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Tell me what you know :-)
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
water lily, sarah p duk gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Taken for Caturday theme quotations. The quote is: When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day. Lynda Resnick
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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“Too many freeways, too much sun,
too much abnormality taken normally,
too many pink stucco houses and pink stucco consciences.”
~ Clancy Sigal ~
Not sure I understand the meaning of the Sigal quotation,
but it sure does work with this crazy image!
oh yeah . . . another junk yard find!
Quotation by Terri Guillemets.
Paris - LACPIXEL - 2021
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"Give yourself a gift: the present moment."
Marcus Aurelius
While walking along the road, I noticed the smallest flowers bending in the breeze. The whole plant was no larger than my smallest finger. I was stunned to see the beauty of its form once it was at eye level.
The older I become, the more I appreciate not only the rich beauty of our natural world, but also the wise words of philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius. An appreciation of our time spent on this Earth is often overlooked in the search for more exciting moments. Thus I offer this tiny flower and some wise words to take you through the day.
A quotation from George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart. MacDonald wrote plenty of fantasy literature himself, now all public domain, such as the Curdie books, Lilith and Phantastes. Thanks for looking! The background graphic is from Pixabay, and could be used in this way.
You are invited to look at my galleries, which include a gallery of graphics related to George MacDonald, and 14 Fantasy galleries, all by artists other than me.
Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
There are times two quotations are better than one.
"Let's build bridges, not walls."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge."
Montgomery Schuyler
This image captured part of the Astoria-Megler Bridge a massive, 4.1-mile-long steel truss bridge connecting Astoria, Oregon, and Washington, carrying U.S. Route 101 over the Columbia River, notable as the longest continuous truss bridge in North America and a key part of the US highway system, replacing a ferry when it opened in 1966.
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).
A lovely German couple sit in companionable silence within the grounds of the Summer home of Agatha Christie. The quotation is from the front of her book, Kollaps (Collapse) : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, who identifies five factors that contribute to collapse : climate change, hostile neighbours, collapse of essential trading partners, environmental problems, and the society's response to the foregoing four factors. It was nice to see these two reading and not on iPhone's or tablets. I found it very refreshing and gives me hope for the world … I don't know why, but it just did. They had no need to be openly demonstrative. Their love was tangible. They seemed, to me, to be the epitome of something that the world is rapidly losing and I wanted to capture the essence of that. I find that, for me, I can rarely relax and be myself except in the silence of my own company or when I am in nature. For me the world is often too big; too noisy; too crowded and overwhelming. Wish that there was none of the problems covered in this lady's book. How calm she seems while reading about such chaos. I remember my father saying to never judge a book by it's cover. Perhaps she has inner turmoil, but somehow I do not think so and actually I really hope her life is every bit as beautiful as I perceived it to be and his too.
“I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said; Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stampt on these lifeless things,
The hand that mockt them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
- “Ozymandias”, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkFiuIkcPI
À Toi - Joe Dassin "Alain Delon and Dalila"
We return to innocence
like children we play in the sun
we sit in companionable silence
our two hearts so close as if our life has still not yet begun
we read and play out in our heads
the story of our lives
the love that we will find
and the memories we will make will help us to survive
we may go our separate ways
or we may stay together no matter what
for now the sun is overhead and heady
makes us dizzy
drink some fizzy
orange or lemonade will keep us steady
I do not know if you are ready
but I am … take baby steps
walk with me along the sand
love is in us and beside us
I feel it so deeply but will you ever understand
it is written in the stars
I write it echoing in the sand
I reach out to touch your cheek
we are closer now; walking hand in hand
but for now we have reverted back
to the companionable silence of before
so comfortable in our own skins
we do not search for answers or look towards the open door
we do not see it closing
we do not know if time is short or long
we only know the rhythm rising in us
that beats so loudly; that gives rise to our eternal song
we dance to our own tune
sometimes we dance apart
but it does not matter because we are sure
of this mutual feeling that is mirrored deep within our hearts
we travelled far; we travelled wide
sometimes together; sometimes apart
none of this matters now
all that matters is what is here
this perfect moment; this is our time
the poets wrote of it long ago
they wrote in couplets; they wrote in rhyme
and here we are; we are the living proof
that nothing really matters except
to be within this loving moment
to live and love
to live
to love
to rise above all things
to give thanks to heaven above
we found each other
we lost each other
we refound what we had lost with ease
what is written will always come to be
as long as I have you
as long as you have me
as long as we have Faith
as long as we have each other
as long as we believe.
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A Cape blue waterlily (Nymphaea capensis) blooms in an autumn-leaf festooned pond. What was it doing here, wild and untended, so far afield?
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
9 November 2024.
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A quotation from Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) - who probably knew a thing or two about courage.
Texture from Cheryl Tarrant. Thank you.
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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For Poetography group: Some topics speak to me more than others and this week is a good example. Our word is leaf, or leaves.
They started cutting down the forest behind our house yesterday to build homes. I hoped this wouldn't happen too soon even though we were told to anticipate it. It's still tough.
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I LOVE QUOTATIONS!
I LOVE the way other people reinforce my thoughts about life.
I LOVE when my photos connect with these thoughts.
Here is a smorgasbord of fun thoughts on DIRECTION ~
“I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” ~ Anna Louise Strong ~
BUT . . .
“You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time.” ~ anon ~
HOWEVER, Goethe says:
“I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
SO REMEMBER TO:
“Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you'll never have to worry about your feet.”
with all of this being said, I still love the philosophical thoughts of Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Petite Prince) ~
“A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
"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!
We live a few minutes drive from a little patch of woodland. It's part of Palmer's Rough, a nature reserve and recreation ground, and a lovely place to walk the dog, take photographs and escape for a while from the business and busyness of life.
Go bananas! 90/116
Many thanks to Louise Soe for the Groucho Marx quotation!
For six word story.
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"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!
Bulbs with quotation.
(No tengo ningún miedo a ganar la Primitiva, y si es con bote, menos. Mi familia y amigos se iban a enterar, a pesar de Hacienda).
'and i was speechless...'
my day consists of floral skirts and quotation marks.
outtakes in comments!
all sooc of course (:
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
- Baha'u'llah
"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"