

Chapel Pond
Keene, NY

An old pond
A frog jumps in
The sound of water
~ Basho, Matsuo


More photos for "Watery Wednesday" at Watery Wednesday #85

Outdoor Wednesday #68

Seward House
Auburn NY

Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal roundly ridiculed as "Seward's Folly".

"I can see Russia from my backyard..."
~Sarah Palin

Environment

Onondaga Lake
Bench on the West Shore Trail

"When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves."
~David Orr


More interpretations of Environment at Lens Day

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Red Tulips


Tulips

"What the heck are girls walking around
in Dutch outfits selling tulips...
what do they have to do with the brand?."
~Martha Stewart


More interpretations of Red at Ruby Tuesday

Tall – Short


Logan Monument
Auburn, New York


More interpretations of Tall-Short at

Monday, April 26, 2010

Yellow Tulip


First Tulips

"Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.."
~Shannon Hoon


More interpretations of Monday #66 at MellowYellowBadge

Dark


Dark-eyed Junco

"Character is what a man is in the dark."
~Dwight L. Moody


More interpretations of Dark at Moody Monday

Blue Mailbox


Adirondack Post Office

"The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives.
When you have lived to my age,
you will begin to think letters are never worth
going through the rain for."
~Jane Austen


More interpretations of Post Office at

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Awesome

Pine Siskin

"God gives every bird its food,
but He does not throw it into its nest."
~J.G. Holland


More interpretations of Awesome at

Scenic Sunday #93

Ausable River

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
~Thomas Fuller


More interpretations of Scenic Sunday #93 at Scenic Sunday

Shadow Shot Sunday #100


Sun Shadow

"Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe."
~Gabriela Mistral


More interpretations of Shadow Shot Sunday #100 at

Today's Flowers # 90


Daffodil

"Nature will not be admired by proxy."
~Winston Churchill


More interpretations of Today's Flowers # 90 at

Macro Flowers Saturday #7




Tulip

"The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I: "
~Isaac Watts


More interpretations of Macro Flowers Saturday at Macro Flowers Saturday badge 2

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Lines


City Hall Reflected

"Because if I don't know my lines,
I really don't know what I'm doing."
~Christopher Walken


More interpretations of Lines at Unique’s Photo Challenge

Sphere


Moose

"An artist's sphere of influence is the world."
~Carl Maria von Weber


More interpretations of Sphere at Macroday

Addiction


Rock-n-Roll

"It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it."
~Ken Hensley


More interpretations of Addiction at

Friday, April 23, 2010

Skywatch Friday, Season 4, Episode 41

Syracuse NY


More photos of Season 4 Episode 41 at Skywatch Friday

Sunshine


"Sunshine came softly..."
~Donovan


More interpretations of Sunshine at Photo Friday

Thursday, April 22, 2010

4/21/10 - Window Views and doors too!


Theodore Willard Case's Laboratory
Behind his home, the former Willard Mansion, now the Cayuga Museum.
Theodore Willard Case is credited with inventing "talking pictures."


More interpretations at Window Views...and Doors, Too!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Wordless Wednesday - April 21st



More photos at Wordless Wednesday for April 21th

Watery Wednesday #84


Gillie Lake

"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. 
It is earth's eye;
looking into which the beholder measures
the depth of his own nature. "
~Henry David Thoreau


More photos for "Watery Wednesday" at Watery Wednesday #84

Outdoor Wednesday #67

Happy Earth Day 2010



"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. 
We are all crew."
~Marshall McLuhan


More photos for “Outdoor Wednesday” at

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Red trillium


Stinking Benjamin

"How strange that Nature does not knock,
and yet does not intrude!"
~Emily Dickinson


More interpretations of Red at Ruby Tuesday

Wet – Dry


Eastern Skunk Cabbage

"I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth."
~William Faulkner


More interpretations of Wet-Dry at

Monday, April 19, 2010

Nostalgic


All-Night Diner

"The diner is everybody's kitchen."
~Richard Gutman


More interpretations of Nostalgic at Moody Monday

Mellow Yellow Monday #65


Yellow Adirondack Chairs

"People buy a chair,
and they don't really care who designed it."
~ Arne Jacobsen


More interpretations of Monday #65 at MellowYellowBadge

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Eastern Skunk Cabbage


Symplocarpus foetidus


More photos for Photo Time at

Today's Flowers # 89


Grape Hyacinth

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
~Carl Sandburg


More interpretations of Today's Flowers # 89 at

Shoes


First Pair

"Art is like baby shoes.
When you coat them with gold,
they can no longer be worn."
~John Updike


More interpretations of Shoes at SeeItSunday.net

Scenic Sunday 92


Spring Meandering

"We definitely have a plan in mind,
but at the same time,
maybe things will meander,
and we're open to that, too."
~Craig Thomas


More interpretations of Scenic Sunday #92 at Scenic Sunday