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Tell me what you know :-)
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
water lily, sarah p duk gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
You come across an old typewriter, perhaps in a junk shop. No-one else is around. You have an opportunity to type a few words on the paper, anonymously. What will you write?
"..because nothing makes me happier
and nothing makes me sadder than you.."
Quotation from The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss
Texture from Kerstin Frank. Thank you.
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
- Sigmund Freud
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdSqk78nHw
WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT – TOM JONES
Looking for the waxwings
eating apples in the orchard
a big cat came to greet me
he was huge and very forward
He climbed the fence to meet me
to block my view of birds
he told me they were meant for him
hadn't anybody heard
I must admit he made my day
he made me belly laugh
I laughed until my ribs were aching
he told me I was daft
He climbed the fence like he was human
and not a cat at all
but he landed like a cat on all fours
told me a tale so tall
Once upon an eerie moment
he said he'd seen a ghost
while lurking in the nearby churchyard
scratching at a post
It was the spirit of a lady
who carried a lantern bright
she stooped to pick up falling conkers
her body clothed in white
her hair so long and straggly dangled
over her eyes and face
her finger nails were more like talons
that cut through her finest lace
“I think she was a witch”, he said
“and once I was her familiar,
so I hid behind the biggest headstone
in case she beckoned me to her.”
“Were you afraid?”, I asked the cat.
“No, not at all, not really ...
but I'd rather be a humble cat
chasing the waxwings freely.”
He looked well fed and was content
he loved to pose for his portrait
and I was sorry to say goodbye
but had I stayed I would be late
Happy Fence Friday to you my friends
and a Happy Caturday too
It's nice to be back and feeling happy
and it's lovely to see all of you! : 0)
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Quotation by Terri Guillemets.
Paris - LACPIXEL - 2021
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Quotation by Stanley Baldwin, 3 times British Prime Minister, speaking in 1932, although he was not PM at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bomber_will_always_get_through
Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
The face of the Olympian Hermes. Just a tiny part of the whole statue. The other parts, represented by Fujifilm boxes, you have to visualise yourself or, since his image is scattered over the world-wide web, you can look it up. Here, I am offering just a visual quotation. It refers to something larger and, at the end of the day, to a long narrative which, in itself, is invisible.
Fujifilm X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 (wide-open).
Happy Caturday 11.8.2018 "Quotations"
Neighbours Snoop dines like a real gentleman
"Dinner for one" is the most played skizze in german TV - no silvester without it:-)
It was listed in 1988 in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's most frequently repeated television production".
"That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born."
Vladimir Nabokov
There is something wonderful about finding the perfect quotation to accompany a favorite image.
HAPPY WINDOW WEDNESDAY(S) !!
In Alsace, most of the little window shutter "cut-outs" I have seen are heart-shaped.❤😍 I was amused to run across this set of old shutters with single 'quote - unquote' cut-outs, instead of hearts.😋
Location: An old dwelliing on a backstreet in Strasbourg, Alsace FR.
In my album: Dan's Windows.
“There’s a saying that goes, ‘People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.' OK. How about, ‘Nobody should throw stones’? That’s crappy behaviour. My policy is, ‘No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.’”
—Demetri Martin
OK, obviously this isn’t a house. It’s an igloo lounge where you can sit and rest if you want to get out of the cold. Anyway, I found the quotation above, and I thought it fit. :)
When you're not being able to do much there's always technology to make you have a dialogue with your many florals, which I did yesterday. Many quotes spring to mind, but I chose this one.
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and harmonious tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs to him" ~ August Rodin
153/366 pictures in 2020
Our Daily Challenge -Thoreau quotations
43/100x floral macros in 2020
“As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done."
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Poetography - The word/theme for the week is LEAF/LEAVES..
Font: Cafisch Script Pro
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a LEAF. By Rabindranath Tagore
"If there ever comes a day
Where we can't be together,
Keep me in your heart.
I'll stay there forever." -- Winnie the Pooh
"I don't want to imagine the time
when I have to stop playing."
~ Fernando Torres ~
I loved this quotation, not realizing it was referring to
Fernando Torres, a former Spanish professional football player,
now retired! So I wonder what he's imagining now!
Love grows when we work at it.
Love overlooks a multitudes of faults.
Love will bring us together.
Love finds away to get together.
Love will keep us together.
A tabletop creation.
This quotation of Amiels “Intimate Diary“ was spinning in my mind this morning.
Or in my words: “ The world in my Self and my Self in the world.“
Please: if anybody has an idea about the stripes in the neg, write it in the comments. Tanks.
Mamiya 7II 65mm
Foma without label, exposed as 200ASA
Sekonic L-758 D
Epson V-750
"Get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
— Congressman John R. Lewis (1940-2020).
A mural, in...
Decatur (Decatur Heights), Georgia, USA.
26 September 2020.
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Over cooked but I liked it ! better bigger on black.
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One more for the Poetography group: This week our topic is "age". I thought the quote went well with this image, since this is one of the things we are doing now that life has slowed down a bit :)
"Nothing is more enjoyable than a leisured old age." ~ Cicero
"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
— George Orwell ("1984")
...posted, the morning after the presidential election, upon pondering the horrors to be inflicted upon the United States of America in the months to come.
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I come across another funny Quotation on FaceBook and wanted to share this with you all. Have a fantastic day, everyone!
"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."
~~ Carl Sandburg
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine". Alan Turing
Movie: The Imitation Game
(I used a photo of a calculator keypad, taken today, to produce all the numbers shown. This was processed with one of my own textures from a photo of the sea as I wanted a dreamy effect.)
ODC "movie quote"
If You Remember the ’60s, You Really Weren’t There
Robin Williams? Charlie Fleischer? Paul Krassner? Paul Kantner? Grace Slick?
Dear Quotation Investigator: I lived through the 1960s, but the only thing I remember about it is the following quotation:
If you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.
Does anyone recall who said this?
Quote Investigator: Yes, many people think they remember who said this. The problem is they disagree: Paul Kantner, Robin Williams, Paul Krassner, Pete Townshend, Grace Slick, Timothy Leary, and many others have been credited with the saying. Of course, no one who was there really remembers.
The earliest citation currently known by QI for this expression was found by the outstanding researcher Stephen Goranson.
The cite is a two-line article in the Comedy column of the Los Angeles Times in 1982:
EXIT LINE: Comedian Charlie Fleischer observes: “If you remember the ’60s, you really weren’t there.”
Apparently it took all of the 1970s to recover from the 1960s and create the quip. Until further citations are located, Charles Fleischer gets the credit.