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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
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!
“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 John Steinbeck in "East of Eden". Lone flower by Nature. Frame by Perfect Photo Suite 9.
Quotation from, 'On seeing the graves of the forty-seven rônin at Sengakuji Temple' Anon.
Better viewed large
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).
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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Never heard of such a construction!
Found this during a recent trip to the Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum in Bristol, CT!
“We hope that, when the insects take over the world,
they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”
~ Bill Vaughn ~
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.”
Getting so old, so weak, barely peek
Yet beautiful still, until, the next fill
For a generation, a whole celebration,
"In quotation"
[] HaMeD!caL []
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.
Go bananas! 90/116
Many thanks to Louise Soe for the Groucho Marx quotation!
For six word story.
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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
'and i was speechless...'
my day consists of floral skirts and quotation marks.
outtakes in comments!
all sooc of course (:
"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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"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.
Mother Nature has the US in her grasp. I hope you are all warm and safe as this continues to pass through our lives.
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.
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!
“There is no darkness but ignorance”.
One can only hope that we do not move to the Orwellian sense of light, “to the place where there is no darkness”.
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