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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

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.

 

Link to my website - But Is It Art?

“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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“You don't have to travel around the world

to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Quotation by Terri Guillemets.

 

Paris - LACPIXEL - 2021

 

Fluidr

 

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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

 

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

The gulls seem to be taking it easy!

Quotation by John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.

“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.

They flickered out saying:

"It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”

― Carl Sandburg

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).

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

 

Better viewed large

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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“In the midst of darkness, light persists.”

 

– Mahatma Gandhi in a speech delivered in 1947

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

"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.

“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

Quotation from Shrek by Donkey! I liked the tiny flecks of colour and patterning of the Sedimentary layers.

Boulders and Rockpools on the beach at Mains of Slains Farm, the North Sea Coast Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

"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!

  

"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 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' )

"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!

 

Staatstheater gespiegelt im Eckensee, Stuttgart

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

Quotation by Diane Marini

 

Model: Krystal Smith

quotation: W.C. Fields

 

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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).

Alley entrance of a commercial building in El Cajon, California.

'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

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

 

- Baha'u'llah

quotation: W.C. Fields

 

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For the Smile on Saturday group, Topic: quote.

"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"

quotation by Vartan Gregorian

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