Tell me what you know :-)

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

water lily, sarah p duk gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth :-)

Robert Byrne, "Sources, References, and Notes," The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1984

HGGT! HBW!

zinnia, sarah p duke 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

Perdonatemi, ma -come si sa- la carne è debole e l'ego, qualche volta- prende il sopravvento!

[Foto di Paolo Mezzetti]

Forgive me ... but the flesh is weak and the ego -sometimes- takes over!

Spring leaves and wildflowers were popping out everywhere we hiked.

a quotation:

"This is the most beautiful place on earth.

There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even,

for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio, or Rome

--there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment."

Edward Abbey

"Desert Solitaire"

"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."

William Allen White

Whenever I link a quotation to one of my images, I am compelled to learn about the author of said quote. If you are interested in such things, you might want to know this about the author...

"William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death, White became a spokesman for middle America.

At a 1937 banquet held in his honor by the Kansas Editorial Association, he was called "the most loved and most distinguished member" of the Kansas press."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_White

The gulls seem to be taking it easy!

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlh-ezKeOw

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE – ELVIS PRESLEY

Sometimes in life we come full circle

I see a footprint of my beginning

and here I am back at the start

I see the people who tried to stop me winning

but I rise above them; and leave them far behind

I draw a line in shifting, whispering grains of sand

and something deep inside me drives me on

no looking back; I am complete; I understand

sometimes in life we cannot win them over

it's not our job; it's for a greater Hand

and He will guide me on my journey

bring me safely to the shore

where angels sing; rejoice and hold me

and I will not be frightened any more

He sees in us the pain; the human burden

He sees the weight that life and people bring

He knows how much; He knows and He is certain

He will not give us more than we can take

so that in our hearts and souls we'll always sing

and when at last our cup is brimming over

He lays his Hand upon our heads and soothes our brow

and we feel the greatest love that ever found us

and we are comforted and lighter; it is a miracle somehow

and once more we are peaceful

finding joy in simple things

as darkness; shadows and all our plights

are left behind and taken care of;

whisked away on angel's wings

and soon the lines of strain are smoothed; not furrowed

as clouds reveal the stars of wonder and ethereal light

and we begin to live at last the ever after; forget tomorrow

this moment we exist; and in this moment

I am complete; I am content right here, right now.

- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author

Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission

My artwork is a compilation of 4 of my photographs.

Smile on Saturday - Quote

Words - Our Daily Challenge

This quotation comes from the book New Orleans: Life in an Epic City, edited by Mary Fitzpatrick

All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.

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).

Kelly's second favorite quotation is: "Caturday: Preferred by Cats 2 to 1"

Quotation from, 'On seeing the graves of the forty-seven rônin at Sengakuji Temple' Anon.

Better viewed large

"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.

“In the midst of darkness, light persists.”

– Mahatma Gandhi in a speech delivered in 1947

digital art

Thoreau: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

307/365 pictures in 2019

Thoreau quotation - Our Daily Challenge

Let it glow - Smile on Saturday

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...just mystification.

Reflection on a big pond around the buildings,

Infineon Technologies AG

is in 1999 by spinning off the semiconductor business of Siemens AG through a public offering (IPO) in 2000, this high technology company headquartered Neubiberg near Munich,

Bavaria, Germany

@ Wikipedia

Quotation

A quotation from Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) - who probably knew a thing or two about courage.

Texture from Cheryl Tarrant. Thank you.

Link to my website - But Is It Art?

"Camouflage is a game we all like to play,

but our secrets are as surely revealed

by what we want to seem to be

as by what we want to conceal."

~ Russell Lynes ~

Interesting, I had no idea who was famous for this quotation until

I looked up Russell Lynes in Wikipedia and discovered

he was "an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine."

You learn something new every day!

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."

All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.

"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

Durham mural

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.”

...to rob us of our former selves. (Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means' )

Rose and quotation Prem Rawat

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.

"I remember a hundred lovely lakes,

and recall the fragrant breath of pine

and fir and cedar and poplar trees.

The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk,

opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets."

~ Hamlin Garland ~

Which came first? The fiber arts tassel or the verse?

Serendipitously the short, poetic composition popped up and brought even more meaning, surprise and delight as it accented the opalescent and saffron beads which had been strung on silken threads upon the dangle, attached to a charm of golden pine cones!

Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday everyone!

Words of wisdom

Quotation by Diane Marini

Model: Krystal Smith

I come across another funny Quotation on FaceBook and wanted to share this with you all. Have a fantastic day, everyone!

'and i was speechless...'

my day consists of floral skirts and quotation marks.

outtakes in comments!

all sooc of course (:

seen in Higashi Nippori, Tokyo

For the Smile on Saturday group, Topic: quote.

quotation by Vartan Gregorian

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2nd day of midterms

not bad

danny made lunch for me and nicole :3

i really like this photo

especially without the text

but the text is true and appropriate so i left it

Also known as Cranesbill because of it's beak like seed capsule.

Notice the oak tree catkins on the leaves. I have never seen so many of these before. They are everywhere!

"A single oak tree produces both male and female flowers. The male flowers are tiny yellow structures that grow along a slender stalk. The stalked structure is called a catkin. The stalk with its flowers looks a bit like a yellow worm dangling from the tips of the oak branches. The female flowers are small pink to red structures that are also located near the twig tip. The male flowers produce pollen which is carried by wind to female flowers, often on a different tree. The amount of pollen produced by a large oak tree is enormous and the flowers continue producing pollen for several weeks. Unlike flowers that are pollinated by bees or other animals, the pollen of oaks floats freely in the air and is inhaled by people. Many people are allergic to oak pollen and the large amounts and long duration of oak pollen production can make oaks one of the more serious spring allergens."

~ University Of Mount Union

Unfortunately, I am one of those with an allergy to oak pollen.

Quotations from Augustine of Hippo, asking for God's enlightenment. The second quote refers to:

James 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. (World English Bible, public domain.)

Thanks for looking!

As mentioned in my previous post, I'm rereading a book on writing and life by Anne Lamott.

In it she frequently mentions the challenge of growing up being an oddball, but because of her laughter, she fit in.

So today, the following quotation seems appropriate to accompany the cement picnic table and benches!

“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles,

and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.”

~ Cyril Connolly ~

A few hours earlier this long rubber fisherman's walkway had been flying through the air, tossed around by the strong winds blowing across Dungeness beach. It came to rest in this serendipitous form and just had to be photographed!